If LSU wants to wrap up the school’s seventh College World Series championship, it would probably be OK with the Tigers’ fan base if they went ahead and took care of it Sunday afternoon.

How much more anxiety can they take? At some point some of those poor folks are going to need to exhale before they all turn blue.

And that apparently isn’t going to be possible until this latest trip to Omaha is in the books. Nobody in purple and gold, it appears, has taken a easy breath since the Tigers fell into the losers’ bracket.

Saturday’s 4-3 win over Florida was just more of the same.

Wrapping up the CWS in straight sets today would be the quick, slick and efficient way to go about it.

But none of that apparently is in LSU’s vocabulary, not this trip.

If we’ve learned nothing else in what seems like a month’s worth of wide-eyed, extra-inning Omaha anxiety and unlikely heroes, it’s to never count these Tigers out.

Never — but, oh no, don’t expect anything to come easy, let alone drama-free.

For much of Saturday, the Tigers seemed to be intent on wasting one of the best pitching performances Omaha will ever see — and it didn’t even involve Paul Skenes.

Instead it was Ty Floyd steady mowing down Gators with 17 strike outs in eight innings, a CWS record for the championship round.

And yet until Cade Beloso stepped up with his second game-winning home run, the game remained not only in doubt, Floyd’s dominant masterpiece didn’t even get the decision.

That’s the kind of stuff going on in what many are calling the best College World Series in memory.

And it’s not over yet

By all means watch today. LSU looks more and more like the best team in Omaha now. But uncover your eyes at your own risk.

It’s advantage LSU, after a 4-3 11th inning victory over Florida in the championship round of the CWS.

Don’t feel bad if you’re still hiding under the bed.

The final LSU instigator, Beloso, didn’t see the final out. After staring down Florida closer Brandon Neely and sweet-stroking the home run that finally broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the 11th, guess what? He couldn’t bear to watch the bottom of the inning either. He was hiding in the LSU dugout’s restroom, pacing back forth but not daring to peek until it was safe to celebrate. Fortunately, he’s the designated hitter and the Tigers managed to get the final three outs with Beloso in hiding.

But one more victory — and at this stage I won’t even speculate on how it might come about — and LSU will bring home another trophy, the first since 2009. 

Nothing that happened Saturday suggested that the Tigers can coast through anything.

It wasn’t so much that LSU’s Saturday shenanigans  defied description or logic. No, the longer this stomach-grinder dragged on and into extra innings, the more it almost seemed … well, mathematically impossible for LSU.

How was LSU not winning by 5-6 runs, minimum? How were the Tigers actually trailing 3-2 until the top of the eighth when they got another Tommy “Tanks” White bomb just to get into extra innings?

 The Tigers also had to have the obligatory defensive jaw-dropper that saved the game when it looked over before your very eyes, this time a leaping catch by leftfielder Josh Pearson. It only came with what would have been the walk-off winning run streaking toward home in the bottom of the ninth.

Without that, LSU would have lost a game that logic suggested it should be running away with.

Maybe not running, actually. There was plenty of loitering on the basepaths with a steady stream of Tigers dispatched to and parked on various bases.

And there they mostly stayed — 17 runners were stranded in the 11 innings.

Everywhere you looked those yellow jerseys were dancing around.

For that matter, with so many baserunners constanly clogging up the paths, how was it possible for the Tigers to hit three home runs — Gavin Dugas led off the second with his second of the CWS — and yet none of them come with any teammates aboard?

Well, of course that would have been the easy way to put some distance between themselves and the Gators.

Again, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

But you do have to like the Tigers position right now.