Tennessee baseball will begin its fall practices later this month as they look to figure out as much as possible about a largely new look team. The Vols now know the biggest piece of their 2026 schedule with the SEC releasing its conference slate Tuesday afternoon.
Tony Vitello’s ninth Tennessee squad hosts Missouri, LSU, Ole Miss, Alabama and Texas at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Vols will go on the road to face Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and Oklahoma.
Tennessee plays all five SEC teams that they didn’t face a season ago while retaining matchups against Vanderbilt, LSU, Alabama, Ole Miss and Kentucky. Gone are matchups against rivals Florida and Arkansas as well as Auburn, South Carolina, Texas A&M.
The Vols open up SEC play on March 13-15 with a three-game series against Georgia at Foley Field in Athens. Tennessee’s SEC home opener comes a week later when they face Missouri at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. Tennessee wraps up SEC play the second weekend of May at Oklahoma before heading to Hoover for the SEC Tournament.
The toughest stretch of Tennessee’s schedule projects to be the third SEC series to the fifth SEC series when the Vols travel to Vanderbilt, host defending national champion LSU and travels to Mississippi State.
Tennessee has yet to release its non conference schedule but the Vols do play in an early season tournament in Dallas that will likely see the Vols play Arizona State, UCLA and Virginia Tech. The Vols typically play two very small schools and one more competent mid major or Big 10 foe in their fourth non conference weekend series.
Vitello’s program is coming off a strong season where they made it to the super regionals. But after the program’s recent success even Vitello has admitted that missing Omaha has left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth. Over the last five years, Tennessee has won the SEC Regular Season and Tournament twice each, won five regionals, made it to the College World Series three times and won the 2024 National Championship.
Take a look at Tennessee baseball’s complete 2026 SEC series here.
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March 13-15: at Georgia
March 20-22: vs. Missouri
March 27-29: at Vanderbilt
April 3-5: vs. LSU
April 10-12: at Mississippi State
April 17-19: vs. Ole Miss
April 24-26: vs. Alabama
May 1-3: at Kentucky
May 8-10: vs. Texas
May 14-16: at Oklahoma
