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With less than two weeks until the season begins, ESPN and USA Softball recently unveiled their preseason Top 25 rankings. Patrick Murphy’s Crimson Tide was ranked No. 11, one spot behind No. 10 Texas Tech and one spot ahead of No. 12 Florida State.

Alabama softball heads into the 2025 season ranked as the No. 11 team in the country per the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Preseason Top 25 Poll that was released Tuesday.

The Texas A&M softball team is ranked eighth in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association preseason top 25 poll, which is the program’s highest ranking since being sixth in 2018.

After a runner-up finish in the 2024 Women's College World Series, Texas softball is No. 1 entering the 2025 season in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll.

The Razorbacks were ranked sixth among 11 SEC teams in the poll. Arkansas is behind Texas (No. 1), Florida (2), Oklahoma (3), Tennessee (5), Texas A&M (7), LSU (9) and Alabama (11), and ahead of Georgia (14), Missouri (15) and Mississippi State (25). ESPN/USA Softball is the poll of record for WholeHogSports.

The 2025 Husker Softball season is just nine days away and in the fourth and final poll before the season kicks off, Nebraska comes in ranked at 19th in the NFCA Preseason Coaches Poll. The Huskers are ranked in three other preseason polls;