College Poll Archive

Softball

1996 Final NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 2	Arizona (20)	58-9	500
2	< 1	Washington	59-9	480
3	< 4	UCLA	47-11	433
4	< 14	Iowa	49-19	414
5	< 5	Louisiana	46-10	396
6	< 11	California	41-23	388
7	< 7	Michigan	51-14	362
8	< 3	Fresno State	51-11	339
9	< 15	Cal State Fullerton	40-27	303
10	< 8	South Carolina	38-13	294
11	< 6	Cal State Northridge	43-16	267
12	< 9	Oklahoma	50-20	252
13	< 16	Florida State	47-21	238
14	< 24	Princeton	47-8-1	202
15	< 17	Oklahoma State	37-20	193
16	< 12	USF	41-12	183
17	< 18	Nebraska	41-23	172
18	< 10	UNLV	36-23	151
19	< 13	Minnesota	44-18	139
20	< 19	Long Beach State	36-22	131
21	< 21	Texas A&M	39-21	103
22	< NR	Nicholls State	46-19-1	93
23	< 23	Indiana	37-24	74
24	< 20	Notre Dame	48-16	50
25	< NR	Boston	35-10	24
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		15
RV	< NR	Central Michigan		10
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		9
RV	< NR	Jacksonville State		7
RV	< NR	Missouri State		7
RV	< NR	Arizona State		5
RV	< NR	Troy		5
RV	< NR	Sacramento State		2
RV	< NR	Connecticut		1
RV	< 22	Illinois-Chicago		1
RV	< NR	Utah State		1
NR	< 25	Hawaii		0

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.