College Baseball Opening Weekend ⚾️🏆

It's college baseball opening weekend! Here is everything you need to know for the start of the season.

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Elijah Evans & Jared Perkins
February 13, 2025

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The college baseball season is here, and it’s expected to be another season full of storylines and incredible talent across the NCAA. Here’s everything you need to know for the college baseball season including:

  • Key Storylines to Follow

  • Just Baseball’s Top 25 College Teams

  • Conference Outlooks/Predictions

  • Players to Watch

  • Insights from College Coaches

  • Other News and Notes

Check out our On The Clock podcast to stay up-to-date on the latest news and analysis across college baseball and the MLB Draft! New episodes drop weekly.

Key Storylines to Follow

Texas A&M begins the season ranked as the No. 1 team: Texas A&M begins the 2025 season as the No. 1 ranked team after reaching the College World Series finals last year. Despite losing several players to the portal following Jim Schlossnagle’s departure, new head coach Mike Earley reloaded the roster, retaining stars like Jace LaViolette, a potential first-overall MLB Draft pick, and adding Big 12 Player of the Year Gavin Kash. With one of the nation’s best lineups and a strong pitching staff led by ace Ryan Prager, the Aggies are poised as serious contenders for the national title.

Tennessee will look to repeat as CWS Champs: The Tennessee Volunteers enter 2025 as the No. 2 team in college baseball, aiming to defend their College World Series title. While there are some uncertainties in the rotation, standout AJ Russell could make an impact midseason, alongside key arms like Liam Doyle and Nate Snead. The lineup is stacked, led by Dean Curley, a top-10 MLB Draft prospect, and bolstered by transfers Gavin Kilen and Andrew Fischer, keeping Tennessee a strong contender for another championship run.

New look conferences (ACC, BIG10, Big12) will provide for some complicated schedules: There was a ton of conference shuffling with the PAC-12 mostly dissolving. Cal and Stanford joined the ACC Conference, Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington joined the Big Ten Conference, and Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah joined the Big 12 Conference. Many teams will have to take long trips from the west coast to the east coast and vice versa. For example, Oregon has an 11 AM game on a Monday against Georgetown after playing a weekend series against conference foe Maryland. How teams deal with these long flights and wonky schedules will be interesting.

The battle for the top pitcher in college baseball will be fun: The battle for the top pitcher in college baseball will be a season-long showdown between Florida State’s Jamie Arnold and UCSB’s Tyler Bremner, the No. 2 and No. 3 college prospects for the 2025 MLB Draft. Arnold, who struck out 159 in 105.2 innings with a 2.98 ERA, continued to dominate for the USA Collegiate National Team. Bremner, the top mid-major arm, posted an 11-1 record with a 2.74 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 88 innings. Both are poised to compete for National Pitcher of the Year honors.

Just Baseball Trivia of the Week

Our newsletter will have a trivia question every week to test and expand the baseball knowledge of our subscribers! The answer to the weekly trivia question will be at the bottom of the newsletter each week.

Question: Who is the last team to win back-to-back College World Series Championships?

A) Florida

B) South Carolina

C) Texas

D) LSU

Just Baseball’s Top 25 College Teams

The field is loaded with talent and we’ll continue to update our Top 25 teams throughout the season once games get rolling this weekend.

There are a lot of teams in college baseball… which means some very good ones won’t even crack our rankings. Check out some of the teams that just missed in our first rankings but will be definitely be worth keeping an eye on this season.

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Conference Outlooks and Predictions

As we prepare for the season to kick off, we have been putting together previews of the major conferences in college baseball with predictions on how they could shake out this spring.

Southeastern Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

Big 12 Conference

Big Ten Conference

Insights From College Coaches

The On The Clock podcast has been interviewing coaches and players from around college baseball throughout the offseason. Here are all our interviews with college head coaches and assistant coaches to give you insights on what to expect for the 2025 college baseball season:

Other News and Notes

Players to Watch

Tyler Jennings compiled Just Baseball’s 2025 MLB Draft Top 80 College Prospects. The list goes in-depth on each player and includes video to get live looks at the top players across college baseball.

Trivia Answer: B) South Carolina

The South Carolina Gamecocks won the College World Series in 2010 and 2011 as they’re the most recent team to accomplish this challenging feat.

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