BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After originally announcing the league schedule for all teams in September, the Southeastern Conference has released the corrected conference slate after having to recall the 2023 baseball schedule due to an error in the scheduling process that resulted in two series appearing on the slate that are not scheduled to take place until 2024.
Due to those changes, Tennessee’s league schedule will feature a new opponent, as the Volunteers will now travel to Fayetteville to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks in mid April instead of playing Auburn. UT’s other nine opponents remain the same, but the order in which those series will be played has been rearranged. The full updated schedule can be seen below.
The defending SEC champion Vols will now open their SEC slate on the road at Missouri (March 17-19) before hosting Texas A&M for their SEC home opener the next weekend (March 24-26).
UT’s other conference home series include matchups against eastern division foes Florida (April 7-9), Vanderbilt (April 21-23) and Kentucky (May 12-14), as well as a showdown with Mississippi State (April 28-30) from the western division.
On top of its visit to CoMo to take on the Tigers, Tennessee is also slated to play road series at LSU (March 31-April 2), Arkansas (April 14-16) and Georgia (May 5-7) before wrapping up league play with a trip to Columbia to take on South Carolina (May 18-20).
The SEC Tournament will once again be held at the Hoover Met in Hoover, Alabama. The first round of the tournament will be on May 23 and the championship game will be played on May 28.
The Vols are coming off an historic season in 2022, setting a new program record with 57 victories en route to winning SEC Regular Season and SEC Tournament titles. The Big Orange achieved the program’s first No. 1 national ranking in any poll and were ranked No. 1 in at least one poll during 12 weeks of the season while spending 10 weeks as the nation’s unanimous top-ranked team.
Tennessee led the nation in numerous statistical categories while setting a handful of program records along the way, including new marks for home runs (158), runs scored (613), RBIs (574), slugging percentage (.604), ERA (2.51), WHIP (1.00), opponent batting average (.199), strikeouts (695), strikeouts/nine innings (10.5) and walks allowed/nine innings (2.48), among others.
UT’s full 2023 SEC schedule can be seen below. All series except for South Carolina (Thursday-Saturday) are currently scheduled to be played Friday-Sunday but are subject to change to Thursday-Saturday based on television. Any series changed to Thursday-Saturday will be announced at a later date.
Tennessee Baseball 2023 SEC Schedule
Mar. 17-19: at Missouri
Mar. 24-26: TEXAS A&M
Mar. 31-April 2: at LSU
April 7-9: FLORIDA
April 14-16: at Arkansas
April 21-23: VANDERBILT
Apr. 28-30: MISSISSIPPI STATE
May 5-7: at Georgia
May 12-14: KENTUCKY
May 18-20: at South Carolina
BOLD = Home Series
-UT Athletics
