Defending champion Texas atop the preseason college softball rankings

The Texas softball team is the defending national champion and checks in at No. 1 in the D1Softball’s preseason top 25 poll. The season opens Feb. 5.

The eight teams that played in the Women’s College World Series last spring all appear in the rankings, including No. 2 Texas Tech, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Tennessee, No. 5 Florida, No. 6 Oregon, No. 10 UCLA, and No. 24 Ole Miss.

The SEC has 12 ranked teams, the ACC six, the Big Ten four and Big 12 three.