College Poll Archive

Softball

April 17, 1996 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (20)	38-4	500
2	< 2	Washington	38-7	477
3	< 4	Fresno State	36-6	449
3	< 3	UCLA	28-8	449
5	< 5	Cal State Northridge	30-9	411
6	< 6	Louisiana	35-7	387
7	< 8	South Carolina	32-8	361
8	< 10	Michigan	34-10	328
9	< 7	Cal State Fullerton	34-17	312
10	< 11	Oklahoma	34-16	302
11	< 9	UNLV	30-17	267
12	< 12	California	29-17	258
13	< 13	Minnesota	31-7	241
14	< 18	Nebraska	29-13	218
15	< 15	Iowa	30-12	207
16	< 17	USF	38-9	205
17	< 14	Florida State	41-17	200
18	< 16	Texas A&M	28-12	173
19	< 22	Indiana	27-15	131
20	< 19	Illinois-Chicago	29-9	119
21	< 21	Notre Dame	34-11	96
22	< 25	Long Beach State	27-16	72
23	< NR	Oklahoma State	25-13	65
24	< 20	Arizona State	24-19	61
25	< 23	Sacramento State	26-19	43
RV	< 24	Hawaii		32
RV	< NR	Princeton		25
RV	< NR	Utah		16
RV	< NR	Louisiana Tech		15
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		13
RV	< NR	Utah State		12
RV	< NR	Michigan State		9
RV	< NR	Southeast Missouri State		9
RV	< NR	Pacific		6
RV	< NR	Kansas		5
RV	< NR	Cal Poly		2
RV	< NR	Drake		2
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		2
RV	< NR	DePaul		1
RV	< NR	East Carolina		1
RV	< NR	New Mexico State		1
RV	< NR	Western Illinois		1

From 1995 to about 2012 there are several instances where some teams received a vote, but they were not included in the poll. This is due to the NFCA policy that a team must appear on at least two ballots.