What to watch for during the final weekend of SEC play before Hoover

We’ve officially reached the final weekend of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Regular season. All sixteen teams look to finish the regular season strongly before shifting the focus to the postseason, as the 2025 SEC Tournament starts on Tuesday morning in Hoover.

Heading into the final weekend, all sixteen teams have something to play, from Texas trying to win the SEC outright to South Carolina and Missouri battling for who to represent as the last-place team in next week’s Southeastern Conference standings. Then you have Mississippi State, who, after firing Chris Lemonis, begin to play its best baseball of the season with series wins over Kentucky and Ole Miss; the Bulldogs travel to Missouri as they look to continue their winning streak heading into the SEC Tournament.

In the Southeastern Conference, the red-hot Auburn Tigers are heading to Mississippi, where they await a three-game series at Swayze Field against the Ole Miss Rebels. Auburn heads to Swayze with a brand new ranking as the second-ranked team in the country behind #1 LSU. Many around the Plains have started to book their flights and rooms for Omaha. As it appears from the outside looking in, this might be the best Auburn Baseball team in the ten years under Head Coach Butch Thompson. Since taking over Auburn in 2015, Coach Thompson has delivered two trips to the College World Series but never seemed to have the team to provide a baseball National Championship to the plains, but that could all change over the next month or so as the Tigers will remain in Alabama until the College World Series.

Then there’s the Tennessee Volunteers, who are trying to avoid falling to the two-seed line, where the Volunteers would face an uphill climb playing away from the friendly confines of Lindsey Nelson Stadium. Tennessee comes into the weekend road series at Arkansas with a 15-12 SEC record, facing a potential Tuesday game of the Southeastern Conference Tournament next week in Hoover. If the Razorbacks sweep the Vols this weekend at Baum Walker, there’s a world where the Volunteers could fall as low as a nine-seed with tiebreakers. Last weekend, Vanderbilt went into Knoxville and took two out of three from the Volunteers, forcing a sense of panic among Tennessee fans.

Other notable series to watch this weekend are Texas at Oklahoma, LSU traveling to South Carolina, Kentucky at Vanderbilt, and Alabama at Florida.

No matter where you turn this weekend, you could throw a rock and hit a high-caliber series with post implications on the line. In just six days, we’ll all be in Hoover with the dust settled on the regular season while each team battles for an SEC Tournament Championship, setting the tone to have momentum to be the last team standing in Omaha.

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