With one week remaining in the regular season, Tennessee is rapidly approaching the 2025 SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover.
So with one week remaining, where do the Vols project to land? Tennessee enters the final week of the regular season 15-12 in league play which is good for seventh place in the SEC standings.
With Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference this season the format of the tournament is different this season. It’s a single elimination tournament that begins on Tuesday with four games from teams seeded nine to 16. Teams seeded five through eight get a one-round bye until Wednesday while the top four seeds have a double-bye until Thursday.
That makes it important for Tennessee to try and maintain a top eight seed in the SEC Tournament. It’s far from a given with the struggling Vols facing Arkansas (18-9 SEC) this weekend in Fayetteville.
The Vols have a tenuous one game lead to remain a top eight seed. Alabama (14-12) is half a game behind the Vols while Ole Miss (14-13) is a game behind the them. Tennessee does hold the tiebreaker over Ole Miss after taking two out of three over the Rebels.
Kentucky (13-14), Oklahoma (13-14), Florida (12-14) and Mississippi State (12-15) all remain in striking distance of finishing in eighth place. The Wildcats hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Vols.
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Tennessee could also gain ground on Vanderbilt (16-11), Auburn (16-11) and Georgia (16-10) but that is tough sledding since Vanderbilt and Auburn hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over Tennessee.
The final weekend of the regular season sees Vanderbilt host Kentucky, Ole Miss host Auburn and Florida host Alabama. Tennessee fans will likely want successful weekends from the Commodores, Tigers and Gators.
If the SEC Tournament began today, Tennessee would face the winner of Kentucky-South Carolina on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. ET. But as outlined, there’s still a lot up in the air that could change in the next week.
Tennessee is the reigning SEC Baseball Tournament Champions and has won two of the last three tournaments in Hoover. But the 2025 Vols are in a deep funk entering the final week of the regular season.
Tony Vitello’s squad has dropped four straight series and five of their last six series after winning their first three SEC series. In its last 18 SEC games, Tennessee has won just two games Liam Doyle hasn’t pitched in.
The Vols will look to get going this weekend against a strong Arkansas team in Fayetteville before opening up play at the SEC Tournament the following week.
