Tennessee will open its 2025 baseball season on Feb. 14 versus Hofstra at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Vols will host Hofstra for a three-game nonconference series.
Tennessee will also compete in the 25th annual Astros Foundation College Classic at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
Tennessee, Texas A&M, Arizona, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State and Rice will make up the field. The Astros Foundation College Classic will be contested Feb. 28-March 2.
The Vols will play Oklahoma State on Feb. 28, while facing Rice on March 1 and Arizona on March 2.
Nate Snead enters his second season at Tennessee in 2025.
The 6-foot-2, 212-pound right-handed junior pitcher appeared in 29 games, including one start, for the Vols in 2024. His only start was against Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament.
Snead (10-2) recorded six saves, 61 strikeouts and a 3.11 ERA in 75.1 innings pitched against 322 batters in 2024. He allowed 71 hits, 28 runs (26 earned), 26 walks, nine doubles, one triple, nine home runs, two wild pitches, one balk, three sacrifice flies and hit eight batters.
Snead also recorded four putouts, six assists, zero errors and a 1.000 fielding percentage defensively.
He transferred to Tennessee from Wichita State ahead of the 2024 season.
Tennessee enters the 2025 campaign after winning the College World Series, SEC Tournament and the SEC regular-season championship in 2024.
Snead appeared in five of Tennessee’s six games in the 2024 College World Series.
READ: 2025 SEC baseball week-by-week schedule
