Texas A&M Athletics
By Chris Marler
One of the craziest weekends of the season is in the books. There was revenge, wild comebacks and one LSU fan whose left hook made him more hated in Oxford than Lane Kiffin.
Bi-polar Florida Gators
For a season full of surprises, it’s been nearly impossible to get any picks right with consistency. For whatever reason, the one thing we’ve actually nailed four times in five weeks is calling the upset alert. This week it was Florida, backed by a highly scientific “yeah, why not.”
Florida came through for the pick and took two of three from top-five Georgia on the road. The Gators have been one of the wildest, least predictable teams in the country this season. Four of their five SEC series have ended in a sweep. The lone weekend that didn’t was this past one in Athens.
Taking two of three is a huge résumé boost, giving them a top-five strength of schedule and the No. 2 RPI in the country.
Florida vs teams who are ranked at the time of the game: 10-1 (.909)
Florida vs teams who are unranked at the time of the game: 17-9 (.653)
— SEC Baseball (@SECbaseball) April 12, 2026
Remember who you Ar-kansas
A few SEC teams walked away with those “man, we needed that” series wins this weekend. One of those teams, Arkansas, will head into next week with renewed confidence and momentum.
Arkansas may have had their worst seven day stretch in program history last week. Heading into the midweek, they had lost six of their last seven games in baseball. They also bowed out in the Sweet 16 and, let’s be honest, having that football program alone is more suffering than most of us will ever experience.
They were headed in the exact opposite direction as their opponent this weekend, Alabama. It felt like another ugly series loss could potentially derail the season. Insert the Kanye meme because I guess we’ll never know. That was a vintage Arkansas performance. Three games, three wins and each was won in a different way. Saturday it was behind 15 runs, and Sunday it was a 3-2 win with a dominant day on the mound. Arkansas is back from the dead.
HOGS WIN! THAT’S HOW WE ROLL! pic.twitter.com/BTe1ybwygS
— Arkansas Baseball (@RazorbackBSB) April 12, 2026
Home school kid gets moment in the sun
Then there’s everyone’s favorite home school kid, Texas A&M. They’re like that oddball cousin you only see twice a year, the one you dodge at all costs because they won’t stop talking about K-Pop Demon Hunters despite being well into their 20s. You do everything you can to avoid getting stuck in a conversation with them, but every now and then you run into their older brother, who’s somehow even worse, and it almost makes you feel bad enough to wish them a decent Christmas.
That was the situation this weekend, and Texas A&M had the best Christmas ever.
The scene was electric at Blue Bell Park, and to say the intensity that came from the stands was palpable would be the understatement of the century.
The Aggies were impressive all weekend. You want to talk about answering the call – the Aggies were the embodiment of the phrase. In the first two wins, Texas scored in four different innings, and A&M answered by scoring in the bottom half of each one. That’s what good teams do. The next day, they allowed a run in the first inning of game two and immediately put up eight runs in the bottom half of the frame.
That’s a really good Texas team that rolled into College Station this weekend, and the history, between these programs and their coaches, could fill an entire airport with baggage. Texas A&M is usually easy to poke fun at, but this weekend, they were just as easy to root for.
Sorrell sends Grahovac home‼️ pic.twitter.com/vpdFUfmFH5
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) April 11, 2026
Quick hitters
It feels like Kentucky is proving every single week that committing to a small ball identity in this day and age of college baseball is like a Power Four football team running the Wing T offense. It has worked before, yes. It works at smaller levels and in high school, yes. Is it going to work in a league where every team has someone throwing 100 and several guys who can hit double-digit home runs? No.
I don’t know what’s going on with Mississippi State, but they need to get it figured out fast. Every week, another “lock for Omaha” starts looking like the 2024 Chicago White Sox. Mississippi State has been elite at times this season, which is why their recent skid over the last two weekends has been so surprising. Every fanbase in this league has been through one of those skids, but losing back-to-back weekends and having to hear it from Georgia and Tennessee fans? No one deserves that.
Justin Lebron is such a fascinating prospect. He’s been one of the best players in the league in all three seasons at Alabama, and from a tools standpoint, he has all five and has them at a near 80 grade from MLB scouts. There aren’t many players who can take over a game like he can on a consistent basis, but the number of times he’s impacting it in a costly way is, at the very least, concerning. He’s on pace for a 20/20 season, but right now he’s sitting at 12 home runs, and 12 errors. It’s honestly fascinating.
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