Virginia Tech baseball added a marquee early-season trip to its 2027 schedule, with the program announcing its acceptance of an invitation to the inaugural Nashville stop of the College Baseball Series.
The Hokies will play one game apiece against Cincinnati, Ohio State and Vanderbilt during the third weekend of next season, March 5-7, at First Horizon Park — home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds.
It's a quick turnaround back into the multi-team event circuit for John Szefc's program, which made its debut in the College Baseball Series framework this past season at the Amegy Bank event in Arlington, Texas. That experience paid dividends on paper: Virginia Tech entered the 2026 NCAA Tournament ranked 17th nationally in strength of schedule, a boost it can trace in part to those non-conference matchups and a stat which helped them earn the No. 2 seed in UCLA's regional.
The Nashville field carries similar weight. All three of Virginia Tech's 2027 opponents finished last season ranked inside the top 100 of the NCAA's RPI — Cincinnati at No. 22, Vanderbilt at No. 72 and Ohio State at No. 87. Cincinnati joined the Hokies in the 2026 NCAA Tournament field as a No. 2 seed in the Starkville Regional, while Vanderbilt, the 2025 No. 1 national seed, saw its streak of 19 straight tournament appearances snapped this past spring.
Virginia Tech and Cincinnati have met 53 times, with the Hokies last sweeping the Bearcats in a 2014 series at English Field that pushed their all-time edge to 39-14.
The Ohio State matchup will be the programs' first meeting since 1956, while Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech haven't played since 1978.
Game times, matchups and broadcast details will be announced later.
