The 2026 NCAA baseball Super Regional field is set following six winner-take-all games on Monday.

The top two seeds have been eliminated — with No 1 UCLA falling on Sunday to Saint Mary’s and No 2 Georgia Tech dropping an extra-innings thriller to Oklahoma on Monday — but five of the six other top-eight national seeds advanced and will serve as hosts next weekend.

The Super Regionals will include two No. 4 seeds for the first time since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams and went to 16 four-team Regionals in 1999. Little Rock advanced out of the Hattiesburg Regional, beating host Southern Miss on Friday and Jacksonville State on Saturday and Sunday. St. John’s, which started the season 1-10, joined the party on Monday afternoon by beating Florida State for the second time in the Tallahassee Regional.

For pure drama, nothing beat the scene in Morgantown on Monday night. West Virginia blew a four-run lead to Kentucky in the eighth inning but battled back to win in the bottom of the 10th to cap off one of the best Regionals in recent years. The Mountaineers, who have never been to the College World Series, will host Cal Poly in the Supers.

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Here are the matchups in the Super Regionals:

Cal Poly vs. No 16 West Virginia (Morgantown)
Oklahoma vs. No 15 Kansas (Lawrence)
No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 14 Mississippi State (Athens)
No. 4 Auburn vs. Ole Miss (Auburn)
No. 5 North Carolina vs. USC (Chapel Hill)
No. 6 Texas vs. No. 11 Oregon (Austin)
No. 7 Alabama vs. St. John’s (Tuscaloosa)
Troy vs. Little Rock (Troy)
Most intriguing matchupsTexas at Oregon

Big-name brands from the pre-eminent rival conferences in college sports are set to battle for a spot in Omaha. Visits to the CWS are a birthright for Texas. The Longhorns have made it an NCAA-record 38 times, though not since 2022, with six national championships. Oregon has appeared just once, in 1954. It dropped the sport in 1981 and resumed play in 2009, hoping to duplicate the success of Oregon State. But the Ducks did not advance out of Super Regionals in 2012, 2023 and 2024.

Oregon is big and physical. They’ve hit 104 home runs, best in the Big Ten, and boast a 3.99 ERA. Texas is equally powerful, with 99 homers, a 4.10 ERA, second in the SEC, and a strikeout-to-walk ratio (630 to 179) that ranks third nationally.

For star power, check out Texas outfielder Aiden Robbins and Oregon third baseman Drew Smith, both first-team all-league picks. — Sherman

Mississippi State vs. Georgia

The maroon Bulldogs lost all four games this season to the red Bulldogs —  Georgia was flat-out better, winning SEC regular-season and tournament titles — but coaching pedigree is in Mississippi State’s favor. So are personnel developments, in a matchup that will come down to MSU’s pitching against UGA’s power-packed offense.

If Brian O’Connor is going to reach his eighth College World Series as a head coach — all achieved at Virginia, where he won the 2015 national championship — his first Mississippi State team probably needs to win the opener. Georgia will be without All-SEC third baseman Tre Phelps (.370, 19 home runs, 57 RBIs) for that game after he was ejected for taunting Liberty in the wake of a home run that proved the decisive blow in a 6-1 win Sunday to advance.

Georgia third-year coach Wes Johnson vehemently contested the decision, arguing that Phelps’ family was seated directly above the Liberty dugout, but he lost the argument and was ejected. Still, he’ll bring one of the game’s most powerful lineups in recent years into the series, led by catcher Daniel Jackson and his 29 bombs. MSU, though, didn’t have starting pitcher Ryan McPherson for the Georgia series because of a forearm injury, and he now completes a trio good enough to make this interesting.

Mississippi State is trying to get back to Omaha for the first time since 2021, when it won its lone national title. Georgia last reached the College World Series in 2008 and its only championship came in 1990. — Rexrode

Little Rock at Troy

The unlikeliest Super Regional matchup, maybe ever, features a pair of mid-major Trojans — Little Rock, a No 4 seed fresh off a 3-0 weekend at the Hattiesburg Regional, and Troy, which knocked off Florida twice to win the Gainesville Regional as the No 3 seed.

Troy earned an at-large bid with a 32-29 record thanks to its strength of schedule (No. 8) and relatively high RPI (No. 35). The Trojans played 21 games in the regular season against teams in the field and went 10-11, highlighted by wins against Georgia and Alabama. The player to watch for Skylar Meade’s club is Jimmy Janicki, a sophomore catcher who is hitting .349 with 19 home runs and 85 RBIs. He is a potential first-round pick in the 2027 MLB Draft

Little Rock made LSU sweat last year in the Baton Rouge Regional — and was the only team to beat the eventual national champs in the postseason — and then broke through with its first Regional win in program history.

There will be plenty of great environments this weekend, but you can expect Riddle-Pace Field at Troy to be at a fever pitch. Capacity is listed at 2,500, but that appears to be just a suggestion. Earlier this season, a record 3,982 fans watched Troy knock off Alabama. — Light