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The 2025 College World Series begins Friday, June 13 and Saturday, June 14, with four opening games at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
One of them pits the two highest-seeded teams remaining in the tournament: No. 3 Arkansas and No. 6 LSU.
Why do the Razorbacks and Tigers face off in their first game of the College World Series?
Here’s an explanation of the bracket, format and schedule for the 2025 CWS to help you prepare for the competition between the final eight teams in the 2025 NCAA baseball tournament, the culmination of the 64-team tourney that began on May 30.
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2025 College World Series bracket
There are eight teams in the 2025 College World Series, with four teams in two brackets. The first includes No. 8 Oregon State, No. 13 Coastal Carolina, Arizona and Louisville.
The second includes No. 3 Arkansas, No. 6 LSU, No. 15 UCLA and Murray State.
The brackets are two separate double-elimination brackets, with the winners of each bracket squaring off in the College World Series Championship Series.
The CWS doesn’t have a team switch brackets when they emerge from the loser’s bracket, like in the Women’s College World Series, so two teams from the same bracket cannot make the championship series, unlike the WCWS. One team from each bracket is guaranteed a spot in the final series.
2025 College World Series format
Each bracket will have two opening round games, with the winners facing off in their second game. Those that start the College World Series 2-0 advance to the CWS semifinals, where they just need to win one of two games to advance to the championship series.
The losers of the opening games face off in an elimination game, with the winner of that game taking on the loser of the teams that won their opening games in another elimination game for a trip to the semifinals, where the losers bracket team has to beat the winners bracket team in two straight games to make the College World Series finals.
The semifinal winners advance to the championship series, which is a best-of-three series to determine the national champion.
2025 College World Series opening games
Coastal Carolina and Arizona face off in one opening game of the College World Series, with Oregon State and Louisville in the other opening game in that bracket.
UCLA takes on Murray State in the first opening game of the other bracket, while Arkansas plays LSU in the other.
The College World Series doesn’t reseed, so that is why Arkansas and LSU, the top remaining seeds in the tournament, play each other in the College World Series.
If all the top 8 national seeds had all advanced to the College World Series, No. 2 Texas would have played No. 7 Georgia, joining Arkansas and LSU on that side of the bracket, with No. 1 Vanderbilt against No. 8 Oregon State and No. 4 Auburn vs No. 5 North Carolina in the other bracket.
But upsets in the regionals and Super Regionals created the current matchups, with unseeded Louisville, Arizona and Murray State making the final eight of the tournament, along with higher seeded Coastal Carolina and UCLA, joining top 8 seeds Arkansas, LSU and Oregon State.
2025 College World Series schedule
Here are the scheduled games for the 2025 College World Series. All times MST.
June 13
- Game 1: Arizona vs Coastal Carolina, 11 a.m., ESPN
- Game 2: Louisville vs Oregon State, 4 p.m., ESPN
June 14
- Game 3: Murray State vs UCLA, 11 a.m., ESPN
- Game 4: LSU vs Arkansas, 4 p.m., ESPN
June 15
- Game 5: Teams TBD, 11 a.m., ESPN
- Game 6: Teams TBD, 4 p.m., ESPN2
June 16
- Game 7: Teams TBD, 11 a.m., ESPN
- Game 8: Teams TBD, 4 p.m., ESPN
June 17
- Game 9: Teams TBD, 11 a.m., ESPN
- Game 10: Teams TBD, 4 p.m., ESPN
June 18
- Game 11: Teams TBD, 11 a.m., ESPN
- Game 12: Teams TBD, 4 p.m., ESPN
June 19
- Game 13: Teams TBD, Time TBD, ESPN (if necessary)
- Game 14: Teams TBD, Time TBD, ESPN (if necessary)
June 21
- College World Series Finals, Game 1, 4 p.m., ESPN
June 22
- College World Series Finals, Game 2, 11:30 a.m., ABC
June 23
- College World Series Finals, Game 3, 4:30 p.m., ESPN (if necessary)
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