Toad to Omaha Starts Now

TCU is back in the postseason, but faces an uphill battle to make it back to the College World Series.

After a brief one-year hiatus, the TCU baseball team is back in the postseason and is ready to attempt to make the long trek to Omaha.

It might be a stretch to call this season a great one so far for the Frogs — they didn’t win the Big 12 in the regular season or in the tournament — but it’s certainly been a good one. There’s no doubt that what TCU has done in 2025 has been an improvement over what 2024 was, with the most glaring evidence being that last year’s team failed to make the tournament while this year’s squad is in the field.

The Frogs were snubbed, though. When we all look back at the 2025 college baseball season, I believe that we’ll all collectively facepalm at the fact that TCU is not hosting a regional in Fort Worth. You’re telling me that eight Big 12 schools made the cut, but none of them are hosting? Not buying the logic behind that, señor.

In all seriousness, it’s truly baffling to me that the selection committee believed that the Big 12 was the third-best conference by awarding it eight bids, but couldn’t even hand over one little host spot to TCU, Arizona, Kansas, or West Virginia. It’s blasphemy!

Alas, all those schools will have to get past the snubbery (not a word, I know) and get ready to pull off an upset in their respective regionals. For TCU, that means making the long trek up to Corvallis where they’ve been grouped into a regional that consists of No. 8 overall seed Oregon State, as well as USC and Saint Mary’s.

Starting with TCU, let’s briefly analyze what’s going on for each squad.