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By Chris Marler
Down the stretch they come! We’ll hear that on Saturday at Churchill Downs, and it also applies to the SEC baseball season. There are three weeks left in the regular season, and it’s now or never for some teams. Here’s our SEC baseball weekend preview.
Off and running
Only one series began Thursday, and if the first game of Alabama and Vanderbilt was any indication of how the weekend will go, we are in for a treat. Alabama walked off the Commodores in epic fashion after a wild night that saw a hidden ball trick and one of the most questionable decisions Tim Corbin has made since allowing those hideous matte green Sunday uniforms.
Vanderbilt led 4-1 when Corbin pulled his ace at just 70 pitches. Alabama came back and won on a walk-off bomb from the same person who was earlier caught napping during a successful hidden ball trick.
RAMMER JAMMER. JOHN LEMM WALK OFF BOMB 🔥🔥🔥
What a massive win for Alabama tonight. Down 4-1 and come back to take the series opener over Vanderbilt pic.twitter.com/y0zH1Sue5W
— 11Point7 College Baseball (@11point7) May 1, 2026
Battle for 14th place!
LSU and South Carolina face off in Baton Rouge in one of the wildest “who could’ve seen that coming” series of the year. LSU is behind South Carolina by one game in the current SEC standings, having lost nine straight conference games. South Carolina comes to town on the heels of winning their second conference series of the year over Kentucky.
The Gamecocks aren’t very good, but neither is LSU. Still, the window for either of these teams to make the postseason isn’t completely closed. The magic number for conference wins for an SEC team to make the postseason is usually 13. That means South Carolina needs to win six games in their final nine and LSU needs seven. If either of these teams could pull off a sweep it would be a massive step forward in achieving those postseason goals.
Updates SEC Standings with 7 weekends complete 📊 pic.twitter.com/061o2Gl4Sp
— SEC Baseball (@SECbaseball) April 26, 2026
Best Series
For the first time this season we get four series featuring ranked opponents, including multiple top ten matchups. Florida travels to Oklahoma, Auburn is at Texas A&M, and Ole Miss heads to Arkansas.
Auburn at Texas A&M features two teams currently ranked in the top eight nationally. It’s also the beginning of the most brutal three series stretch of any team this season for Auburn. The Tigers follow up their weekend in College Station with Georgia and Mississippi State. They could get a massive boost with a series win in Aggieland against an A&M team that is 7-1 over their last three SEC series. It’s top tier pitching versus the best one through four lineup in the conference.
KEVIN MILEWSKI WALK OFF BOMB 🔥🔥🔥
MISSISSIPPI STATE TAKES THE OPENER IN 11 pic.twitter.com/ZAiJANl4Xy
— 11Point7 College Baseball (@11point7) April 25, 2026
The best matchup of the weekend is in Austin.
Mississippi State is coming off their first series sweep over LSU in almost 40 years, and they’ll face one of the best pitching staffs in America. Texas has been nothing but solid this entire year, and they’ve won six of their seven conference series this season. Mississippi State is playing their best baseball of the year right now though and in the middle of a nine game win streak.
The Bulldogs are a more complete team. They’re 8-3 on the road this year, and not only have a great pitching staff, but their lineup is one of the most consistent in the country with eight regulars hitting over .300 on the season.
Who’s on upset alert?
Please don’t egg my house, but it’s LSU. It’s just hard to watch LSU play right now and not think they’ve forgotten how to win. They find new ways to lose and as bad as South Carolina is, they do have really good starting pitching. Both their Friday and Saturday guys have ERAs under four. The Gamecocks win in a very rainy weekend in Baton Rouge.
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