The sports world will focus on Omaha, Neb. this weekend for the 2024 College World Series Finals at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. The best-of-three series starts Saturday with the No. 1 seed Tennessee Volunteers taking on the third-seeded Texas A&M Aggies in an All-Southeastern Conference affair. Game 2 is on Sunday, with Game 3, if needed, occurring on Monday night.
Tennessee enters as the favorite, coming off a season that has looked like three separate seasons in one. The Vols began the year in dominant fashion, winning 18 of their first 19 games, with half of those victories coming by double-digits. Then, they experienced some turbulence and went 6-5 when the SEC schedule began, but regrouped in early April. Since that 11-game span, Tennessee is 23-6, which includes postseason play. The Volunteers won the SEC regular season, won the SEC Tournament, swept through a Regional they hosted and then won two of three in the Super Regional, which they also played host to.
