College Poll Archive

Softball

May 1, 1996 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Washington (20)	44-7	500
2	< 2	Arizona	43-9	468
3	< 3	Fresno State	43-7	461
4	< 4	UCLA	36-8	447
5	< 5	Louisiana	42-8	400
6	< 6	Cal State Northridge	38-12	376
7	< 7	South Carolina	35-9	371
8	< 10	UNLV	35-18	335
9	< 8	Michigan	41-11	325
10	< 11	Oklahoma	42-18	303
11	< 12	California	34-18	294
12	< 9	Cal State Fullerton	37-24	244
13	< 13	Iowa	40-13	233
14	< 15	Minnesota	40-10	212
15	< 18	USF	39-9	205
16	< 22	Oklahoma State	33-15	188
17	< 17	Florida State	44-17	180
18	< 14	Nebraska	35-18	157
19	< 19	Notre Dame	45-12	141
20	< 16	Texas A&M	35-15	137
21	< 21	Illinois-Chicago	37-11	95
22	< 20	Indiana	34-18	91
23	< 23	Long Beach State	31-16	80
24	< NR	Princeton	38-6-1	42
25	< 23	Sacramento State	30-22	35
RV	< 25	Massachusetts		32
RV	< NR	New Mexico State		22
RV	< NR	Arizona State		20
RV	< NR	Boston		19
RV	< NR	Hawaii		15
RV	< NR	Utah State		14
RV	< NR	Michigan State		12
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		12
RV	< NR	Drake		10
RV	< NR	Southeast Missouri State		7
RV	< NR	DePaul		5
RV	< NR	Louisiana Tech		4
RV	< NR	Central Michigan		3
RV	< NR	Kansas		2
RV	< NR	Tennessee		2
RV	< NR	East Carolina		1
RV	< NR	Hofstra		1
RV	< NR	Missouri		1
RV	< NR	Northern 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.