(Photo by Mississippi State Athletics)
By Chris Marler
The slate of games from this past weekend in the SEC left a lot to be desired. However, the Tuesday night action fans are about to get is easily the best we’ve seen all season.
There are several Power Four matchups, several big in-state matchups, and we even get a midweek Egg Bowl of baseball. Here’s what to watch for this week.
LSU’s confidence boost
LSU welcomes Northwestern State to the Box. LSU has won 24 of the last 27 against the Demons. It should be a good night for the LSU bats as the Demons pitching staff have a 4.77 ERA on the season and are allowing opponents to hit .258 against them on the season.
A quick seven inning game with several crooked numbers going up on the scoreboard for LSU would be just the confidence boost this team needs before Tennessee comes to town.
Georgia teams travel back in time on Highway 85
There’s an incredible amount of football nostalgia associated with two of these midweek games tonight involving teams from the peach state.
Georgia heads 80 miles northeast right past Lake Hartwell and just across the state line to Clemson for a top ten matchup against two of the best teams in the country. It’s the same trek they made countless times before the earliest of SEC expansion.
The Tigers have been a top five team all season and are currently ranked No. 2 behind mighty Texas at 35-7 this season. Georgia is coming off a dismal trip to Nashville where they were swept by the Commodores.
Meanwhile, Georgia Tech will head an hour and a half south to what has basically become an in-state school, and former SEC foe, Auburn. Trust me, as a Georgia native, and someone who currently lives a mile and a half from Tech’s campus, there are more Auburn fans in Atlanta than there are in Auburn.
These two teams played two weeks ago in Atlanta in a thriller that saw several lead changes and a late inning comeback.
I doubt the Jackets are taking a train to Auburn. Either way let’s hope for Tech’s sake, Auburn fans don’t grease the tracks of the team coming in like they famously did 130 years ago.
RemaUTch in Austin
Yes, I know that’s not how you spell rematch. However, the letters make more sense than if I jammed them into revenge.
Revenge is exactly what Texas will be looking for against Texas State this week as the Bobcats come to town. The Longhorns lost 5-3 to TSU on April 1, and they heard about it from their in-state counterparts.
Now, Texas is playing the best baseball of any team in the country. The only question is whether or not they will overlook the Bobcats as they get ready for little brother Texas A&M coming to town this weekend.
The Egg Bowl of Baseball
Ole Miss and Mississippi State face off in Pearl in the Governor’s Cup. Mississippi State leads the Governor‘s Cup series 11-5.
The TV intro for the 1998 Mayor’s Cup, now the Governor’s Cup, the annual non-conference midweek matchup between Mississippi State and Ole Miss. With of course @DaveNealSports on the call.@HailStateBB | @OleMissBSB
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— The Omaha Archive (@TheOmahaArchive) April 22, 2025
Ole Miss secured just one win over South Carolina on the weekend. However, that win was enough to help them surpass their season total from a year ago with 28.
The Rebels will send freshman Cade Townsend to the mound with his 1-2 record and 7.13 ERA. He hasn’t gone over four innings in any game this season and has allowed two or more runs in four of his last six games.
Give me Mississippi State to win their second in a row after beating the Rebs in last year’s Governor’s Cup Game in Pearl, 5-1.
