Louisiana Baseball Releases 2026 Baseball Schedule

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A home slate featuring reigning national champion LSU, College World Series finalist Coastal Carolina and non-conference series against Missouri State, Maryland, Kansas State and Stony Brook highlights the 2026 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball schedule released Wednesday.


Louisiana will play 35 games at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field at Russo Park, including 15 Sun Belt Conference contests. League play begins March 13-15 at home against South Alabama, with additional series set against ULM (March 27-29), Southern Miss (April 10-12), Georgia State (May 1-3) and Coastal Carolina (May 14-16).

The Ragin' Cajuns officially open the season at home on Mardi Gras weekend against Missouri State (Feb. 13-15) and will also host Maryland (Feb. 20-22) and Stony Brook (Feb. 27-March 1) in early non-conference series. Louisiana will close out its non-conference weekend slate at Dallas Baptist (March 6-8), with midweek road trips set for Rice (February 17), Houston (March 18), and McNeese (March 31).

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[ZoomZoom]

No Necksters? Interesting.

[ragncajncouyon]

Who is our pitching coach? Sandefur isn't listed on staff on the website?

[HOUCajun]

2 games in Houston!! And the final conf trip to San Marvelous

[Jacob81]

Now that we are talking baseball, how bad is the pac12 going to be outside of Oregon state in baseball? Most of the schools don’t even play baseball. OSU, tx st, Gonzaga, SDSU, Fresno st

Pretty sure Boise, Utah st, Colorado state, Washington state don’t play baseball

[MarlinMan3]

Add 'em to the conference skedule anyway = forfeits.

They always tell us we must be in conf for all sports.

[Tejun]

Now that we are talking baseball, how bad is the pac12 going to be outside of Oregon state in baseball? Most of the schools don’t even play baseball. OSU, tx st, Gonzaga, SDSU, Fresno st

Pretty sure Boise, Utah st, Colorado state, Washington state don’t play baseball

The conference will be a potential 2 bid league. OSU, Gonzaga, SDSU, Fresno, Washington State(Does have baseball) with the additions of TXST and Dallas Baptist(27).

[lcitsh]

Here's a little breakdown of the non-conference opponents:

Dates/Team/2025 RPI rank/Overall record/Site
2/13-15/Missouri State/174/30-25/Home
2/17/Rice/210/17-40/Away
2/20-22/Maryland/127/27-29/Home
2/24-25/Kansas State/40/32-26/Home
2/27-3/1/Stony Brook/151/25-27/Home
3/4/LSU/4/53-15/Home
3/6-8/Dallas Baptist/21/41-18/Away
3/10/Texas-Rio Grande Valley/43/36-18/Home
3/11 & 31/McNeese/84/29-16/Home and Away
3/18/Houston/95/30-25/Away
3/24 & 4/8/Southeastern Louisiana/51/37-16/Away and Home
3/25/Texas Southern/276/20-32/Home
4/21/Grambling/25-28/Home
4/29/Nicholls State/198/17-32/Home
5/5/New Orleans/113/27-26/Home

15 non-conference opponents, 26 games, 20 of them at home. 12 of the 26 against top 100 teams, 10 games 150+. 6 of the 15 had losing records, 3 of the 15 were in the NCAA tournament.

Some takeaways: too many home games. The pressure will be on them to win at least 15 or 16 of those games with the only "acceptable" losses being to Kansas State, LSU, Southeastern and, possibly, UTRGV. If they lose at Hammond, they have to win in Lafayette. They need at least one win at DBU. There are not enough quality opponents on the schedule to justify an at large bid unless the Cajuns just dominate their non-conference opponents. My assessments, of course, will be dependent on the types of seasons these opponents have, but it is unlikely there will be much improvement from any of the teams from last year to this. We'll see when February gets here.