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OMAHA, Neb.  – LSU may not head the all-time list of most College World Series titles but there’s now no doubt at all that the Tigers are the modern era’s most dominant college baseball program.

Winning its eighth national championship Sunday marked the fourth time this century, under three different head coaches, that LSU has ruled the College World Series.

USC, with 12 national titles, has the NCAA record for national championships. But the last one for the Trojans came in 1998, and that program is only a sometimes contender in today’s college baseball world, eclipsed in Los Angeles by UCLA this century.

After striking out 17 Coastal Carolina batters Saturday to open the championship finals, Tiger pitcher Kade Anderson won the CWS Most Outstanding Player award Sunday and was joined on the All-CWS team by LSU outfielder Derek Curiel, first baseman Jared Jones and shortstop Steven Milam.

Here’s the list of LSU’s College World Series championship game wins (head coach, team record in parentheses):

1991 (Skip Bertman, 55-19) – LSU 6, Wichita State 3

1993 (Skip Bertman, 53-17-1) – LSU 8, Wichita State 0

1996 (Skip Bertman, 52-15) – LSU 9, Miami 8

1997 (Skip Bertman, 57-13) – LSU 13, Alabama 6

2000 (Skip Bertman, 52-17) – LSU 6, Stanford 5

2009 (Paul Mainieri, 56-17) – LSU 11, Texas 4

2023 (Jay Johnson, 54-17) – LSU 18, Florida 4

2025 (Jay Johnson, 53-15) – LSU 5, Coastal Carolina 3