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By Chris Marler
The SEC finished their penultimate weekend of conference play on Sunday. It was a busy weekend full of big moments, viral calls, and a regular season champion being crowned. Here’s our SEC Baseball weekend recap.
It’s Eaux-ver for LSU
LSU will not be playing in the postseason this year. Barring the Tigers sweeping a Top 25 Florida team next weekend and getting through Hoover unscathed and winning the tournament as a 14 seed, it’s over for the defending champs. That is a wild thing to think about considering the preseason accolades and rankings to start the year. It’s just been a brutal year with way more downs than ups, and the only consistency they were ever able to establish was losing.
It was incredibly frustrating to watch all year. The starting pitching never showed any ability to avoid big innings or going deep in games. The pitching staff as a whole gave up more free bases than anyone else in the conference. The lineup refused to get ahead in counts on any consistent basis, and when they did the amount of outs that were the result of lazy fly balls and soft line drives to the opposite field was truly remarkable in the worst way. Then there was the defense, which in the last month of the season, seemed to turn around. But, defense is an effort and focus thing. The struggles this team had defensively perfectly summed up how most of this season went – underwhelming and poor in effort.
This wasn’t Jay Johnson’s fault although I’m sure he will shoulder most of the blame.
It was a year where the player acquisitions from the transfer portal just never reached their potential across the board. Johnson coached his butt off until the very end in Athens and will continue to do so next week. The worst part of any baseball season is when you have to start talking about the next one, and sadly, that’s where LSU is currently.
They’re still going. It’s been roughly 30 minutes. https://t.co/iq9pO5nh1b
— Koki Riley (@KokiRiley) May 10, 2026
History made in Columbia
It’s such a bizarre year for some of the blue bloods of this conference. LSU’s struggles were highlighted all season, and Vanderbilt is fighting for their life to extend their postseason appearance streak to 20. Then there’s the program that was once at the mountain top of this conference for most of the 2000s and early 2010s – South Carolina.
The Gamecocks have invented new ways to lose and found new rock bottoms several times over the last two seasons. They found another one this weekend in Founders Park when they were swept by Alabama. Their three losses to the Tide gave them 30 on the season for the first time in program history. Last year was bad when they went 6-24 in conference play. Against all odds, this year somehow got worse despite winning seven games in SEC play with one weekend to go.
South Carolina athletic director Jeremiah Donati has promised that the Gamecocks will be the most desired coaching position to fill in the country this offseason. He better be right.
FINAL | No. 19 Alabama: 7, South Carolina: 6
History has been made. First-ever 30-loss season in program history. First eight-game losing streak in 65 years.
The Gamecocks fall to 22-30 (7-20 SEC) and will host Winthrop on Tuesday in the home finale at Founders Park.
— Jack Veltri (@Jacktveltri) May 10, 2026
Give credit where credit is due
The Georgia Bulldogs are your 2026 regular season SEC Champions.
They are 41-11 and 21-6 in conference play. Yet, for whatever reason, Georgia continues to get talked about like they aren’t one of the best teams in the country. There are some that think they don’t even deserve a top eight national seed.
That’s absurd. Give credit where credit is due. Georgia is one of the best teams in the country and deserve their flowers.
The Bulldogs absolutely rake. Their 140 home runs continues to lead the nation and is on pace to potentially break the single season record in NCAA baseball history. They have run ruled 15 different teams which is tied for the most of any team in the country with Georgia Tech. The cherry on top was sweeping LSU for the first time in program history.
Eight of their nine starters in the lineup are hitting over .300, and they currently have five hitters with 16 or more home runs this season. Statistically speaking, they may finish this year with the greatest lineup in SEC history.
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