No. 14 seed Tennessee baseball has third-best odds to win 2025 College World Series
No. 14 seed Tennessee baseball has third-best odds to win 2025 College World Series
Tennessee baseball has the third-best odds to win the 2025 College World Series entering the NCAA Tournament.
DraftKings has the Vols with +850 odds to win the national championship, trailing only Arkansas (+475) and LSU (+650). Vanderbilt, the No. 1 overall seed, has +1200 odds.
Tennessee won the program's first national title in 2024. No champion has repeated since South Carolina won back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011.
The Vols (43-16) are the No. 14 national seed heading into the postseason. They open the Knoxville Regional as the No. 1 seed in the regional against No. 4 seed Miami (Ohio) on May 30 (6 p.m. ET, ESPN+). No. 2 seed Wake Forest (36-20) and No. 3 seed Cincinnati (32-24) are on the opposite side of the bracket.
The Knoxville Regional is paired with the Fayetteville Regional, which is hosted by No. 3 national seed Arkansas. The winners of the two regionals will face in the super regional. Arkansas beat Tennessee in the final regular-season series.
Regionals will take place May 30-June 2. Super regionals are slated for June 6-8 or June 7-9. The College World Series at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska, starts June 13.
Tennessee is hosting a regional for the fourth time in the past five seasons. The Vols advanced to the College World Series as a host and the No. 3 national seed in 2021. They hosted again in 2022 as the No. 1 overall seed but lost in a three-game super regional to Notre Dame. They did not host in 2023, but reached CWS by winning the Clemson Regional and the Hattiesburg Super Regional.
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UT hosted as the No. 1 seed in 2024, winning a regional and super regional at home before winning the program's first national title. It was the first time the No. 1 seed won the CWS since Miami in 1999.
Tennessee has made six straight NCAA Tournament appearances under coach Tony Vitello. UT had a breakthrough in 2019 to gain a bid for the first time since 2005. It was a No. 2 seed in the Chapel Hill Regional that season, falling to the Tar Heels in the final.
Mike Wilson covers University of Tennessee athletics. Email him at michael.wilson@knoxnews.com and follow him on X @ByMikeWilson or Bluesky @bymikewilson.bsky.social. If you enjoy Mike's coverage, consider a digital subscription that will allow you access to all of it.
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