A rapid and facile synthesis method for rod-like ordered mesoporous carbon material (OMC) was developed, in which the phenolic resin was used as the carbon source and the precursor solution of rod-like SBA-15 was employed as a hard-template. This new method skipped several processes related to the preparation of SBA-15. The as-synthesized OMC featured a rod morphology with rod lengths of 0.7–1 μm, uniformly sized mesopores (5.1 nm), and a high surface area (795 m2 g–1). Furthermore, the as-synthesized OMC showed excellent capacity for dye adsorption from aqueous solution.