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College: D1Softball Preseason Top 25… & When Each Team Begins the Season (Hint: This Week!!!) Feb. 2, 2025

By Justin McLeod/D1 Softball

February 2, 2025

Florida is atop the preseason rankings... and starts its season this Thursday (Feb. 6, 2025) hosting North Florida. Photo courtesy of D1 Softball

College: D1Softball Preseason Top 25… & When Each Team Begins the Season (Hint: This Week!!!) Feb. 2, 2025

It’s still very cold in many parts of the country but there’s good news to be had: the D1 college season starts this week!

That’s right, games kickoff as early as this Thursday (!) and thanks to our friends at D1 Softball, we have not only their D1 Preseason Top 25, we also have the schedules of all teams in it.

Nijaree Canaday has Texas Tech ranked Top 25 preaseaon. Photo: Texas Tech Softball.

The Florida Gators earn the top spot in D1Softball’s Preseason Top 25 poll ahead of the 2025 season.

Texas and Oklahoma – last season’s national runner-up and national champion, respectively – check in at No. 2 and No. 3 in the preseason poll.

All eight teams that played in the Women’s College World Series a year ago appear in the preseason poll; in addition to the top three teams, that group includes No. 4 UCLA, No. 5 Oklahoma State, No. 7 Duke, No. 17 Alabama, and No. 22 Stanford.

Pitchers NiJaree Canady and Jordy Bahl – ranked as the top two players in the country in the Preseason D100 Player Rankings – pilot their respective teams into the preseason Top 25. Canady’s Texas Tech squad checks in at No. 13, while Bahl’s Nebraska Cornhuskers are the No. 14 team entering the season.

The SEC leads all conferences with nine ranked teams, while the Big Ten checks in with six. The Big 12 and ACC boast four ranked teams each, while Conference USA and the Patriot League each placed a single team in the rankings.

Here are the 2025 preseason rankings; check in weekly as we’ll post the in-season rankings too courtesy of D1 Softball.

Also, click on each team’s name to go to its 2025 season schedule…

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RankTeamFinal 2024 RecordFinal 2024 RPI Rank
1Florida54-153
2Texas55-101
3Oklahoma59-72
4UCLA43-126
5Oklahoma State49-129
6Tennessee44-1210
7Duke52-94
8Florida State46-1614
9 Texas A&M44-1513
10Arkansas37-1818
11LSU44-175
12Arizona37-18-119
13Texas Tech29-2139
14Nebraska30-2348
15Georgia43-1911
16Virginia Tech40-14-120
17Alabama39-2012
18Oregon30-2130
19Northwestern35-1328
20Michigan43-1834
21Baylor36-2316
22Stanford50-177
23Boston53-6-136
24Liberty38-2531
25Penn State35-2038

 

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