Jim Schlossnagle Era Begins For Texas At 2025 College Baseball Showdown
Jim Schlossnagle Era Begins For Texas At 2025 College Baseball Showdown
Texas has a new baseball coach – Jim Schlossnagle – and he’ll make his debut at the 2025 Shriners Children’s College Showdown in Arlington, Texas.
Texas Longhorns baseball boasts a history that spans more than 130 years, and while some may consider the University of Texas at Austin a football school, there’s no way to ignore the immense amount of success the baseball program has had.
The UT baseball team is among the winningest in history, and that includes six national championships.
The quest for title No. 7 will begin against Louisville at the 2025 Shriners Children’s College Showdown on Friday, and it will happen under the guidance of a new head coach – Jim Schlossnagle.
- Subscribe To FloCollege To Watch The 2025 College Baseball Showdown
- College Baseball Rankings 2025: Here’s Every Preseason Top 25 Poll
- Best Walk-Up Songs To Prepare For The College Baseball Season
Schlossnagle has been one of the most successful coaches in the collegiate ranks for the last two decades, making his way across the vast Lone Star State at the helm of the TCU (2004-2021) and Texas A&M (2022-2024) baseball teams, before making the 90-mile move from College Station to Austin for the 2025 season.
The formal announcement of Schlossnagle’s hiring came in June 2024, shortly after Texas A&M came within a game of winning the 2024 NCAA Men’s College World Series.
Schlossnagle and the Aggies fell to Tennessee 2-1 in the best-of-three CWS final in Omaha, Nebraska. It was the conclusion of a landmark season that included a 53-15 record for Texas A&M.
Under Schlossnagle, the Aggies were 18-6 in the postseason and 6-4 in CWS games.
About Texas Baseball Coach Jim Schlossnagle
Over the last 10 years, Schlossnagle led his TCU/Texas A&M teams to Omaha six times, including trips to the Midwest Mecca for Texas A&M in 2022 and 2024. His 50 wins (50-22/.694) in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship during the stretch is the best of any coach.
In all, Schlossnagle has been to the CWS seven times – five with TCU and two with Texas A&M. Prior to his tour of Texas, he spent two seasons as the head coach at UNLV.
In his 23 seasons as a collegiate head coach, his teams have advanced to the NCAA Tournament 20 times, and after his 18 years at TCU, he left Fort Worth with a program-best record of 734-346. His overall record as a head coach reads like a phone number. He’s 946-455.
Off the field, Schlossnagle has been president of the American Baseball Coaches Association, he has been recognized as the national coach of the year on two occasions – National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association in 2010 and Baseball America in 2016 – and he has been named conference coach of the year eight times.
Texas Baseball Before Jim Schlossnagle
Schlossnagle inherited a Texas team that ranks second all-time with more than 3,700 program victories and has been to the Men’s College World Series a record 38 times. The first came in 1949, and the most recent was 2022.
The Longhorns have hoisted the coveted national championship trophy six times (1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, 2005) and have finished as the runners-up six times.
The first year of baseball action at the University of Texas was 1895. Since then, the Longhorns also have amassed 80 regular-season conference titles and 16 conference tournament wins.
Last year’s Texas team finished 36-24 overall and 20-10 in the Big 12, finishing third in the regular-season standings. Two quick losses in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship saw the dream of a final conference title go away, while a win and two losses saw the season come to a close at the NCAA College Station Regional.
When Schlossnagle and the Longhorns take the field in Arlington, Texas, this week, a new head coach won’t be the only significant change to navigate, and that’s another prime place for his experience and expertise to come in.
The Longhorns also will be making a move to a new conference, and while it definitely is the most dominant in college baseball, it’s not completely unfamiliar.
Texas, and former Big 12 foe Oklahoma, have moved to the Southeastern Conference for the 2025 season.
While the SEC, winner of every Division I baseball national title since 2019, is going to be a tough place to play, that’s where Schlossnagle just came from. He helped Texas A&M to a 19-11 conference record and second place in the SEC-West last year.
Now, that team has earned the No. 1 spot in the 2025 D1Baseball Preseason Top 25 Rankings, and six SEC team overall have landed in the top 10.
Schlossnagle and his Longhorns weren’t left out, however. They went from not being ranked to finding the No. 19 spot on the preseason list.
tune in NOW for the @CoachSchloss introductory press conference 🤘
— Texas Baseball (@TexasBaseball) June 26, 2024
📺 https://t.co/NbWzTRwLym#HookEm pic.twitter.com/i5jf628yYd
The Jim Schlossnagle Era At Texas Begins Feb. 14
The Shriners Children’s College Showdown again is being held at Globe Life Field in Arlington, home of the world champion Texas Rangers, as part of three exciting weekends of college baseball in Texas.
