It's Texas softball, not the reigning National Champion Oklahoma Sooners, that is ranked No. 1 in the preseason ESPN/USA Softball top 25 poll for this 2025 season. Oklahoma ranked No. 3 in the preseason ESPN/USA Softball top 25 rankings.
Texas softball voted as the preseason No. 1 team by ESPN/USA Softball, ahead of SEC foes Florida and OU
Texas was the runner-up last season to the National Champion Oklahoma. The No. 8 Duke Blue Devils, No. 11 Alabama Crimson Tide, No. 6 UCLA Bruins, No. 23 Stanford Cardinal, No. 2 Florida Gators, and No. 4 Oklahoma State Cowgirls are the other teams that made the Women's College World Series in 2024 that are ranked in the preseason ESPN/USA Softball poll for 2025.
As Texas enters the SEC for the 2025 season for the softball program, the Longhorns have a very promising outlook immediately. The Longhorns have a chance to avenge its loss to Oklahoma in the national championship last year.
Texas has multiple key returning players who were named to the USA Softball Player of the Year Preseason watch list, including catcher Reese Atwood, pitcher Teagan Kavan, and infielder Mia Scott.
Head coach Mike White and the Longhorns will take on No. 2 ranked Florida early in SEC play this upcoming season, starting March 15 on the road in Gainesville.
All of the top three ranked teams, and four out of the top five in this preseason poll, are from the SEC. The SEC has the most teams of any conference ranked in the top 25, with 11 out of its 16 teams included in the mix here.
Texas faces six out of the 11 teams ranked in this preseason top 25 poll in SEC play.
March 15-17: @ No. 2 Florida
March 28-30: vs. No. 25 Mississippi State
April 4-6: @ No. 15 Mizzou
April 11-13: vs. No. 5 Tennessee
April 17-19: vs. No. 9 LSU
April 25-27: @ No. 3 Oklahoma
The Longhorns its final season in the Big 12 in 2024 with a 55-10 (23-4 Big 12) record after making its second Women's College World Series appearance in the past three years (2022 and 2024).