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In the regional and super, UGA hit 25 homeruns over 5 games, which produced something like 36 of their 54 runs. Get to Omaha…just 5 homeruns in 4 games. Run production drops by 7 runs per game.

It seems like teams that focus their offense around homeruns just don’t get it done in Omaha. Not to say that they can’t…Tennessee powered their way to a championship just a couple years ago and LSU hit for power in 23 pretty well. Just seems like more often than not, these teams aren’t the ones that get it done. Those types of teams can absolutely get you there as you often need to mash your way through a regional if your pitching staff isn’t on their game…it just feels like once you’re there, it’s just who gets hot at the right time at the plate or whoever has the all around team who can do it all combined with having deep solid pitching staffs. Usually need a little luck somewhere along the line too.

Oklahoma is 39th in homeruns this year but mashed an impressive 8 bombs so far in 3 games. North Carolina is 47th on the year and hit just 2 in their 3 games. So you got the team that has gotten hot and is mashing all of a sudden vs the team who is built to win without the bombs…built for the big park in Omaha.

Just a few notes on the past winners:

A current SEC team has won 7 of the last 8 championships - last non SEC winner was Oregon State 2018 (no champion in 2019). A current SEC team was also the runner up in 6 of those 8 years.

2025 - LSU hit 4, all by Jared Jones (39th in country)
2024 - TN hit 10 (led country)
2023 - LSU hit 7 (2nd in country)
2022 - Ole Miss 9 (12th in country)
2021 - Miss St hit 7 (55th in country)

This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 11:46 pm