While your attention today is locked on legal proceedings in a Calhoun County, Mississippi courthouse, previewing Ole Miss baseball is a great way to pass the time before, between, and after ALL RISE, OBJECTION, MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT, SIDEBAR, YOUR HONAH, COUNSELOR YOU’RE ON A SHORT LEASH, I’D LIKE TO SEE BOTH PARTIES IN MY CHAMBERS, and THIS COURT WILL BE IN RECESS.
If you didn’t get the memo or were calculating how much money Ole Miss men’s basketball spent per win so far, the 2026 Ole Miss baseball season starts Friday in Oxford against Nevada. To get you ready for the next 4+ months (hopefully!), we’re throwing out nine lists of nine.
Though, if you’re reading an Ole Miss baseball preview, you already know the big picture stuff. Our purpose here today is to wade into the minutiae and margins and not scream about who’s starting at shortstop or the outfield rotation. But if the spirit moves you, feel free to do that in the comments.
9 Offensive Strategies for Scoring Lots of Runs in 2026
- Hit dingers
- Hit more dingers
- Hit even more dingers
- Hit even more dingers +1
- Hit all the dingers
- Hit a dinger after you just hit a dinger
- Dingers + Dingers + Dingers
- When in doubt, call the dinger play
- When pinch hitting, hit a dinger
You know, the basics. You may recall Ole Miss implemented this strategy in Game One of the 2022 College World Series championship series. Seemed to work pretty well.
9 Best Walkout Songs
Via Ole Miss baseball:
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
- Still Fly – Big Tymers
Nothing else comes close, so congratulations to Kelven Perera for his elite ear for music.
However, let’s give a shout-out to Terry Hayes Jr. and Blake Ilitch. In a completely deranged or genius choice, Hayes went with Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” which is a song about the band knowing they’re breaking apart because they hate each other yet trying to hold on.
Not exactly the song I’d go with for a team sport, but let him do his thing. Like I said, deranged or genius.
And finally Ilitch chose Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten,” which the real ones know was the theme song for MTV’s The Hills — one of the finest television shows ever (just behind Laguna Beach). LC, Lo, Whitney, Kristin, Jason, Justin Bobby, Spencer, Heidi. What a crew.
I’m a little disappointed no one picked a Bad Bunny song just for the comedic value of a few pants-shitting angry emails Keith Carter would get once a week.
9 Dates to Remember
- February 13th – Season opener against Nevada
- February 27th – Houston game against Baylor
- February 28th – Houston game against Ohio State
- February 29th – Houston game against Coastal Carolina
- March 13th* – SEC opener against Texas in Austin
- March 19th – SEC home opener against Kentucky
- March 27th – Mississippi State comes to Oxford
- April 10th – LSU comes to Oxford
- June 12th – SEE YOU IN OMAHA
*Everyone can stay at my house.**
**Jk, everyone cannot stay at my house.
9 (of 10) SEC Series Power Rankings
This factors in the location of the series.
- LSU (Oxford)
- Mississippi State (Oxford)
- Texas A&M (Oxford)
- Tennessee (Knoxville)
- Arkansas (Fayetteville)
- Texas (Austin)
- Georgia (Oxford)
- Kentucky (Oxford)
- Florida (Gainesville)
Sorry to Alabama and Tuscaloosa, but that’s a hard pass.
9 Peak Fraternity Names on the Roster
- Brayden Randle
- Bryden Bull (BRYDEN BULL)
- Cannon Goldin
- Topher Jones
- Dom Decker
- Grayson Gibson
- Tate Sirmans
- Hudson Calhoun
- Cade Townsend
9 Character Names if the Roster Decided to Make a Fast and Furious Movie
- Dom Decker
- Bryden Bull
- Cannon Goldin
- Hayden Federico
- Marko Sipila
- Judd Utermark
- Tristan Bissetta
- Terry Hayes Jr.
- Leo Odom
SALUTE, MI FAMILIA.
9 Players Born After Ole Miss Lost to Texas in the 2005 Super Regional
Look, I didn’t want to do this, but once the thought got in my head, I had to make everyone else feel older than dirt.
- Bryden Bull
- Brett Moseley
- Cannon Goldin
- Owen Paino
- Topher Jones
- Tate Sirmans
- Hayden Federico
- Kelven Perera
- Luke Romine
AND THE LIST COULD KEEP GOING.
WHAT A TERRIBLE IDEA.
MOVING ON.
9 Potential TRIAL LAWYA Names on the Roster
Speaking of activities in Calhoun County, Mississippi:
- Tate Sirmans
- Cooper Johnson
- Walker Hooks
- Landon Waters
- Terry Hayes Jr.
- JP Robertson
- Evan Farrow
- Taylor Rabe
- Leo Odom
9 Out-of-State Destinations Based on Non-Conference Opponents
- Reno, Nevada
- Waco, Texas
- Columbus, Ohio
- Conway, South Carolina
- Jonesboro, Arkansas
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Springfield, Missouri
- Evansville, Indiana
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri
I’m not here to tell anyone how to vacation, but from personal experience, Waco and Jonesboogie would not be in the top seven choices here.
This is also an opportunity to recognize No Laying Up’s Randy and Neil in the Strapped series when they went to Reno some years back. Not because the Reno trip was so eventful, but because Strapped is one of the good things on the internet.
Bonus List: One Mike Bianco walkout song
When it’s time for him to change pitchers or tell the umpires they’re trash, there’s only one song to play: