{"id":19675,"date":"2026-06-23T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19675"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:39:40","slug":"2026-cws-final-oklahoma-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19675","title":{"rendered":"2026 CWS Final: Oklahoma Wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oklahoma-2026-cws-champs-dogpile.jpg 1943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Requisite Dogpile picture.  Photo courtesy of NCAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past weekend Oklahoma took on UNC in the CWS finals to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a quick game by game recap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-55aff6ad-eecb-4d75-9d1c-8b185052e96b\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Game 1: Oklahoma got to UNC&#8217;s starter Jason Nicaro fast, knocking him out in the 4th and building a 7-3 lead they wouldn&#8217;t give up.  Their own starter Cord Rager settled down after giving up 3 in the first to keep his team in the game, and Oklahoma&#8217;s Jaxon Willits (brother of Eli) hit 4th for the sooners and helped drive the offense.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game 2: OK scored early, but UNC hung in and got 5 one-hit shutout innings from its star long reliever Glauber, which gave the offense time to win the game 6-2 and send it to the Monday finale.  UNC let their starter Xander Mercurious throw FIFTY (50) pitches in the third inning&#8230; and then brought him back out for the 4th!  Yeah, that&#8217;s not good.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game 3: Oklahama&#8217;s offense just would not stop, knocking out UNC arm after arm and eventually winning by the lopsided score of 13-2 to win the national title.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-fb42780e-bb64-4344-809e-2313517cdee8\"><strong>Your 2026 College World Series Champion<\/strong>: Oklahoma Sooners<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final list of all 2026 CWS coverage this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CWS Finals recap: this post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19655\">Omaha Group Recap and CWS Final preview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19641\">Super Regionals Recap and CWS Field Preview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19613\">Regional Recap and Super Regional Preview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19564\">Field of 64 announcement and Regional preview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s some links to past years of CWS coverage here. I&#8217;ve been doing this for almost 15 years now! Each link below is the blog post covering that CWS final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2026: Oklahoma wins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19053\">LSU Wins again<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18546\">Tennessee wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18106\">LSU Wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17654\">Ole Miss wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17149\">Mississippi State wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Covid: no season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16048\">Vanderbilt wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15241\">Oregon State wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14180\">Florida wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12658\">Coastal Carolina wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10975\">Virginia wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9462\">Vanderbilt wins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7064\">UCLA wins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s it for the 2026 CWS tournament. It was a weird tournament, losing the two top seeds early and then the odds-on favorite quickly in Omaha.  There was very little star power, unlike the previous few years when the eventual champions were led by 1-1 draft candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up next: the draft season kicks into gear; we&#8217;ll post more mocks and more analysis, do the July 1st recaps of prospects and pitching, and then see who we pick 11th overall in mid July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend Oklahoma took on UNC in the CWS finals to win. Here&#8217;s a quick game by game recap. Your 2026 College World Series Champion: Oklahoma Sooners Final list of all 2026 CWS coverage this year: Here&#8217;s some links to past years of CWS coverage here. I&#8217;ve been doing this for almost 15 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19681,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675\/revisions\/19681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}