No teams from 2025 College World Series make Super Regionals in 2026
By Andrew Olson
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The College World Series will not have any returning teams this year. All 8 teams from last year’s CWS field were officially out before the completion of the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
One of the big stories of the 2026 college baseball season is that defending national champion LSU did not make the field of 64. LSU wasn’t alone, as 3 other 2025 CWS teams missed the 2026 tourney: Arizona, Louisville and Murray State.
That left 4 teams seeking to go back to Omaha this year. All 4 were out of the tournament by Sunday evening.
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Coastal Carolina, which faced LSU last year in the CWS Finals, went 0-2 in the Tallahassee Regional. UCLA was this year’s No. 1 national seed, but dropped its opening game (a first since the NCAA Tournament expanded in 1999) and could not make it out of the loser’s bracket. Arkansas and Oklahoma State fell in regional finals as 2-seeds.
For the first time in the super regional era, since 1999, all 8 teams from the previous CWS failed to reach super regionals.
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The SEC has won the last 6 national titles, dating back to Vanderbilt in 2019. Twelve SEC teams made the 2026 tournament, with Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi State and Ole Miss having already advanced to Super Regionals. Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Texas A&M can advance with wins in Monday’s games.
The SEC is guaranteed at least one team in this year’s College World Series, as the Athens Super Regional features No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 14 Mississippi State.
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Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
