{"id":328102,"date":"2026-06-08T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328102\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:21:09","slug":"georgia-texas-cws-opener-set-for-saturday-at-8-pm-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328102\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia-Texas CWS Opener Set For Saturday At 8 PM ET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA, Neb. \u2013\u00a0The NCAA announced the dates and times for every game of the 2026 Men&#8217;s College World Series beginning on Friday, June 12 and ending on Monday, June 22.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia (51-12) will open play in Omaha on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET against Texas (45-13) on ESPN. Should the Bulldogs win that game, they will next play on Monday, June 15 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN against the winner of Oklahoma and Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>If they lose to Texas on Saturday, they will play at 2 p.m. ET on Monday against the loser of the Oklahoma-Alabama matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs will be playing in the CWS for the first time since 2008 and the seventh time in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia is in its third season under Ike Cousins head baseball coach Wes\u00a0Johnson. The 2026\u00a0Bulldogs\u00a0captured the SEC regular season title for the first time since 2008, claimed the SEC Tournament title for the first time in program history and then\u00a0step\u00a0through an NCAA Athens Regional and Super Regional. The 51 wins ranks second behind the 1990 national champions that finished 52-19.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE BULLDOGS: For the latest\u00a0Georgia\u00a0baseball\u00a0news, visit\u00a0<a data-ogsc=\"rgb(150, 96, 125)\" data-outlook-id=\"ff998c25-75d9-458e-b2c0-fe4ff6e51a4d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiadogs.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.georgiadogs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.georgiadogs.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow the Bulldogs on X (@BaseballUGA), Facebook (@GeorgiaBaseball) and Instagram (@baseballuga).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. \u2013\u00a0The NCAA announced the dates and times for every game of the 2026 Men&#8217;s College World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-328102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}