The biggest stage in college baseball, the one that hundreds of teams across the country begin their seasons dreaming about in the dead of winter, is finally here.
With the end of the super regional round of the 2025 NCAA tournament, which wrapped up June 9 with Murray State’s 5-4 win against Duke, the eight-team field for the College World Series has been set, with festivities beginning on June 13 from Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska.
Five of the eight teams remaining in the national championship hunt are national seeds, a group led by No. 3 Arkansas, which is seeking its first ever CWS title. Unlike last year, when the field was evenly split with four SEC teams and four ACC teams, seven different conferences are represented in the 2025 CWS, including Oregon State, which played as an independent program this season following the dissolution of the Pac-12.
Here’s a look at the College World Series bracket, including matchups, teams and the schedule:
College World Series matchups
The 2025 College World Series will open with four games. The winners of those games will advance to play one another while the losers will do the same, with the latter aiming to avoid elimination with a second loss.
Here’s a look at those opening matchups:
All times Eastern
Friday, June 13: No. 13 Coastal Carolina vs. Arizona | 2 p.m. | ESPN (ESPN+)
Friday, June 13: No. 8 Oregon State vs. Louisville | 7 p.m. | ESPN (ESPN+)
Saturday, June 14: No. 15 UCLA vs. Murray State | 2 p.m. | ESPN (ESPN+)
Saturday, June 14: No. 3 Arkansas vs. No. 6 LSU | 7 p.m. | ESPN (ESPN+)
Watch the 2025 College World Series live with ESPN+
CWS schedule
First day of CWS: Friday, June 13
CWS championship series: June 21-June 22/23
The 2025 College World Series will begin on Friday, June 13. Eight days later, on June 21, the event’s championship series is set to start. It will run through June 22 or June 23, depending on whether the best-of-three series goes two or three games.
College World Series bracket
How does the College World Series work?
The College World Series is a double-elimination tournament that leads up to a best-of-three championship series between the final two teams remaining in the field.
For a deeper explanation on how the tournament works, click here.
Does the NCAA Baseball Tournament re-seed?
The NCAA tournament, including the College World Series, does not re-seed to pair lower matchups with higher ones.
That means that the two highest-seeded teams remaining in the CWS, No. 3 Arkansas and No. 6 LSU, will play each other since that was how the NCAA tournament bracket was set up, rather than having both the Razorbacks and Tigers take on the lowest-seeded teams remaining.
Who is in the College World Series?
No. 3 Arkansas
No. 6 LSU
No. 8 Oregon State
No. 13 Coastal Carolina
No. 15 UCLA
Arizona
Louisville
Murray State
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