Where the Big Ten's Top 50 in OPS is in 2025

 

Shifting away from the mechanics of the 2025 season, there's only so much fun in drilling into schedules, it's time to look at the players that will impact those to-be played games.

Power Four* Non-conference Series

With the Big Ten Conference adding four programs, alongside the Pacific Time zone, there was no doubt going to be changes to its baseball schedule. For the last ten seasons, the Big Ten has had a nine-week, eight-opponent conference slate. The 2025 schedule welcomes a sizeable change in intra-conference showdowns.

Big Ten Baseball Bye Week Opponents

After a look at how, when, and where Big Ten teams are playing in tournaments that litter the calendar before conference play begins, here's a look at who, when and where Big Ten teams will play outside of conference play during their bye week, when the conference season begins the weekend of March 7.

The Big Ten's Non-conference Tournament Rundown

 

The mid-February start to the college baseball season is, for lack of better words, not ideal for northern programs and fans. Between preseason practice often relegated indoors, or on turfed fields where snow is piled along the foul lines, in the event the temperature is warm enough to venture out, and the need to travel to locations south and west to start the season until the calendar turns to March, the date of college baseball's opening day its neither logistically fun nor conducive to much fanfare for those of us in this part of the country.

But there is one aspect of February college baseball I deeply enjoy: the neutral site tournament.

The New West Coast Neighbors

It's still a strange reality, but it is the reality nonetheless. The 2025 college baseball season will see Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington compete against Iowa, Penn State, Purdue and Rutgers, and their nine peers, for the Big Ten conference crown. 

2025 Big Ten Baseball Preseason Hub

Here's a hub of preseason Big Ten content to get ready for the 2025 season.