College Poll Archive

Softball

April 2, 1997 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	25-0	625
2	< 2	Fresno State	34-5	585
3	< 3	UCLA	28-6	573
4	< 4	South Carolina	36-2	563
5	< 5	Washington	24-6	522
6	< 6	Iowa	25-5	476
7	< 7	Oklahoma	35-11	456
8	< 9	Michigan	28-8-1	441
9	< 8	Cal Poly	30-6	406
10	< 12	Michigan State	33-8	388
11	< 13	Arizona State	27-7	362
12	< 14	Missouri	30-8	323
13	< 10	Long Beach State	25-12-1	316
14	< 11	Minnesota	21-9	275
15	< 15	USF	30-9	260
16	< 17	Colorado State	31-8	244
17	< 16	Oklahoma State	24-11	229
18	< 18	Florida State	29-12	188
19	< 23	Louisiana-Monroe	31-3	154
20	< 20	California	20-15	129
21	< 19	Louisiana Tech	23-12	119
22	< NR	Utah	22-9	106
23	< 24	Hawaii	25-15-1	85
24	< 22	Pacific	23-12	71
25	< NR	Kansas	21-12	60
RV	< 21	Oregon State		28
RV	< NR	LSU		25
RV	< NR	Louisiana		19
RV	< 25	Baylor		17
RV	< NR	Indiana		17
RV	< NR	Cal State Northridge		13
RV	< NR	Hofstra		7
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		6
RV	< NR	UNLV		5
RV	< NR	Stanford		4
RV	< NR	Boston College		3
RV	< NR	East Carolina		3
RV	< NR	Tennessee		3
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		1
RV	< NR	Wisconsin		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.