College Poll Archive

Softball

April 24, 1996 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 2	Washington (19)	40-7	499
2	< 1	Arizona (1)	39-7	478
3	< 3	Fresno State	39-7	454
4	< 3	UCLA	30-8	444
5	< 6	Louisiana	39-7	404
6	< 5	Cal State Northridge	34-11	402
7	< 7	South Carolina	35-9	359
8	< 8	Michigan	38-11	344
9	< 9	Cal State Fullerton	37-20	324
10	< 11	UNLV	33-18	322
11	< 10	Oklahoma	38-17	311
12	< 12	California	31-17	273
13	< 15	Iowa	36-12	257
14	< 14	Nebraska	31-15	195
15	< 13	Minnesota	34-9	190
16	< 18	Texas A&M	33-12	187
17	< 17	Florida State	44-17	185
18	< 16	USF	39-9	179
19	< 21	Notre Dame	40-11	126
20	< 19	Indiana	30-17	123
21	< 20	Illinois-Chicago	32-10	96
22	< 23	Oklahoma State	28-15	72
23	< 22	Long Beach State	27-16	50
23	< 25	Sacramento State	29-19	50
25	< NR	Massachusetts	30-10-1	29
RV	< NR	Princeton		26
RV	< 24	Arizona State		25
RV	< NR	Michigan State		16
RV	< NR	Utah State		13
RV	< NR	Hawaii		12
RV	< NR	Utah		12
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		7
RV	< NR	Southeast Missouri State		7
RV	< NR	Tennessee		6
RV	< NR	Central Michigan		5
RV	< NR	DePaul		5
RV	< NR	Drake		4
RV	< NR	Louisiana Tech		3
RV	< NR	Cal Poly		2
RV	< NR	New Mexico State		2
RV	< NR	East Carolina		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.