When Florida arrived in Omaha last week, the focus was on the SEC regular-season champion’s star power.

Now, with Florida 1 win from the College World Series finals, the discussion has shifted to Florida’s sterling supporting cast.

That’s what happens when your two biggest stars are 2-for-Omaha.

Jac Caglianone, the Golden Spikes Award finalist and 2-way star who leads the nation in home runs (31) and is a filthy pitcher with an opponent batting average against of .184, the 3rd-lowest in Omaha, was swarmed by media at Florida’s open media session. Already a cult hero whose nickname, “Jactani,” is a nod to Shohei Ohtani, what better stage than Omaha for Caglianone to become a household name?

Through 2 games, it hasn’t worked that way. The Gators’ first baseman is 1-for-8 in Omaha with 3 strikeouts.

The big lefty will have a chance to turn his tournament around Wednesday when he takes the mound against TCU (2 PM, ESPN) as the Gators seek to lock up their 4th CWS Finals trip since 2005.

But Caglianone might not have this opportunity without surprise star turns from the likes of platooning outfielder Ty Evans ripping home runs in back-to-back contests, helping Florida grind out 1 run wins over 7 seed Virginia and this year’s Cinderella, Oral Roberts.

Evans’ first run keyed a comeback win over Virginia that included the lone hit in the CWS from Florida’s other superstar, Wyatt Langford.

Destined to be a top 3 pick in next month’s Major League Baseball Draft, Langford is 1-for-Omaha, with a strikeout and only 2 other instances of contact with an exit velocity over 100 miles per hour. Yes, Langford’s game-tying blast against the Hoos was a moonshot that almost reached the Missouri River:

But considering Langford led the SEC in average exit velocity and ranked No. 2 in batting average (behind fellow future top 3 MLB pick, Dylan Crews of LSU), a 1-for-7 Omaha isn’t exactly what Florida had in mind when it drew up a blueprint to reach the CWS Finals.

Good thing for Langford he’s been picked up by the likes of catcher BT Riopelle, who has reached base 5 times and scored 3 of Florida’s 11 runs in Omaha. Riopelle, who took the SEC Tournament by storm with a gargantuan walk-off blast to beat Alabama, has kept it humming in Omaha, hitting a home run against Virginia and plating a key run in Florida’s win over Oral Roberts. Riopelle, who would be drafted next month had he not made it clear he’s giving up baseball for a career in finance, which he’ll begin in July, is playing the final baseball games of his life. Whether Langford or Caglianone start hitting or squander their moment in Omaha, Riopelle is leaving everything he has on Charles Schwab Field.

One Florida star who has been money is All-American closer Brandon Neely. The Florida stopper picked up the win over Virginia with 2 1/3 innings of quality work and was 1 inning into shutting the door on Oral Roberts when Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan forgot how many mound visits the Gators had left — or rather, didn’t have left.

Forced to remove the program’s best closer since Darren O’Day from the College World Series late, it was Florida freshman Cade Fisher who delivered, pitching his way out of a bases loaded jam to give Florida just its 4th 2-0 start at a CWS in school history.

Fisher and Florida have been aided in both games by another freshman, big Luke Heyman, who beat Virginia with a walk-off sacrifice fly in Game 1and followed with a bomb to help the Gators beat Oral Roberts in Game 2.

Heyman, a member of the All-SEC Freshman team who hit a solid .326 with 12 home runs, has 2 hits, 3 RBIs, a walk and 0 strikeouts in 7 at-bats in Omaha. Because he’s come through in the clutch, Florida has weathered a quiet start to the CWS from the superstars who commanded the media spotlight when the Gators got here.

Florida’s stars haven’t all been snuffed out, of course.

Hurston Waldrep, a likely top-20 pick next month, was magnificent Sunday night, tossing 6 innings of 1-run baseball with 12 strikeouts. In 3 NCAA Tournament starts, Waldrep has been aces, allowing just 2 earned runs in 21 innings pitched with 37 strikeouts. If the Gators win 1 of the next 2 against TCU, Waldrep will get 1 more start in a Florida uniform, and it will come in the best-of-3 finals.

Before the Super Regionals, I wrote that the Gators may have the most complete team in the field, even if they lacked the supernova talent of LSU or the rotation of Wake Forest. (Those 2 will battle Wednesday — and maybe again Thursday — for the right to reach the finals.) The Gators have proven how complete they are in 2 wins in Omaha, conquering outstanding opponents despite getting little from their biggest bats. That portends well for Florida’s hopes to win a national championship should Langford and Caglianone start pounding baseballs the way they did in the regular season.

What’s remarkable about this Gators team is that even if Langford and Caglianone don’t wake up, Florida has the pieces to find ways to win.

That’s what champions do, and that’s why Florida is 3 wins from another national title.