SEC News: Conference continues unbelievable level of domination in baseball

SEC News: Baseball domination continues to astound as conference will boast fifth straight champion

There’s no doubt that the SEC is the ultimate grind when it comes to college baseball. Outside of maybe Triple-A ball, there is no league that comes closer to resembling the majors than the SEC does.

Now, there’s no shortage of controversy when it comes to discussing the conference’s dominance in football. They have their fair share of detractors and naysayers, even during the unbelievable streak from 2007 to 2012 where the national champion was a team from the SEC every single year.

Of course, with that football streak, Alabama accounted for three of those six championships—the others being Florida (2007), LSU (2008), and Auburn (2010). In baseball, the conference is about to match that streak, but with five different teams in five years. 

In 2019, it was the Vanderbilt Commodores. After the 2020 COVID cancellation, Mississippi State won in 2021. Then, it was Ole Miss in 2022. Last year, in 2023, it was LSU. This year, it will either be the Aggies or the Volunteers.

That is an unprecedented run of conference-wide dominance, distributed over all of the schools rather than just a select few. In fact, over that span, 10 of the 14 teams have made it to Omaha at least once, and 7 of those 10 have made it twice: Arkansas, Auburn, MSU, Vandy, Tennessee, Florida, and the Aggies. The only SEC teams that haven’t made it in that span are South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri.

To boot, the SEC has accounted for half of the eight-team field in three of those five years, and for three of the eight-team field in the other two years. That’s unbelievable. This will also be the third time in those five years that the College World Series final is between two SEC teams.