Texas Longhorns Secure Record 39th College World Series Trip to Omaha

Adam Roarty | 08/06/2026
Texas baseball team celebrates on field after clinching record 39th College World Series appearance

Texas has punched its ticket to Omaha for a record 39th time, extending a college baseball dynasty so entrenched that the next closest program isn’t even in the same conversation.

Texas got two late eighth-inning runs to top the Oregon Ducks 6-5 in Game 2 of the Austin Super Regional. UT sweeps the series 2-0 and heads to Omaha for the first time since 2022.

No program is remotely close to 39 appearances. Miami (FL) and Arizona State are tied for second with 25 trips each. 

What 39 Trips to Omaha Actually Means for This Program

Texas has been to the Men’s College World Series in every decade since the 1940s. Six national titles – in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, and 2005 – sit alongside those 39 appearances.

The program has done it under five different head coaches: Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson, Augie Garrido, David Pierce, and now Jim Schlossnagle.

Gustafson and Garrido combined for more than 20 MCWS trips between them across nearly four decades on the bench in Austin.

Coach Glad To Change The Record Number

Schlossnagle was under no illusions that just making it to Omaha was enough.

“Here, I know the standard is the national title,” Schlossnagle said, “and we’ll certainly do our best to win that. But I have to walk by that locker-room sign every day. It says 38 trips to Omaha, and 38 has been sitting there for a while. So I’m glad we’ll at least be able to change it.”

The win was their fifth in a row in the postseason, and corrects the team’s failure to advance out of a host regional in 2025. The Longhorns will now face SEC champion Georgia in the opening round on Saturday.

Schlossnagle has made a career in college baseball and has over 1,000 career Division I wins. His career may justify other college coaches turning down advances from major leagues, such as recently in Notre Dame.

The Longhorns are now hoping to capture a seventh national crown and their first since 2005. 

Late Rally Seals Spot

The outcome was in doubt when the Ducks scored two runs on bleeders against the Longhorns’ infield shift and two more on RBI groundouts to take a brief 5-4 lead in the seventh.

Cooney started off the rally in the seventh with a double off the left-center field fence and advancing to third on a passed ball. Burns came on and gave up the go-ahead run on Brayden Jaksa’s RBI groundout in the hole on a terrific play by Rodriguez before striking out two batters.

“It’s always been a dream of mine to go to Omaha,” said Rodriguez, who has 11 hits in 19 postseason at-bats.

With the Brandon Sorsby scandal engulfing Texas Tech, the triumph for the Longhorns brings joy across the state in Austin.

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