LOUISVILLE, Ky. – First-time national champion Texas is the unanimous No. 1 team in the final 2025 NFCA/GoRout Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Longhorns (56-12) edged out Texas Tech in a three-game Championship Series to complete a 10-2 postseason run and win the softball program’s first title in its 28-year history.
Texas’ postseason included a sweep of the Austin Super Regional, knocking off Eastern Illinois, Michigan and UCF before coming out on top of a hard-fought three-game Super Regional tilt against No. 11 seed Clemson, winning the final two contests 7-5 in 10 innings and 6-5. A 3-0 start at the Women’s College World Series advanced the Longhorns to their third Championship Series in four years. After splitting a pair of one-run affairs with the 12th-seeded Red Raiders, Texas jumped out to a 10-0 advantage after four innings and defeated Texas Tech 10-4 for the national championship.
The sixth-seeded Longhorns are the second lowest seeded team to win a WCWS and the first SEC softball program to win since Florida went back-to-back in 2014 and 2015. Their 56th and final victory of 2025 set a new single-season program record for wins, surpassing the previous mark of 55 set by the 2004 and 2006 squads.
Texas Tech, which made its first-ever Super Regional and WCWS appearances, shined throughout the postseason. The Red Raiders (54-14), who smashed their program record for wins, won their first eight games of the postseason, sweeping the Lubbock Regional and the Tallahassee Super Regional against fifth-ranked Florida State. At the WCWS, Texas Tech defeated Ole Miss, No. 9 seed UCLA and No. 2 seed Oklahoma en route to the Championship Series.
National semifinalists Oklahoma and Tennessee come in at No. 3 and No. 4. The Sooners (52-9) swept through Regionals and Super Regionals, winning four of the five games by run rule and went 2-2 at the World Series with triumphs over No. 7 seed Tennessee and No. 16 seed Oregon. The Lady Vols (47-17) posted a 7-3 postseason record, sweeping regionals and sneaking by Nebraska in a three-game Super Regional, winning games two and three by one run. In OKC, UT earned its two wins over No. 3 seed Florida and No. 9 seed UCLA.
The remaining four WCWS participants – No. 5 Oregon, No. 6 UCLA, No. 7 Florida and No. 8 Ole Miss, along with No. 9 Arkansas and No. 10 Florida State, who both fell in Super Regionals, round out the top 10. Of the teams that traveled to OKC, it was the Ducks’ (54-10) first trip since 2018. Following their first-ever WCWS appearance, the eighth-ranked Rebels (42-21) earned the program’s highest national ranking after capturing the Tucson Regional (two wins over No. 13-seeded Arizona) and Fayetteville Super Regional (two wins over No. 4 seed Arkansas).
Making their way into the rankings after Super Regional runs were No. 17 Liberty and No. 22 Georgia. The Flames (50-15) became the first team to knock off a No. 1 overall seed and advance to Super Regionals. Liberty, which set a program record for wins, went 3-1 at the Bryan-College Station Regional, which included two victories over No. 1 Texas A&M, the second in the winner-take-all regional final. It is the Flames first NFCA ranking since being 24th in the 2022 preseason poll.
The Bulldogs (35-23) won the Durham Regional, knocking out the host Blue Devils before falling in a three-game Super Regional at No. 3 seed Florida.
The 2025 NFCA/GoRout Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll is voted on by 31 NCAA Division I head coaches with one representing each of the NCAA’s Division I Conferences. Polls were released Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. throughout the season. Records reflect games played through June 6, 2025.
2025 NFCA/GoRout Division I Top 25 Softball Coaches Poll
6/10/25 (Final)
|
Rank |
School (First Place Votes) |
Points |
Record |
Previous Ranking |
|
1 |
Texas (31) |
775 |
56-12 |
3 |
|
2 |
Texas Tech |
744 |
54-14 |
10 |
|
3 |
Oklahoma |
711 |
52-9 |
2 |
|
4 |
Tennessee |
680 |
47-17 |
7 |
|
5 |
Oregon |
643 |
54-10 |
6 |
|
6 |
UCLA |
609 |
55-13 |
9 |
|
7 |
Florida |
579 |
48-17 |
8 |
|
8 |
Ole Miss |
561 |
42-21 |
17 |
|
9 |
Arkansas |
493 |
44-14 |
4 |
|
10 |
Florida State |
469 |
49-12 |
5 |
|
11 |
Clemson |
432 |
48-14 |
13 |
|
12 |
South Carolina |
413 |
44-17 |
14 |
|
13 |
Nebraska |
392 |
43-15 |
19 |
|
14 |
Texas A&M |
379 |
48-11 |
1 |
|
15 |
Alabama |
311 |
40-23 |
20 |
|
16 |
Arizona |
302 |
48-13 |
12 |
|
17 |
Liberty |
274 |
50-15 |
RV |
|
18 |
Virginia Tech |
229 |
43-13 |
15 |
|
19 |
LSU |
221 |
42-16 |
11 |
|
20 |
Stanford |
207 |
42-13 |
16 |
|
21 |
Mississippi State |
163 |
39-19 |
18 |
|
22 |
Georgia |
137 |
35-23 |
RV |
|
23 |
Duke |
130 |
41-18 |
21 |
|
24 |
Ohio State |
89 |
45-14-1 |
22 |
|
25 |
Oklahoma State |
48 |
35-20 |
24 |
New to Poll: No. 17 Liberty, No. 22 Georgia
Dropped Out: No. 23 Grand Canyon (47-8), No. 25 Virginia (38-19)
Receiving Votes: Southeastern Louisiana (27), Grand Canyon (19), Michigan (12), North Florida (7), UCF (3), UC Santa Barbara (3), Virginia (2), Auburn (1), Florida Atlantic (1).
The 2025 NFCA/GoRout Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll is voted on by 31 NCAA Division I head coaches with one representing each of the NCAA’s Division I Conferences. The poll will be released on Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. ET during the season. Records reflect games played through June 6.
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