One year after the College World Series included teams from six different conferences as well as one independent, the 2026 field is dominated by the SEC.Georgia, the No. 3 overall seed, headlines the field and is joined by Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss and Oklahoma from the SEC, North Carolina from the ACC, West Virginia from the Big 12 and Troy from the Sun Belt.Here are eight things to know about the 2026 CWS, which begins Friday at 2 p.m. ET at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb.Road DawgsGeorgia coach Wes Johnson has made it no secret that he builds his roster with his home ballpark — home run-friendly Foley Field — in mind.He prefers pitchers with high strikeout and high ground ball rates, and he can live with some swing-and-miss from his hitters if they have a high fly ball rate. The formula has worked. In Johnson’s three seasons, the Bulldogs are 99-20 at home, including a stellar 34-11 in the SEC.Their performance on the road wasn’t quite as good … until this season. In Johnson’s first two years, the Dawgs went a combined 23-21 in road/neutral site games, including 13-19 vs. SEC teams (13-17 regular season, 0-2 SEC tournament). This year, Georgia is 15-5 away from home, including 14-4 against SEC opponents (11-4 regular season, 3-0 SEC tournament).And it wasn’t as though the Bulldogs feasted on the bottom half of the league. They won road series against three teams that hosted a Regional (Auburn, Texas A&M and Mississippi State) and two No. 2 seeds (Ole Miss and Arkansas).It’s not the first time an SEC team has won road series against five eventual NCAA Tournament teams — Arkansas did it most recently, in 2021 — but it is likely the most impressive single-season road performance in league history. And it bodes well for the next week-plus of neutral-site games.