re: Best SEC Baseball Programs All time

Oregon State, Southern Cal, Miami, Tarheels and Arizona State

Y’all’s time will come

I was going since 1992 which is really the modern era of college baseball SEC wise. Tennessee has more regular season and conference titles tha arkansas, South Carolina, Bama, and Ole Miss since 1992. Tennessee is also responsible for one of the few SEC MLB hall of famers. Delmonico and Vitello both have had 8 year strecthes of being dominant. I think Tennessee is on the cusp of moving into the top 5 SEC programs if Vitello makes another omaha or wins another natty

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I was going since 1992 which is really the modern era of college baseball SEC wise.

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It is? I didn't know that.

Even if so, then you probably aren't talking about "All Time" if you take away over half of the history.

I'd swap LSU and State corndog..

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LSU would need to make the CWS every year until 2045 to just catch up to Texas (which assumes Texas doesn’t continue to make it to Omaha). But yeah 6 national championships, 6 more championship appearances, most d1 wins, 3 of top 5 winning coaches… they shouldn’t be considered

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Half of those were 50+ years ago, when no one cared about or invested in college baseball. And half your titles were 50+ years ago.

But even talking all time, 7>6 titles no matter how you slice it.

These are the NCAA DI college baseball teams that have made the most appearances in the Men's College World Series:

Texas: 38
Miami (Fla.): 25
Florida State: 24
Arizona State: 22
USC: 21
Oklahoma State: 20
LSU, Stanford: 19
Arizona, Cal State Fullerton: 18
Florida: 14
Clemson, Mississippi State, North Carolina: 12
Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina: 11
Northern Colorado: 10
Michigan, Texas A&M: 8
Maine, Oregon State, Rice, Tennessee, Virginia, Wichita State: 7
Auburn, Cal, Georgia, Missouri, Ole Miss, St. John's, TCU, Western Michigan: 6
Alabama, Louisville, Minnesota, Penn State, Southern Illinois, UCLA, UConn, Vanderbilt: 5

Only UK doesn't have at least 5 trips.

I don't know enough to argue or dispute the rankings in the OP.

What I DO know though is that this is a prime example of why it's so utterly fricking stupid when people pull for everyone else in the conference come postseason, regardless of sport. "it's good for the conference" they say, as if that matters one single iota.

UGA baseball was the first SEC program to win the CWS. all the way up through the aughts and culminating with our 2nd place finish in 2008, it was basically LSU, massive gap, then UGA, then the rest. But then SC won a few. Then vandy won a few. then a few other schools won their first as well. In a span of barely over a decade, UGA went from being the clear cut 2nd best baseball program in SEC history to maybe like 5th or 6th at best.

THAT is why pulling for the rest of the league simply because "muh SEC" is so dumb .

Even though Texas has been to Omaha more than twice as often as LSU.

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UGA baseball was the first SEC program to win the CWS. all the way up through the aughts and culminating with our 2nd place finish in 2008, it was basically LSU, massive gap, then UGA, then the rest.

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I would disagree.

Mississippi State was the first SEC program to take baseball seriously.

State had made 4 trips to the CWS before UGA made its first. Prior to LSU's run in the 90's, they were the best program in the SEC in terms of consistency year in and year out.

Since 1950, UGA has only made back to back NCAA Tournament appearances three times (1953-54, 2001-02, & 2008-09). While State has made multiple trips back to back and has had a long streak of 7 consecutive NCAAt trips over that same span.

This is just my opinion, but I have never viewed UGA toward the top half of SEC baseball, even with the 1990 title. Too many down/bad years and not enough post season consistency.