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College Softball Bracketology: Selection Sunday

Screenshot 2024-07-31 at 7.46.34 PMby:Brady Vernon•05/11/25•

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Selection Sunday is here. Softball America releases its last College Softball Bracketology of the 2025 season. Watch the softball selection show at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

* = Denotes Automatic Bid

NORMANBLACKSBURG
1 Oklahoma* (1)1 Virginia Tech (16)
4 Weber State*4 Robert Morris*
2 Virginia2 Ohio State
3 Indiana3 Kentucky
COLLEGE STATIONTUSCALOOSA
1 Texas A&M (2)1 Alabama (15)
4 UC Santa Barbara*4 Jackson State*
2 Cal2 Oregon
3 Omaha*3 Mercer*
GAINESVILLEDURHAM
1 Florida (3)1 Duke (14)
4 Binghamton*4 Howard*
2 UCF2 Georgia
3 FAU3 Coastal Carolina*
FAYETTEVILLETUCSON
1 Arkansas (4)1 Arizona (13)
4 Saint Louis*4 Saint Francis*
2 Oklahoma State2 GCU*
3 Purdue3 Michigan*
TALLAHASSEELUBBOCK
1 Florida State (5)1 Texas Tech* (12)
4 Brown*4 Miami*
2 Mississippi State2 Ole Miss
3 USF*3 Washington
KNOXVILLECLEMSON
1 Tennessee (6)1 Clemson* (11)
4 Eastern Illinois*4 Elon*
2 Georgia Tech2 Auburn
3 Belmont*3 UNF*
AUSTINCOLUMBIA
1 Texas (7)1 South Carolina (10)
4 Boston U.*4 USC Upstate*
2 Nebraska2 Liberty*
3 UConn*3 North Carolina
LOS ANGELESBATON ROUGE
1 UCLA (8)1 LSU (9)
4 Santa Clara*4 Marist*
2 San Diego State*2 Stanford
3 Arizona State3 SELA*

College Softball Bracketology Breakdown

Hosts by conference:

SEC: 9
ACC: 4
Big 12: 2
Big Ten: 1

Bids by conference:

SEC: 14
ACC: 9
Big Ten: 8
Big 12: 5
American: 2
Every Other Conference: 1

Last Four In:

North Carolina (40-15)
Washington (34-17)
Indiana (33-18)
Purdue (30-23)

First Four Out:

BYU (32-17)
Nevada (41-14)
Northwestern (29-18-1)
North Texas (36-21)

College Softball Bracketology Thoughts

  • The metrics say Texas A&M should be the No. 1 seed and certainly can be once the bracket is unveiled. However, Oklahoma has the most Top-10 RPI wins, second in quad one wins, and I simply think that the four-time defending champions are going to catch a break.
  • UCLA being in the top eight seeds is a change from my recent bracketology but my gut feeling is the committee avoids seven SEC Super Regional hosts and the Bruins are the best choice. They might be rewarded for challenging themselves with a tough non-conference schedule that includes wins over Arkansas and Tennessee.
  • Virginia Tech once again gets the last spot over Oregon. The SOS and NC-SOS metrics just crush the Ducks, considering they played 31 games against quad-four opponents. The losses to Oregon State and Michigan State are worse than the Hokies’ series loss to Pitt. While both teams have five quad-one wins, all of Oregon’s being Top-10 RPI wins, Virginia Tech has six wins against the RPI 26-28 teams (Liberty, Virginia, Cal) and that can easily be seen on the team sheet by the committee.
  • Full transparency, North Carolina and Washington are listed in the Last Four In but should be safely in in Sunday. Indiana feels pretty good given the RPI, quad-one wins, Top-50 and 100 wins and lack of a quad-four loss.
  • I really wish a team stole a bid from a Mid-Major because I don’t love the options for the final team in this projection. Now the final spot in my opinion is up to Nevada, Purdue, BYU and Northwestern. I went Purdue because in the last three years, the worst RPI to get in as an at-large bid is 45, which was where the Boilermakers were at in the latest RPI update on Saturday. The addition of a quad-one win at the Big Ten Tournament, in addition to beating Northwestern helped a not-so-great resume. I wouldn’t be shocked if any of those four teams appeared in the bracket, BYU was the one I had the toughest time not putting in because they have more Top-100 wins but the 190 NC-SOS might be the difference.

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