We’re through the super regionals, and have a CWS field. Here’s a recap of the supers and a preview of the CWS field.
Resource links to help with this:
- Your final top 25 heading into the post-season according to d1baseball, baseballamerica, and usatoday Coaches poll.
- WarrenNolan’s RPI rankings (Note: these are dynamic and change with every game, so a team’s RPI two weeks ago won’t match what it is now).
- Here’s D1Baseball.com’s Tournament Central, my favorite place to track the tourney.
- Here’s the NCAA.com field of 64 Bracket with some great data points at NCAA.com
First, lets recap the Supers.
- #16 West Virginia v Cal Poly: West Virginia absolutely pulverized Cal Poly, winning 12-2 and 17-1 to get to Omaha and sing Bob Denver one more time with the crowd.
- Troy v Arkansas Little Rock: Troy made fast work of A-LR, winning 12-2 and 7-2 to get to Omaha in a dream.
- #5 North Carolina v Southern California: USC came to hit, winning the first game before UNC pulled it back to force the decider. In the 3rd game, UNC scored once in the 8th and twice in the 9th to walk it off.
- #4 Auburn vs Ole Miss: Ole Miss won two close games on the road to head to Omaha.
- #3 Georgia vs #14 Mississippi State: Georgia won a ridiculous 13-12 game to open the Super Regional, then held on for an 11-9 win to secure Omaha.
- #6 Texas vs #11 Oregon: Texas blew away Oregon to open the super regional, then scored twice in the 8th to take the lead and made it stick to get to Omaha.
- #7 Alabama vs St. Johns: Alabama blanked St. Johns to open the series, then beat them 7-2 in a suspended match to move on.
- #15 Kansas vs Oklahoma: Oklahoma blew out Kansas 8-1 to open, t hen destroyed them again 13-2 in the suspended 2nd game to move on.
Super Regional Predictions versus Actuals
- predicted: WVA, Troy, UNC, Auburn, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma
- actuals: WVA, Troy, UNC, Ole Miss, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma
Prediction summary: 7 for 8. Only missed Ole Miss vs Auburn
Stats/Observations of the 8 Super Regionals.
- 6 out of 8 Super Regional Hosts to advance. Kansas and Auburn missed.
- Only 1 regionals went to the 3rd/deciding game; the UNC-USC matchup.
- Conference Breakdown of the eight Advancers:
- SEC: 5 of the 8
- ACC: 1: UNC
- Sun Belt: 1 Troy
- Big12: 1 West Virginia
Fun fact: not one team from 2025’s CWS field made it back to Omaha. Last year’s field was: Arizona, Arkansas, Coastal Carolina, Louisville, LSU, Murray State, Oregon State, and UCLA. Not only did none of these 8 return … none of them even made it back to a Super Regional! In fact, half of them didn’t even make the 2026 field of 64 (Arizona, Louisville, Murray State, and LSU, which didn’t make the field for the first time since 2011). I heard an interesting theory as to why, and it relates to the transfer portal. The transfer portal is open, right now, while the best 8 teams in the country and all their coaches are in Omaha trying to win a national title. Instead of recruiting and talking to transfer candidates for next year’s team, they’re preparing for one last tournament. So they’re at a massive disadvantage to players who may take the first “good” offer they get.
It seems like a simple fix: keep the transfer portal closed until the season is over. Duh.
So, your 2026 CWS Field (with original national seeds driving the teams):
- Group 1 (1,4,5,8): #16 West Virginia, Troy, #5 North Carolina, Ole Miss
- Group 2 (2,3,6,7): #3 Georgia, #6 Texas, #7 Alabama, Oklahoma
Once again, its a really, really lopsided CWS. Group 2 is stacked with three national seeds and four teams from the SEC, while group A has just one National seed and the random Troy team that made it.
RPIs of the CWS field: Here’s the Live/updated RPI of the field, plus the pre-CWS tournament RPI for those teams who were seeds.
- #3 Georgia: #5 (started #7)
- #5 UNC: #4 (started #4)
- #6 Texas #3 (started #5)
- #7 Alabama #6 (started #6)
- #16 West Virginia: #14 (started #17)
- Ole Miss #9 (started #13)
- Oklahoma #16 (was #20)
- Troy #26 (was #28)
We’re still looking at a pretty strong CWS field, with four teams out of the top 6 in RPI still playing.
Prospect Watch in the Super Regionals:
There were so few 1st rounders competing in the Super Regionals as compared to years’ past that I didn’t even bother to do this section this year.
My CWS Predictions
Top half: I don’t like how UNC struggled so i’m tempted to say Ole Miss, but they’ll have an easier 1st round matchup against Troy, which may serve them well. I’m still gonna say Ole Miss.
Bottom Half: Well, with all four teams in the SEC, we have some history from the regular season. Georgia-Oklahoma in game 1; they did not meet in the regular season, so advantage GA. Texas beat Alabama 2 out of 3 in a home series, so advantage Texas. Then, Georgia/Texas didn’t meet either, so advantage GA again. That puts Georgia in the title game. Alabama won 2 of 3 at Oklahoma earlier this year, so advantage to them in the first elimination game. Then Alabama would play Texas again, so i’m thinking its Georgia-Texas in the regional final.
Final: Georgia over Ole Miss.