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    Jeff Howe
    Before Texas faces Georgia in the Longhorns’ first game at the College World Series against Georgia on Saturday (7 p.m., ESPN), coach Jim Schlossnagle, pitcher Luke Harrison and All-American catcher Carson Tinney will meet with the media at Charles Schwab Field Omaha on Thursday.
    The No. 6 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, Texas (45-13), is in the College World Series for an NCAA-record 39th time after a two-game sweep of 11th-seeded Oregon in the Austin Super Regional. One of five SEC teams in Omaha (the most CWS participants ever from one conference), the Longhorns’ first meeting with the 2026 season against the Bulldogs is the only CWS game in which the chalk held.
    Georgia (51-12) entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 3 overall seed after claiming the SEC regular-season championship and winning the SEC Tournament. Like Texas, the Bulldogs swept through the regional before outlasting 14th-seeded Mississippi State in a pair of slugfests to win the Athens Super Regional.
    On Texas Football will follow the Longhorns’ press conference, scheduled to start at 5:15 p.m., and pass along what Schlossnagle and the Texas players say before the Longhorns go for their 89th all-time CWS victory.
    Jeff Howe
    When the SEC unveils the TV windows for the remaining conference-controlled games in 2026 during a live SEC Network special on Wednesday (6 p.m.), Texas fans will be one step closer to knowing when the Longhorns will be kicking off every game of Steve Sarkisian’s sixth season.
    Still, the schedule isn’t expected to be set in stone.
    The SEC typically utilizes a six-day window to announce kickoff times for flexed regular-season games. If a firm start time isn’t given, the game will be assigned one of four potential kickoff windows: the early window, with a kickoff time between 11 a.m. and noon; the afternoon (2:30-3:30 p.m.); the evening (5-7 p.m.); or it will be flexed for either an afternoon or evening kickoff.
    Ahead of the TV window reveal, Texas has four game broadcasts locked in for the 2026 season:
    Sept. 5 — Texas State (2:30 p.m., ESPN)
    Sept. 12 — Ohio State (6:30 p.m., ABC)
    Sept. 19 — UTSA (7 p.m., SEC Network+)
    Nov. 27 — at Texas A&M (6:30 p.m., ABC)
    The following games are the other SEC games on the Longhorns’ schedule. OTF will update the TV windows for each game as they're announced on Wednesday:
    Sept. 26 — at Tennessee (11 a.m., ABC or ESPN)
    Oct. 10 — Oklahoma (2:30 p.m., ABC or ESPN)
    Oct. 17 — Florida (Early; 11 a.m.-noon)
    Oct. 24 — Ole Miss (Flex; Afternoon or Night)
    Oct. 31 — Mississippi State (Night; 5-7 p.m.)
    Nov. 7 — at Missouri (Early; 11 a.m.-noon)
    Nov. 14 — at LSU (Flex; Afternoon or Night)
    Nov. 21 — Arkansas (Afternoon; 2:30-3:30 p.m.)
     
     
    Jeff Howe
    AUSTIN, Texas — Timely hitting was the difference for Texas in Sunday’s 6-5 win over Oregon, which clinched a two-game sweep of the Austin Super Regional and secured the program’s NCAA-record 39th all-time trip to the College World Series.
    Will Sanford battled to keep the Ducks in the game through 3.2 innings and when Tanner Bradley’s 3.1-inning, 65-pitch scoreless gem out of the bullpen (one hit, one walk, two hit batters and five strikeouts) ended, the Longhorns’ 4-0 lead after the top of the second was gone. Facing a 5-4 deficit entering the eighth inning, Texas (45-13) loaded the bases with two outs after Oregon (43-18) closer Devin Bell walked Carson Tinney, hit Anthony Pack Jr. in the foot with a 1-1 pitch and saw Temo Becerra reach base on an infield single.
    That’s when the Longhorns got the timely hit they needed to take back the lead for good.
    In a 3-1 count, Adrian Rodriguez (2-for-5) slashed a two-run double down the left-field line and into the corner. Rodriguez’s team-leading 11th hit of the NCAA Tournament got by the outstretched glove of third baseman Drew Smith and brought Tinney and Pack home for the tying and go-ahead runs, respectively.
    In its two wins over the Ducks, Texas went 7-for-23 at the plate with two outs and 6-for-18 with runners in scoring position. Oregon, on the other hand, was 2-for-24 in the Austin Super Regional with runners in scoring position, stranding 24 runners and striking out 28 times.
