College Poll Archive

Softball

April 23, 1997 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 2	Arizona (16)	42-4	616
2	< 1	Fresno State (8)	42-7	604
3	< 3	South Carolina (1)	51-3	578
4	< 4	UCLA	34-10	541
5	< 5	Iowa	36-5	531
6	< 6	Washington	31-10	497
7	< 9	Missouri	41-11	452
8	< 7	Oklahoma	46-14	445
9	< 8	Michigan State	43-11	416
10	< 12	Michigan	40-13-1	377
11	< 10	Cal Poly	34-13	349
12	< 11	Arizona State	30-14	318
13	< 13	Long Beach State	35-16-1	313
14	< 14	USF	43-11	307
15	< 16	Colorado State	39-10	291
16	< 14	Minnesota	31-12	202
17	< 18	Florida State	40-15-1	198
18	< 20	Utah	34-11	185
19	< 17	Oklahoma State	31-17	180
20	< 19	Louisiana-Monroe	40-7	164
21	< 21	Louisiana Tech	30-14	118
22	< 25	Louisiana	41-15	104
23	< 24	Kansas	33-16	64
24	< 22	California	27-19	61
25	< 23	Cal State Northridge	27-17-2	53
RV	< NR	New Mexico State		34
RV	< NR	Central Michigan		27
RV	< NR	LSU		25
RV	< NR	Connecticut		15
RV	< NR	Tennessee		15
RV	< NR	Pacific		10
RV	< NR	Purdue		7
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		5
RV	< NR	Hawaii		4
RV	< NR	Hofstra		4
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		4
RV	< NR	Illinois-Chicago		3
RV	< NR	Boston College		2
RV	< NR	DePaul		2
RV	< NR	San Diego State		2
RV	< NR	East Carolina		1
RV	< NR	Oregon State		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.