Tennessee baseball remains a top eight national seed in postseason projections despite its recent slide.

The Vols, who have lost two-straight SEC series and three of their last four, were the 6-seed in the latest D1Baseball Field of 64 projection on Wednesday, down two spots after being the 4-seed two weeks ago.

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The projection has Tennessee (36-9, 13-8 SEC) hosting the Knoxville Regional at Lindsey Nelson Stadium with UTSA, Duke and Holy Cross making up the rest of the field.

The regional is paired with the Corvallis Regional with 11-seed Oregon State, Oregon, Kansas State and Sacramento State.

The Vols have hosted a Knoxville Regional and Super Regional in three of the last four years, including a sweep of both on their way to their first-ever College World Series title in 2025.

Tennessee is one of 13 SEC teams projected to make the postseason and one of XXX teams from the league among the top eight national seeds with Texas (1), LSU (2), and Arkansas (4) making the cut.

Vanderbilt (9), Georgia (10) and Auburn (14) were also projected as national seeds.

The Vols are coming off of its second consecutive series loss at LSU last weekend after dropping the series to Texas A&M and Kentucky at home in the previous three weeks, but Tennessee has three more weeks and three-straight top 15 series to close out the regular season and potentially bolster their resume.

It starts this weekend against No. 10 Auburn in a three-game series at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Friday (6:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network+). The Tigers (31-14, 11-10) have series wins over Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Alabama and LSU and have won three of their last four series.

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"(Auburn has) always been good. They’ve always been well coached," Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello said. "They’ve always been competitive. But I think this year, they’ve got a lot of older hitters... I just think they got probably a good group of guys. They probably feel good about the way they’re playing as far as the guys in the locker room.

"But the program they have down there, it’s the same to me, and that’s more of a compliment than it is.”

The Vols host Indiana State and Belmont in midweek, non-conference play over the next three weeks with series against No. 9 Vanderbilt at home and at No. 5 Arkansas left before the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Alabama begins later this month.

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