Eight series. Twenty-three games. The College World Series field is set. Seven supers ended in sweeps. The only series that went the distance was in Chapel Hill — and the home team still won it.

Two of the eight programs heading to Omaha have never been before. The other six played the kind of weekend the bracket was supposed to deliver, and the upset that did land was the one most likely to land: Ole Miss in Auburn.

Here is how all eight series played out.

Austin — Texas in 2 (Texas sweeps Oregon)

Texas came out hot. Dylan Volantis was the story of Game 1 — ten strikeouts and two earned runs across 5.1 innings in an 11-3 rout. Oregon's lineup is built for one big inning. The Longhorns' Friday starter did not give them one.

Game 2 got interesting. Texas jumped Oregon early with back-to-back solo shots from Aidan Robbins and Carson Tinney to lead off the bottom of the first, added two more in the second, and looked like a team that was about to coast. Oregon had other ideas. The Ducks chipped the lead all the way back and took a 5-4 lead in the seventh on an RBI ground out. Then, in the bottom of the eighth, two outs, the Longhorns answered: Rodriguez doubled down the left field line to push the go-ahead runs across and put Texas back in front 6-5. Sam Cozart closed the last two innings to lock it down. Rodriguez finished the series with seven RBI across two games. Texas is back in Omaha.

Athens — Georgia in 2 (Georgia sweeps Mississippi State)

Mississippi State did not go quietly. The Bulldogs traded haymakers with Georgia for two days — 13-12 on Friday, 11-9 on Saturday — in a series where neither bullpen looked safe and neither lineup ever stopped scoring. Mississippi State's regional run through Starkville was built on the same offense, and they brought it to Foley Field.

Georgia's bats just keep getting hot at the right moment. The Bulldogs trailed in both games of this series and rallied in both. That is the version of this Georgia team that wins in Omaha — a lineup that does not need to be ahead to feel comfortable, and just enough pitching to hold leads in the late innings once they get them. Five SEC teams are going to Omaha. Georgia is one of them.

Troy — Troy in 2 (Troy sweeps Little Rock)

History. Troy is going to the College World Series at the Division I level for the first time ever. The Trojans had reached the D2 CWS seven times in program history; this is the first D1 trip, and it is the third Sun Belt program to ever make it to Omaha at this level — after 2025 Coastal Carolina and 2000 Louisiana.

The Trojans rolled. They opened with a 12-2 statement on Friday, then handed the ball to senior right-hander Tommy Egan in Game 2. Egan turned in a gem in a 7-2 close. Riddle-Pace Field set its single-game attendance record on Saturday at 7,033 — the second-largest on-campus crowd in Sun Belt baseball history. A 3-seed turned the Gainesville Regional into a host site and turned the host site into Omaha. The bracket-buster ride did not stop at the supers.

Chapel Hill — North Carolina in 3 (UNC over USC)

The only series of the eight that needed a Sunday game, and it was the host that needed the comeback. USC took Game 1 9-5 on Friday, riding the same loser's-bracket fight that won them seven games in College Station. Chapel Hill answered on Saturday with a 4-0 shutout to force a Sunday. The Trojans had played through the loser's bracket once already and now had to do it again on three days of arms.

Game 3 was 4-3, the closest of the weekend. North Carolina found a run when it needed it and protected the lead late. UNC is the lone ACC team in Omaha. This was the only super where the home team did not win in two — and the home team still won.

Tuscaloosa — Alabama in 2 (Alabama sweeps St. John's)

Cinderella's slipper came off in Tuscaloosa. Alabama opened with an 8-0 shutout on Friday and finished the job 7-2 on Saturday. The Crimson Tide looked like a team that decided after the Oklahoma State regional final that it was done playing close games. St. John's, the No. 4 seed that had won everywhere it went, never got a foothold in either game.

Alabama looks like it belongs. The bats produced runs without dramatics. The arms quieted a Red Storm lineup that had carried this team since opening night in Tallahassee. Two SEC teams are in Omaha from the right side of the bracket. Alabama is one of them, and this is what the version of Alabama that contends in June looks like.

Morgantown — West Virginia in 2 (WVU sweeps Cal Poly)

The Mountaineers' first College World Series appearance is on the books, and the supers were not close. 12-2 on Thursday. 17-1 on Friday. West Virginia hit, the staff dominated, and a Cal Poly team that had earned every benefit of the doubt after Los Angeles got rolled in front of a Morgantown crowd that has waited a long time for this.

This felt personal. The picks in the lead-up week leaned heavily toward Cal Poly — the bracket-buster story, the upset that captured regional weekend, the run that "proved it could happen on the road." West Virginia took the field looking annoyed about it and played like a team that wanted the question answered in two games. Country roads, all the way to Omaha. The program's first trip.

Lawrence — Oklahoma in 2 (Oklahoma sweeps Kansas)

Oklahoma kept rolling. The Sooners came up through the Atlanta Regional out of the loser's bracket, won a winner-take-all game on Monday, and never slowed down. 8-1 on Friday, 13-2 on Saturday — the Lawrence crowd never got the home half it was waiting for. Kansas had carried the regional with bats and crowd noise. Neither showed up against an OU team playing the cleanest baseball of any survivor in this round.

Old Big 12 stakes, new SEC ledger. Oklahoma is back in Omaha, and they make five SEC schools in the field — the Sooners are the one most people did not have at the start of the regional round.

Auburn — Ole Miss in 2 (Ole Miss sweeps Auburn)

Ole Miss got the upset of the supers, but it is not really the surprise it looked like on paper. The Rebels were the team that played the cleanest baseball at any point in this tournament — back-to-back extra-inning wins over Arizona State in Lincoln, the kind of bullpen depth that wins June series. They beat Auburn 6-4 on Friday and 5-3 on Saturday in a series where the Tigers led at points and could not hold either one.

Auburn's pitching plan never quite stabilized after the Milwaukee scare. Jake Marciano's regional opener — six runs in one inning against the Panthers — pulled the rotation out of shape, and there was no version of the next two weekends where it ever got fully back to where it needed to be to win a series against an offense like this. The No. 4 national seed is out. Ole Miss is in.

The Omaha Eight

West Virginia. Troy. North Carolina. Texas. Georgia. Alabama. Oklahoma. Ole Miss.

Two first-timers — WVU and Troy — opening the College World Series against each other in Omaha. Five SEC programs in the field if you count Oklahoma in its new home, four if you count by zip code. One ACC team in UNC. One Sun Belt program writing program-defining history. One Big 12 program writing the same.

The bracket comes to Omaha next.