The schedule includes the Shriners Children’s College Showdown (Feb. 14-16), Amegy Bank College Baseball Series presented by Kubota Weekend 2 (Feb. 21-23) and Amegy Bank College Baseball Series presented by Kubota Weekend 3 (Feb. 28-March 2).
There also will be midweek games on Feb. 18, Feb. 19, Feb. 26 and March 5.
The Longhorns will play three games during the first weekend of action in Arlington, including an SEC preview against Ole Miss on Feb. 15. Their season-opening contest will come against Louisville on Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Schlossnagle’s first home game at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin will be Feb. 18 against Houston as part of a five-game homestand.
SEC play for the Longhorns officially gets underway on the road March 14 against Mississippi State.
In 2024, Tennessee and Kentucky shared the SEC regular-season title, and Tennessee won the SEC Tournament, before defeating Texas A&M for the national title.
Texas Schedule At Shriners Children’s College Showdown
All Times Eastern
Friday, Feb. 14
Saturday, Feb. 15
Sunday, Feb. 16
7:30 p.m. – Oklahoma State vs. Texas
How To Watch Texas Baseball At The 2025 Shriners Children’s College Showdown
Replays of the games, highlights and more news will be available on both platforms.
Where Is The 2025 College Baseball Showdown?
The Shriners Children’s College Showdown and two-weekend Amegy Bank College Baseball Series presented by Kubota will take place at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, and feature some of the top teams in the nation.
The 2025 season will mark the fifth consecutive year of college baseball at Globe Life Field – home of the world champion Texas Rangers – and the second straight year the action will span three weekends.
When Is The College Baseball Showdown?
The first weekend of the festivities, the Shriners Children’s College Showdown, will begin on Friday, Feb. 14 and will run through Feb. 16.
The following two weeks of action, the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series, will take place Feb. 21-23 and Feb. 28-March 2.
To keep the momentum going between the weekends, the series also will include four midweek games at Globe Life Field. Those contests will take place Feb. 18, Feb. 19, Feb. 26 and March 5.
All three weekends of games will be streamed live on FloCollege and FloBaseball. View the teams and schedule below.
What Teams Are Playing In the 2025 College Baseball Showdown?
Here’s a list of every team headed to Globe Life Field:
Shriners Children’s College Baseball Showdown
- Arizona
- Clemson
- Louisville
- Oklahoma State
- Ole Miss
- Texas
Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 2
- Arkansas
- Kanas State
- TCU
- Michigan
Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 3
- Auburn University
- Baylor University
- Ohio State University
- Oregon State University
Midweek Games
- *Texas State vs. Oklahoma State (Feb. 18)
- *Oklahoma vs. UT Arlington (Feb. 19)
- LSU vs. Dallas Baptist (Feb. 26)
- *Wichita State vs. Abilene Christian (March 5)
*Will not be broadcast live by FloSports.
Complete 2025 College Baseball Showdown Schedule
All Times Eastern
Friday, Feb. 14
Saturday, Feb. 15
Sunday, Feb. 16
- 11:30 a.m. - Louisville vs. Arizona
- 3:30 p.m. - Ole Miss vs. Clemson
- 7:30 p.m. - Oklahoma State vs. Texas
Friday, Feb. 21
Saturday, Feb. 22
Sunday, Feb. 23
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Friday, Feb. 28
Saturday, March 1
Sunday, March 2
How To Stream The 2025 Shriners Children’s College Showdown
The Shriners Children’s College Showdown is taking place at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, from Feb. 14-16. It is streaming live on FloCollege and the FloSports app.
Replays, highlights and breaking news from the event will be on both platforms.
How To Watch The 2025 Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 2
The 2025 Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 2 is taking place at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, from Feb. 21-23. It is streaming live on FloCollege and the FloSports app.
Replays, highlights and breaking news from the event will be on both platforms.
How To Watch The 2025 Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 3
The 2025 Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 3 is taking place at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, from Feb. 28-March 2. It is streaming live on FloCollege and the FloSports app.
Replays, highlights and breaking news from the event will be on both platforms.
Highlights From 2024 Shriners Children’s College Showdown
See how it all unfolded in Arlington in 2024:
FloBaseball Archived Footage
Video footage from FloBaseball events will be archived and stored in a video library for FloBaseball subscribers to watch for the duration of their subscriptions.
Join The College Baseball Conversation On Social
- Follow us on Twitter @FloCollegeBSB
- Follow us on Instagram @flobaseball
- Like us on Facebook