2020 SEC Baseball Television Schedule

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ESPN will present more than 1,000 NCAA baseball games during the 2020 regular season across ESPN networks, with 17 college conferences highlighted in ESPN’s industry-leading coverage. During the postseason, on top of carrying the entire Southeastern Conference tournament, 153 games will be televised across ESPN Networks, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, SEC Network, with all college baseball action available on the ESPN App.

 

Two-thirds of the games on ESPN networks include a team in the USA TODAY Coaches Preseason Top 25*, while 82 games feature the preseason top 10 and 48 games highlight at least one top five team. 23 of the preseason Top 25 teams will appear on ESPN networks during the season.

 

The SEC starts the season with nine teams ranked in the preseason Top 25, the most of any conference. With 75 games on the network throughout the spring, SEC Thursday Night Baseball will be in full swing on ESPNU and SEC Network, featuring a preseason Top 25 team in every week of the regular season. In addition, SEC Network will join forces with ESPNU to televise the final weekend of SEC action, May 14-16.

 

ESPN is coming off one of the most-watched NCAA Division I Baseball Championships in history, matching 2018’s record-breaking viewership numbers throughout the Road to Omaha. The winner-take-all Game 3 of the 2019 NCAA College World Series saw more than 2 million viewers tune in to watch Vanderbilt defeat Michigan and capture their second NCAA title in six years. The CWS champions are slated for at least a dozen appearances on ESPN networks this spring.

 

2020 College Baseball Schedule Highlights:

• Top-Ranked Teams Take to the Field: The schedule includes 64 matchups with two ranked teams going head-to-head, headlined by No. 2 Louisville taking on top-ranked Vanderbilt at Hawkins Field on Tuesday, May 5 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2. ESPN’s robust schedule of ranked SEC squads also includes:

• • No. 5 Arkansas at No. 6 Mississippi State

• • • Sat, March 14 at 1 p.m. (SEC Network)

• • No. 14 Florida State vs. No. 10 Florida

• • • Tue, Mar 24 at 7 p.m. (SEC Network)

• • No. 10 Florida at No. 5 Arkansas

• • • Thu, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. (ESPNU)

• • No. 12 LSU at No. 21 Texas A&M

• • • Sun, May 3 at 5 p.m. (ESPNU)

• • No. 1 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Florida

• • • Thu, May 7 at 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
    • Fri, May 8 at 6:30 p.m. (ESPNU)
    • Sat, May 9 at 1 p.m. (SEC Network)

• • No. 4 Georgia at No. 5 Arkansas

• • • Sat, May 9 at 1 p.m. (ESPN2)

• Conference Championship Central: All games for the SEC Baseball Tournament will air on SEC Network and ESPN2, with additional digital coverage on SECNetwork.com.
• Postseason Plans on Deck: ESPN will cover up to 153 postseason games beginning with NCAA Regionals. ESPNU starts the slate with the NCAA Baseball Selection Show on Monday, May 25 at noon. Complete postseason coverage will be announced at a later date.

 

*Rankings based on USA Today Coaches Poll as of January 23