College Poll Archive

Softball

March 19, 1997 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	25-0	625
2	< 2	Fresno State	19-2	595
3	< 3	UCLA	22-4	577
4	< 4	South Carolina	24-2	553
5	< 5	Washington	16-5	482
6	< 7	Iowa	13-3	458
7	< 8	Cal Poly	26-4	447
8	< 16	Michigan State	25-5	438
9	< 6	Michigan	21-7-1	432
10	< 9	Minnesota	19-5	398
11	< 10	Long Beach State	20-8	378
12	< 11	Oklahoma State	21-7	365
13	< 12	Arizona State	19-7	329
14	< 13	Oklahoma	28-9	300
15	< 15	Missouri	19-6	274
16	< 14	USF	25-8	253
17	< 17	California	17-12	196
18	< 20	Louisiana Tech	23-10	180
19	< NR	Colorado State	21-8	150
20	< 19	Pacific	16-7	138
21	< 18	Florida State	22-11	129
22	< 23	Louisiana	15-8	101
23	< NR	Hawaii	21-12-1	79
24	< 21	Cal State Northridge	10-9-2	75
25	< 24	Louisiana-Monroe	20-3	72
RV	< 22	Baylor		41
RV	< 25	San Diego State		34
RV	< NR	Sacramento State		24
RV	< NR	LSU		20
RV	< NR	Utah		20
RV	< NR	Tennessee		17
RV	< NR	DePaul		13
RV	< NR	Indiana		10
RV	< NR	Kansas		7
RV	< NR	Drake		4
RV	< NR	Texas		4
RV	< NR	UNLV		4
RV	< NR	Wisconsin		4
RV	< NR	Notre Dame		3
RV	< NR	Iowa State		2
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		2
RV	< NR	East Carolina		1
RV	< NR	Florida A&M		1
RV	< NR	Southern 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.