The SEC conference schedule was released earlier this week, revealing some big-time games from March through the season’s conclusion in May when the SEC tournament begins. Here are the top five matchups fans will see this season, which will be must-watch on TV for everyone who watches.
These two SEC heavyweights will clash on March 28-30 in Nashville in some big games with two teams who have been in the upper echelon of SEC baseball royalty. Both programs have been built with national championship standards.
The big implication of this series is that the pitching on both sides will be phenomenal. Vanderbilt features a highly regarded pitching prospect in J.D. Thompson and many other big-time arms in players like Brennan Seiber and Georgetown transfer Cody Bowker. Arkansas can throw the same thing at the Commodores with pitching depth of their own in East Carolina transfer Zach Root, returning veteran Will McEntire, and southpaw Parker Coil.
This series can offer some of the best pitching we’ve seen in any weekend series during conference play.
The two newcomers to the SEC will meet during conference plays on the final weekend of May 15-17 to square off in a college sports rivalry that runs deep everywhere. The two teams met last season at L. Dale Micthell Baseball Park in Norman, where the Texas Longhorns took two of the three games.
The two teams have the right pieces in place to be competitive within the SEC and against each other again in 2025. The Oklahoma Sooners had the best offense in the Big 12 with a .311 team batting average and returned two great hitters, Easton Carmichael and Jaxon Willits. Texas was a top-five team in the Big 12 in both hitting and pitching and returned high-profile players like Jalin Flores, who hit 18 home runs with a .340 batting average a season ago.
This matchup always seems to deliver, no matter the sport. Now, SEC fans will get to experience it for the first time during the final weekend of SEC play before postseason play begins.
This matchup is new blood versus old blood, as the reigning national champion Tennessee Volunteers have solidified themselves as the new program to run the college baseball world. On April 25, they will head to Baton Rouge to take on the LSU Tigers in Alex Box Stadium in a premier weekend series that is a rematch of the 2024 SEC Tournament Championship.
The two teams met before the Volunteers beat them in the SEC title game in Knoxville at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. LSU was swept in three games during what was a rough stretch of conference play for the Tigers, who finished with a 13-17 record in the SEC.
However, this LSU team is reloaded for next season after head coach Jay Johnson landed the number one overall transfer portal class. This class features some great hitters, like Luis Hernandez from Indiana State and Chris Stanfield from Auburn. They also bring back a huge power bat in Jared Jones.
With the home crowd on their side, LSU will take on Tennessee in what is set to be one of the best SEC series of the season.
This is yet another example of two teams with championship aspirations going at it in a match that is sure to deliver some of the best college baseball from around the country. Texas A&M and Arkansas will meet from April 18-20 in a great rematch from a season ago, when the Aggies took two out of three from the Razorbacks in College Station at Blue Bell Park.
Arkansas will have home-field advantage this time at Baum-Walker Stadium in Fayetteville. They were incredible at home last season, with a 34-5 record.
These games will be all about Arkansas’ great pitching against the slew of hitters Texas A&M has. This includes possibly the best hitter in baseball, Jace Laviolette, who has the stock to be the number one overall pick in the 2025 MLB draft. This line of hitters also includes Gavin Grahovac, the reigning SEC Freshman of the Year.
This set of games will have everything, as the best pitching in the conference in Arkansas may be matched up against the best hitting in the conference in Texas A&M.
The number one matchup in conference play could be a rematch of last season’s national championship series as the Texas A&M Aggies head to Knoxville to face off against the Tennessee Volunteers.
Tennessee won two out of three games to win its first national title in school history against Texas A&M. However, the two teams did not meet during the regular season a year ago. This time, they will be inside Lindsey Nelson Stadium from April 4-6.
The Aggies hitting will be unmatched, but Tennessee has the style of offense and returners to go toe-to-toe with this Texas A&M team. Shortstop Dean Curley and centerfielder Hunter Ensley are the two big returning starters from last season’s national championship squad who combined 24 home runs a season ago. They also brought in two talented power bats from the transfer portal, Andrew Fischer from Ole Miss and Gavin Kilen from Louisville, who both hit 10+ home runs last season.
This series is set to be fireworks and can bring some of the best baseball we will see all season in the NCAA. Two teams who met in the national championship last season hit a lot of home runs.
SEC Schedule Release: 2025 SEC Conference Schedule
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Photo Credit: A general view of the SEC logo and “It Just Means More” signage during the 2024 SEC Baseball Tournament championship game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the LSU Tigers on May 26, 2024 at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
