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The 2026 Division I season is quickly approaching and the first Softball America Top 25 Rankings of the year are here. The top two spots are occupied by the two teams from last season’s championship series, but Texas Tech, the national runner-up, sits at No. 1, with the defending national champions, the Texas Longhorns, in second place. Rounding out the top five are fellow Women’s College World Series participants Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Oregon. After falling just short of Oklahoma City, Florida State, Arkansas, Clemson, Nebraska, LSU, Texas A&M and Georgia are all inside our Top 15, and primed for another run. Oklahoma State looks to bounce back from its down year in 2025, while Washington is ready to turn some heads with a more talented roster. 2026 Preseason Softball America Top 25 rankings RankingTeamRecordFinal 2025 Rankings 1Texas Tech54-142 2Texas56-121 3Oklahoma52-93 4Tennessee47-174 5Oregon54-106 6Florida State49-1210 7Arkansas44-1411 8UCLA55-135 9Clemson48-149 10Florida48-178 11Nebraska43-1513 12LSU42-1621 13Alabama40-2312 14Texas A&M48-1117 15Georgia35-2316 16South Carolina44-1714 17Arizona48-1318 18Stanford42-1319 19Oklahoma State35-20NR 20Duke41-1824 21Mississippi State39-1922 22Washington35-19NR 23Virginia38-19NR 24Virginia Tech43-1320 25Ole Miss42-217 Received votes: FAU, Ohio State

@Gerry Hamilton would love your take on this Devil's advocate thesis: the portal is dangerous for a lot of programs. But for Texas, with a proven commitment to spending top 5 resources in the market, the portal's radical liquidity (and entailed better information) is the absolute best thing that could have happened to us. Background: Markets are most efficient with the most information and the most ability to change course based on that information. Bad information and low liquidity creates losers out of most... but also, big winners for those who can "divine" the future before others see it and/or can act on it. Example in College Football (proof of concept): Taking advantage of these dynamics is exactly how Cignetti has pulled off the biggest turnaround in coaching history, dominating at a place without the resources of Texas (or Ohio St, or Oregon, or...): (1) he is a preternatural evaluator of talent who sees the "information" before others do, and (2) unlike previous "golden eyes for talent", he happened to exist at the dawn of a new system where he could combine that information advantage with the liquidity of the portal (while the "big fish" like UGA and UT were slow to adapt). Outlook: The coming (present?) reality of a Majors / AAA / AA etc. system — where each year maybe up to half (who knows?) of all college football players are moving up/down levels, or to better fits within their level — provides such better information to the "Majors" programs. Instead of the Majors having to evaluate and project a guy out of HS, they can pass that risk (bad information) on the farm system. This lessens the information gap that used to exist between genius evaluators (Cignetti) and the conventional evaluators at the "big fish" programs. And the portal combined with one-year contracts gives everyone the liquidity to act on that new and better information every. single. year! How this applies to Texas, a "big fish": Ironically, the same system that enabled Cignetti's unprecedented rise is going to just as quickly allow the "big fish" to overtake Indiana (unless the system changes or Mark Cuban ponies up to fund Indiana at the level of the top 5 NIL programs). Texas' information (evaluation) disadvantage against a Cignetti will be greatly decreased, the portal provides the liquidity to act on that ever-changing information on a yearly basis, and our "big fish" bags dominate acquisition in a market for talent that is less mysterious than ever before. Conclusion: This new reality tilts the scales, unequivocally, to the schools who have the biggest NIL funds. Texas should be among the 5 happiest programs for this new era.

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I though @Gerry Hamilton said we were passing on Caleb Herring but maybe something’s changed?

Don't worry guys in a little under 48 hours I'm going to start the mods are quiet thread and both the Colorado and Wisconsin linemen will be Longhorns🤘🏿

A lot major college programs will face the issues. Just, need a core of players. The 65 man roster looking more and likely.

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I'm sure agents can talk to whomever and arrange things but there should be no communication from university and athlete

The thing is Texas is not alone. Hopefully, the defense plays, well. We have three starters and key positions. We will be fine.

How’s Jackson Christian progressing and the Coleman bros?

@Gerry Hamilton @Bobby Burton @CJ Vogel can teams schedule visits now for Thursday? Or are they supposed to wait until the dead period ends to schedule visits?

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I mean I think he has a valid point to extent. At this moment the two IOL spots are terrifying. The Oregon St transfer is not a P4 player at this point (he needs to develop if he’s your starter next year that’s not great) and Chatman has he even played a legit meaningful snap? I think the staff will grab more guys at the line but right now it’s Great-terrible-very good-terrible-very good.

Ohio st week 2 isnt a tune up. And 9 game sec schedule so only two tune ups

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Ranger Augustus McStray in his element after a long day of shepharding. His kiddos call him Ranger.

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Great article, Flood coached NFL. He should be able to adjust and get them ready. Those tune-up games beginning of the season are huge for a offensive line to gel. So, the way of 5 OL in high school recruiting is forever lost.

There is more to the story. My guess is he was asked to take a pay cut and got pissed. Bye.

I get that the goal is to get everyone to the NFL and run the program like it but this is college and even now we have 105 players, wouldn’t we want to the depth in case of injury and develop for the future And as far as I know, there are no “rules” yet on NIL