Bucking the recent trend of non-national seeds winning national championships (Fresno State, Oregon State), two storied college programs will face off on Monday night in a best-of-three championship series to determine college baseball’s champion.

LSU took down SEC rival Arkansas in the afternoon, making up for last night’s rainout, while Texas won in dramatic fashion in the bottom of the ninth setting up the finale, per NCAA.com.

LSU 14, Arkansas 5

Skip Bertman is no longer in the dugout coaching four teams to championships like he did throughout the 90s, but the LSU baseball legacy still lingers in Omaha.

The Tigers have now won all eight games they’ve played this postseason and most have not been close. The Friday afternoon matchup against the Razorbacks was no different as LSU held an 11-0 lead after seven innings.

There is a familiar bayou cheer ringing across Twitter:

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   BreazyB LSU is killin it in Omaha. Won every game in Omaha so far! Sweeeeet! 20 Jun 2009 from TwitterFon
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   wwltvsports ark. coach Dave van Horn, talking about LSU – “They’ve got some really good baseball players and a couple of good football players.” 20 Jun 2009 from web
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   joannevans1 LSU is on FIRE!! Geaux Tigers!! 20 Jun 2009 from mobile web
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   mgbenton Everyone in Baton Rouge is baseball crazy right now. LSU is playing for the national championship on Mon, Tues, and maybe Wed of next week. 20 Jun 2009 from web
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   msbranh Congratulations to my LSU friends. My Hogs did not even show up today. All I can say now is GO SEC….. 20 Jun 2009 from TwitterBerry
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   rdelrod Hogs slaugthered at the hands of those LSU Tigers. The Hogs represented well and I am so proud of them. Gotta win that first game next year. 20 Jun 2009 from web

Texas 4, Arizona State 3

You couldn’t ask for a better game.

No. 1 Texas couldn’t ask for a better result.

After Arizona State took a 3-2 lead in the top of the ninth with just a half inning to go, the Longhorns ended the game in style by hitting back-to-back homeruns to walk-off with the win and advance to face LSU.

Texas and Arizona State duel at Rosenblatt Stadium

(TwitPic by @kevinengelkamp)

Arizona State’s Zach Wilson hit a triple in the top of the ninth inning, plating Jason Kipnis from second to give the energetic Sun Devils a lead with the hopes of a win and a deciding rematch Saturday.

But with two outs on the scoreboard, Longhorns’ catcher Cameron Rowe tied the score with a solo homerun to center then watched from the dugout as teammate Connor Rowe launched a change-up to left field for the walk-0ff homer.

Rup ran around the bases with his helmet held in the air before being mobbed by teammates at home plate.

The exciting finish was a trendy Twitter topic:

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   NDEddieMac Walkoff bomb. How Texas won with as bad as they played I have no clue. LSU is gonna kill murder em if they keep that up 20 Jun 2009 from Twitterrific
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   jddrago Hookem horns! Is there anything better than a walkoff homer for your team? 20 Jun 2009 from TwitterFon
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   coreytiii Texas Fight! Walkoff Home Runs in the 9th to go to championship series. That’s what I’m talkin’ bout! 20 Jun 2009 from mobile web
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   plinske well scratch that… extras in Omaha woulda been awesome but ill take the home-run…. Texas vs. LSU in the finals… HOOK ‘EM Horns!!! 20 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
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   bobbyatx That was an AMAZING Texas college world series win to head into the finals. I still REALLY wanna know why Cameron Rupp’s nickname is Donkey. 20 Jun 2009 from web

Arizona State’s young squad heads home dejected, their fan’s hearts ripped out:

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   iKollin Well that asu pitcher should be cut for next season. 20 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
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   DeanOuellette Something for asu to remember. At 8pm tonight there were only 3 teams left playing in the country. You were one. 20 Jun 2009 from UberTwitter
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   faination ASU gets beat again. This is not our year… Again. 20 Jun 2009 from TwitterBerry
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   ccmccandless Painful end to a great season for ASU baseball. 20 Jun 2009 from web
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   cgonzo Depressing way to end your season… 2 HR in bottom of the ninth. Good season ASU. Guess now I’ll go back to watching the DBacks lose. 20 Jun 2009 from Tweetie

Did you see the Texas-Arizona State finish? Who will win the best-of-3 between LSU and Texas? Comment below or tweet @BTsports!

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