CWS game today ends with North Carolina and Oklahoma tied 1-1 in the Men's College World Series finals, setting up a winner-take-all Game 3 on Monday night at 7 p.m. ET. The winner at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha will leave as the DI baseball national champion.
Oklahoma opened the finals with a 9-3 win in Game 1, then North Carolina answered with a 6-2 victory in Game 2. That split pushed the series to its final night, with both dugouts carrying the pressure of one game deciding the title.
Glauber Gave North Carolina Life
Caden Glauber supplied the turn in Game 2. The ACC Freshman of the Year threw a one-hit, five-inning shutout, and North Carolina used that outing to level the series before the teams met again.
Jackson Rose and Nick Wesloski were the freshman starters lined up for Game 3, which made the final feel like a matchup built on arms that had already carried heavy loads. Rose had allowed zero runs and three hits across 12 innings in the tournament, while Wesloski had started both of Oklahoma's appearances.
Rose And Wesloski At Charles Schwab Field
Rose entered the title game with a clean tournament line and a short path to the mound if North Carolina needed to keep turning over innings. Scott Forbes was expected to have a quick trigger when he turned to the bullpen, and that fits the way championship games often tighten once the starters hand over the ball.
Wesloski arrived with a deeper recent workload. He had thrown seven innings against The Citadel in regionals, allowing five runs, three earned, on six hits, and he also worked 5.2 innings against Georgia, giving up three runs, one earned, on four hits. Skip Johnson had already asked him to cover important outs, and Game 3 put that usage under a final test.
One Game For The Title
The setup left no margin. North Carolina and Oklahoma came through the finals by splitting the first two games, then reached the final day of the 2026 season with the championship still undecided. The game at Charles Schwab Field was scheduled for 7 p.m. ET, with 79 degrees, sunny skies and no chance of rain before first pitch; sunset was not expected until 10 p.m. ET.
Both clubs had leaned on different pitchers to get this far, and the title game asked which staff could survive the longest without breaking. The answer would decide the national champion that night.
