NCAA Baseball
College World Series
2019 Results
Vanderbilt is the 2019 National Champion, taking 2 out of 3 from Michigan.
Texas Tech and Louisville are both eliminated at 2-2 as
Michigan and Vanderbilt both enter the championship series undefeated.
The final series starts Monday, June 24, after a full day of rest for both teams.
Florida State and Mississippi State are the next teams eliminated at 1-2.
Arkansas went 0-2 and BBQ to become the first team eliminated,
followed by Auburn after a major weather delay.
Although I try to minimize commentary on this site, I would be
remiss in my duties if I did not document that Mike Martin is closing out his
40th year as head coach at Florida State with his 17th appearance in the CWS.
It is remarkable that his teams have made the tournament 40 times in his 40 years
of coaching with at least 40 wins in each of those years.
This season was the closest call, as FSU did not get to 40 wins until
after the NCAA tournament started. To be frank, I did not expect them to make the
tournament at all. In my opinion, they only got in because of subjective factors.
The committee overlooked some awful loses to unranked teams because of some brilliant
wins over much higher ranked opponents. What FSU did during Regional and Super Regional
play rewarded that confidence. Again, in my opinion, one of the reasons FSU has
an 0-17 record under him in the CWS is that his coaching got them much further in
the tournament than one would otherwise expect, but he didn't make quite as much
out of his best teams than others would have. I'll live with that.
Martin's record now stands at 2029-736-4.
It has been my pleasure to see at least one of those wins in each of
those 40 seasons even though, for the record, I am not a diehard FSU fan.
The standings are organized to reflect the fact that
we have, in effect, a structure identical to a pair of regionals
feeding into a best 2-of-3 super regional for the championship.
The seeding numbers indicate the national seeding of the team in
each of the original regional pairs. For details of how these teams
got here, visit my regional results page.
Standings have been reordered to reflect results.
Current Standings
seed team CWS record CB BA ISR' ISR
---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- ---
1 * Michigan (3-0) 46-20 8 .. 116 114
N8. Texas Tech (2-2) 44-18 5 9 122 122
4. Florida St (1-2) 41-21 6 .. 114 111
N5. Arkansas (0-2) 46-18 2 4 123 122
---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- ---
N2 * Vanderbilt (3-0) 54-11 1 2 130 130
N7. Louisville (2-2) 49-16 4 11 121 120
N6. Miss. State (1-2) 51-13 3 5 126 125
3. Auburn (0-2) 38-26 7 .. 118 116
---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- ---
Records are from after the Super Regionals, before CWS.
Only the Collegiate Baseball poll was updated after the regionals (on 6/4 and on 6/11).
Baseball America has not updated its poll since 5/27, the end of the regular season.
The ranking
produced by Boyd Nation before regional play (5/27) is
listed under ISR, while that after the Super Regionals is under ISR'.
Bracket Results
# indicates the home team because I list these brackets with the higher seed on top.
Home team initially goes to the team with the higher national seed. For those seeded 1-8,
which are indicated with an N in these tables, it is obvious who should be the home team.
Teams with a lower (9-16) national seeding are not flagged here, so you need to look
back at the regional results to see if a 1 seed from
the lower half of a regional pairing got through. There were none this year.
I assume they use the regional seeding (2 for Auburn and 3 for both Michigan and FSU)
if that proves necessary at the start, but after that I think it is done by who has been
the home team more often with a coin flip to break a tie.
First (1-4-5-8) bracket:
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1. Michigan 5
N8. Texas Tech 3#
Michigan 2 Michigan 15#
Florida St 0# Texas Tech 3
4. Florida St 1 Florida St 1#
N5. Arkansas 0# Texas Tech 4
Arkansas 4
Texas Tech 5#
Second (2-3-6-7) bracket:
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N2. Vanderbilt 3#
N7. Louisville 1
Vanderbilt 6 Vanderbilt 3
Miss. St 3# Louisville 2#
3. Auburn 4 Miss. St 3
N6. Miss. State 5# Louisville 4#
Auburn 3#
Louisville 5
Championship Games (best 2 of 3)
Michigan 220 000 210 - 7 14 1
Vanderbilt 020 001 001 - 4 5 1
Vanderbilt 000 012 100 - 4 6 2
Michigan 000 000 100 - 1 4 2
Michigan 100 000 010 - 2 6 0
Vanderbilt 013 200 11x - 8 9 0