On Tuesday the reigning national champion LSU baseball team and the SEC at large announced the entirety of the 2026 schedule.
LSU opens its season on February 13 against Milwaukee. Not the Brewers, that’d be cool, but the Milwaukee Panthers of the Horizon League. We even have a first pitch time already set for that weekend, Friday starts at 2:00, Saturday starts at 1:00, and Sunday starts at noon.
The following weekend, LSU will head to Jacksonville to partake in the Jax College Baseball Classic. The Tigers
will play Indiana on Friday, Notre Dame on Saturday, and UCF on Sunday.
In typical Jay Johnson fashion, the non-conference slate is pretty light though an end of February/beginning of March series with Dartmouth and Northeastern is pretty tasty. It looks like it’ll be a round-robin weekend, where everyone plays each other twice. LSU will start with Dartmouth on February 27, then play Northeastern the next day, then game two against Dartmouth, before closing the weekend out on Monday, March 2, against the Huskies.
As far as midweek games go, the most intriguing one is either at ULL (Wednesday March 4) or at home against Creighton (Tuesday March 10).
SEC play begins the weekend of March 13, and LSU will open up against Vanderbilt in Nashville. The first home SEC series is the following week against Oklahoma.
The league certainly didn’t do LSU any favors this year, as the Tigers have to go to Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Ole Miss (on back-to-back weekends), Mississippi State, and Georgia. LSU will host Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas A&M, South Carolina (and the return of Paul Mainieri), and close out the regular season against Florida.
The SEC Tournament once again will be in Hoover and run from May 19 through the 24, and the regional round of the NCAA Tournament is May 29-June 1.