    The eighth-inning decisive blow by Rodriguez, who went 2-for-3 with five RBI and one run scored in Saturday’s 11-3 victory over the Ducks, was the only bases-loaded hit of the Austin Super Regional (the Longhorns were 1-for-5 and Oregon was 0-for-6 with the bases juiced).
    With the lead, Sam Cozart retired each of the nine Oregon batters he faced, striking out four en route to his ninth save of the season. The Longhorns got 5.2 gutsy innings from Ruger Riojas (six hits, four earned runs, one hit batter, four walks and seven strikeouts) before turning it over to the bullpen, which needed Thomas Burns to toe the rubber in the bottom of the seventh for three consecutive outs (including two strikeouts) after the go-ahead run reached third base with no outs against Brody Walls.
    Jeff Howe
    AUSTIN, Texas — With five of their eight hits going for extra bases, including home runs by Casey Borba and Ethan Mendoza, and Dylan Volantis putting up five shutout innings before his sixth-inning exit, Texas took another step toward a trip to Omaha with an 11-3 rout of Oregon in the first game of the Austin Super Regional on Saturday.
    If the Longhorns win the second game of the Super Regional on Sunday (8 p.m., ESPN), they'd punch their ticket the College World Series for an NCAA-record 39th time.
    A crowd of 8,550 fans at UFCU Disch-Falk Field and a national audience on ESPN watched Texas (44-13) battle through a three-hour, 53-minute affair that was downright sloppy at times. The two clubs combined to walk 17 batters and hit five more, with four combined runs scored on walks, hit batters or balks with the bases loaded.
    When push came to shove, however, Volantis (5.1 innings, eight hits, two earned runs, four walks, 10 strikeouts, four wild pitches and one hit batter on a career-high 110 pitches) and the three other pitchers Jim Schlossnagle and Max Weiner used held the Ducks to an 0-for-14 night hitting with runners in scoring position. Oregon (43-17) only pushed two runs across after having the bases loaded with one out in the top of the third, runners in scoring position with no outs in the fourth and the bases loaded with no outs in the sixth.
    Those two runs came home in the sixth, when Thomas Burns issued back-to-back walks in relief of Volantis. Luke Harrison, who has been in the starting rotation all season and appeared in two games in the Austin Regional (he started the team’s 19-1 win over Holy Cross last Friday and recorded the last out in a 6-4 victory over UC Santa Barbara last Sunday), struck out catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus to get the Longhorns out of the seventh.
    Harrison struck out two and walked two in 1.1 hitless innings (27 total pitches) out of the bullpen.
    The Ducks outhit the Longhorns, 9-8, but Texas made its hits count. The Longhorns jumped out to a 7-0 lead through five thanks to Adrian Rodriguez’s two-run double in the first inning, Borba’s solo homer (his 18th of the season and the 34th of his career, moving him into a tie with Kody Clemens for the sixth-most home runs in program history) and a sacrifice fly to right field by Aiden Robbins in the bottom of the second and an RBI single by Rodriguez highlighting a two-run fifth.
    After Oregon cut into the deficit with two runs in the top of the sixth, Texas got those runs back and then some in the home half.
    Anthony Pack Jr. and Temo Becerra moved into scoring position for Rodriguez, whose sacrifice fly to center field brought Pack home, a part of the sophomore shortstop’s 2-for-3 night at the plate with a career-high five RBI. With Becerra on third and one out, Mendoza obliterated a 1-0 pitch from right-handed relief pitcher Collin Clarke, crushing a 438-foot home run to left field.
    Jeff Howe
    AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Longhorns are two wins away from the school’s NCAA-record 39th berth in the College World Series. The Oregon Ducks are the last hurdle between Jim Schossnagle’s team and a trip to Omaha, with the two clubs slated to begin the Austin Super Regional at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Saturday (7 p.m., ESPN).
    Ahead of the first game of the best two-out-of-three series between Texas (43-13) and Oregon (43-16), both teams will practice on the Forty Acres and meet with the media on Friday. Schlossnagle will be joined at the press conference by left-handed starting pitcher Dylan Volantis and outfielder Anthony Pack Jr.
    On Texas Football is reporting live from Disch-Falk Field for the Friday practices and press conferences and will have updates throughout the afternoon.
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