REACTION: SEC SENDS 12 TEAMS To Regionals — MOST In College Baseball!

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The SEC just made history. 12 teams from the Southeastern Conference landed in the 2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament — nearly 1 of every 5 teams in the entire 64-team field. 8 of the 16 national seeds. 7 regional hosts. That's not depth. That's domination. In this episode of Locked On Ole Miss, Steven Willis breaks down why the SEC's 12-team haul is the loudest statement any conference has made in modern college baseball. We cover: - The full list of 12 SEC teams in the 2026 NCAA Tournament - The 8 SEC national seeds (Georgia, Auburn, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, and the rest) - The 7 SEC regional hosts and what their bracket paths look like - Why this is the deepest conference in college baseball history - What it means for Ole Miss, Tennessee and Arkansas as 2-seeds. - The road to Omaha — and how many SEC teams could make Charles Schwab Field for the College World Series The Big 12 had a strong showing. The ACC sent quality. The Big Ten got Nebraska to host. But nobody in the country can match what the SEC just put in the NCAA Tournament bracket.

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0:00.0	12 teams from the SEC making college baseball postseason.
0:07.2	I am sure they're not going to be any overreactions to any of these regionals whatsoever.
0:11.3	Let's get into it.
0:12.1	You're talking ball with the SEC squad.
0:15.4	From Alabama to Tennessee, from Georgia to Oklahoma, from Auburn to Texas.
0:23.6	It's the local experts of the Locked-on Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns,
0:25.9	and the most comprehensive preview
0:28.1	of the upcoming SEC weekend.
0:30.5	It's the SEC Squad, and we have a seat for you.
0:34.1	Hurt feelings and thin skin are prohibited.
0:37.0	Squad Up, you're part of the SEC squad and welcome
0:42.9	into the locked on SEC squad live special thingy that we're doing we don't really have a title for
0:49.4	but we're making it live and we're going to have a lot of fun with it as it is presented by
0:52.5	fan duel i am your host john neighbors of the locked of the Locked on Raise Your Backs podcast. He is Stephen Willis of Locked on Ole Miss and he is Corey Burton of Locked on Vanderbilt and rumor has that we're going to have some other people joining us from some other teams from the SEC that of course made it into college baseball postseason. But fellas, the field of 64, I guess we can call it that, has officially been set.
1:14.7	How do we feel about not just our specific teams, but the SEC and the draw and everything now that it's officially been made?
1:22.9	I think the SEC got a their fair share of national seeds.
1:27.9	It felt like whenever they did the selection show,
1:30.6	basically every other name that was called was an SEC team.
1:34.8	But I think the big story would be like Arkansas getting screwed.
1:39.4	Ole Miss is a two seed.
1:40.9	I don't like that regional.
1:42.0	I think the twos have a chance to be effective moving forward, but there is a two seed. I don't like that regional. I think the twos have a chance to be effective moving
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