College Poll Archive

Softball

April 9, 1997 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 2	Fresno State (15)	37-6	614
2	< 1	Arizona (9)	33-4	607
3	< 3	UCLA	29-7	565
4	< 4	South Carolina (1)	41-3	561
5	< 6	Iowa	29-5	518
6	< 5	Washington	25-9	485
7	< 7	Oklahoma	40-11	475
8	< 9	Cal Poly	31-8	408
9	< 8	Michigan	30-10-1	402
10	< 11	Arizona State	28-8	377
11	< 12	Missouri	34-8	367
12	< 10	Michigan State	36-9	363
13	< 13	Long Beach State	28-13-1	289
14	< 15	USF	34-9	282
15	< 14	Minnesota	25-9	255
16	< 16	Colorado State	34-9	242
17	< 19	Louisiana-Monroe	35-4	209
18	< 17	Oklahoma State	27-13	172
19	< 18	Florida State	31-14-1	155
20	< 21	Louisiana Tech	24-12	120
21	< 20	California	23-16	110
22	< 22	Utah	23-10	101
23	< 25	Kansas	26-12	95
24	< 24	Pacific	25-12	71
25	< 23	Hawaii	27-17-1	63
RV	< NR	LSU		43
RV	< NR	Cal State Northridge		32
RV	< NR	Louisiana		32
RV	< NR	Central Michigan		15
RV	< NR	Boston College		14
RV	< NR	Hofstra		13
RV	< NR	Tennessee		13
RV	< NR	UNLV		11
RV	< NR	East Carolina		10
RV	< NR	Oregon State		6
RV	< NR	Baylor		5
RV	< NR	Indiana		5
RV	< NR	San Diego State		3
RV	< NR	Florida A&M		2
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		2
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		1
RV	< NR	UC Santa Barbara		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.