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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Where does Florida softball rank in national polls following its SEC series win over Alabama?
A certain vibe returned to Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium last weekend for Florida softball. It was a swagger missing for weeks from the Gators — a feeling that this team could truly contend for a national championship. Advertisement UF took two of three from Alabama Thursday-Saturday. The series began as badly as possible for the team as ace Keagan Rothrock allowed seven runs in the first inning. The No. 15/20 Crimson Tide ultimately won 7-4. Florida bounced back on Friday with a dominant 12-4 run-rule victory behind Taylor Shumaker's six RBIs and two home runs. Saturday was an old school rock fight that saw the Gators come back from a 1-0 and 3-2 deficit to win 4-3 on a walk-off hit from Korbe Otis. The series win helped the Gators in the national polls this week. They moved up one spot to No. 6 in Softball. That puts them behind Tennessee, Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma and Oregon. The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) has Florida at No. 8 – same as last week. That poll ranks Florida State and UCLA higher. Softball America places UF at 8, with FSU and Arkansas higher. Same with D1 Softball. Advertisement No. 6/8 Florida hosts USF Wednesday at 6 p.m. and travels to LSU Saturday-Monday. The series with the No. 10 Tigers will be critical for potential Super Regional hosting. Where does Florida softball rank in the polls this week? Softball: No. 6 (+1) NFCA: No. 8 (=) Softball America: No. 8 (+3) D1 Softball: No. 8 (=) Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll for Week 11 Rank College Conference Record Previous Rank 1 Tennessee SEC (12-6) 37-9 2 2 Texas A&M SEC (13-4) 39-6 1 3 Texas SEC (13-5) 41-6 3 4 Oklahoma SEC (13-5) 39-5 4 5 Oregon Big Ten (14-2) 41-5 6 6 Florida SEC (11-7) 39-10 7 7 Florida State ACC (14-1) 40-6 8 8 UCLA Big Ten (13-3) 41-7 5 9 Arkansas SEC (10-8) 34-9 10 10 LSU SEC (9-9) 36-10 9 11 South Carolina SEC (9-8) 34-11 12 12 Texas Tech Big 12 (16-2) 36-10 14 13 Arizona Big 12 (14-7) 37-9 13 14 Virginia Tech ACC (15-3) 37-7 11 15 Alabama SEC (8-10) 31-18 T17 16 Stanford ACC (11-7) 32-9 16 17 Mississippi State SEC (9-9) 33-14 15 18 Duke ACC (14-7) 34-14 T17 19 Clemson ACC (16-5) 37-12 19 20 Ole Miss SEC (9-9) 33-12 20 21 Nebraska Big Ten (12-4) 33-11 21 22 Ohio State Big Ten (11-5) 37-10-1 24 23 Oklahoma State Big 12 (8-8) 27-15 22 24 Georgia SEC (6-14) 28-17 23 25 Grand Canyon WAC (15-2) 37-6 RV Noah Ram covers Gainesville-area high school sports and University of Florida athletics for The Gainesville Sun, and the USA TODAY Network. Contact him by email at Nram@ and follow him @Noah_ram1 on X/Twitter. This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Florida softball: Where do the Gators rank after Alabama series win?
USA Today
04-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
No. 1 Oklahoma softball falls to No. 9 Florida in regular-season finale
No. 1 Oklahoma softball falls to No. 9 Florida in regular-season finale The No. 1 Oklahoma softball team will head into its first SEC Tournament as the No. 1 seed. They may not be happy about the way they're playing, though. Oklahoma fell in its regular-season finale Saturday evening against No. 9 Florida, 6-4, dropping the series after Friday's loss in Game 2. Despite the loss, the Sooners won the conference's regular-season title by 1/2 game over No. 2 Texas A&M. The Aggies had a rain out April 7 against Georgia to create the unusual standings difference. Florida led 3-0 after three innings in Gainesville after a sacrifice fly in the first and a two-run double from Korbe Otis in the third. Oklahoma pulled two of those back in the fourth and fifth when Cydney Sanders hit a solo home run and Gabbie Garcia plated a run on a sacrifice fly. But the Gators would make OU's hole too large in the sixth. Ava Brown led off the inning with a home run, Kendra Falby scored on a passed ball and Reagan Walsh crossed the plate on a fielder's choice to provide Florida enough insurance to counter the Sooners' seventh-inning attempted comback. Garcia popped a two-run home run to create the final score and the Sooners left two runners on base to end the game. Florida did its damage off Oklahoma starter Sam Landry. She allowed all six runs, only four earned, on seven hits, four for extra bases, and six walks. The top four seeds in the SEC Tournament all receive byes into the quarterfinals. Oklahoma will play the winner of eight-seed Mississippi State and nine-seed LSU on Thursday at 10 a.m. CT from Athens, Georgia. OU swept Mississippi State during the regular season and did not play LSU.
