With lower than two weeks until Alabama softball opening day, the public pates have come out. Along with them came the SEC Trainers Poll of how the conference will play out. And there seems to be a difference of opinion.

When it comes to the AFCA Trainers pates complied for football in the fall, it’s presumably safe to say that utmost of them are filled out by someone other than the head trainer. Again, the SEC Softball Trainers Poll opinions more probably come from each head trainer.

In this bean, the conference trainers aren’t as high on the Crimson Tide as the public intelligencers are( trainers weren’t allowed to bounce for their own platoon). Alabama has preseason public rankings of 6, 7, and 8. still the trainers suppose the Tide finishes fourth in the conference.

Rank	d1softball	ESPN/USA Softball	Softball America	SEC Coaches
1	Oklahoma	Oklahoma (25)	Oklahoma	Florida
2	UCLA	UCLA	Oklahoma State	Tennessee
3	Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Florida State	Arkansas
4	Florida State	Florida State	UCLA	Alabama
5	Florida	Florida	Florida	LSU
6	Alabama	Arkansas	Northwestern	Georgia
7	Northwestern	Alabama	Arkansas	Kentucky
8	Arkansas	Northwestern	Alabama	Missouri
9	Clemson	Texas	Texas	Auburn
10	Georgia	Clemson	Clemson	Ole Miss
11	Stanford	Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech	Mississippi State
12	Tennessee	Tennessee	Georgia	Texas A&M
13	Virginia Tech	Georgia	Tennessee	South Carolina
14	Texas	Stanford	Arizona
15	UCF	Arizona	Duke
16	Kentucky	Washington	UCF
17	LSU	Kentucky	Washington
18	Arizona	UCF	Auburn
19	Auburn	Duke	Kentucky
20	Louisiana	LSU	Stanford
21	Washington	Auburn	Michigan
22	Duke	Oregon	Louisiana
23	Oregon	Missouri	Mississippi State
24	North Texas	Louisiana	Oregon State
25	Ole Miss	Oregon State	Arizona State

Compliances

• Last time’s Bama team began the season 2, 2, 3, and covers in the conference.

• Of their 57 regular season games, Team27 will face nine brigades who are ranked in at least two pates in 18 games this season Arkansas( 3 games), Auburn( 3), Duke( 1), Florida State( 1), LSU( 3), Tennessee( 3), Texas( 2), UCF( 1), UCLA( 1).
• Mississippi State, Missouri, and Ole Miss( 3 games each) are ranked in one bean.
• In the three pates, Tennessee is ranked 12, 12, and 13. Yet, the SEC trainers see them as the alternate stylish platoon in the conference.
• At 3, 3, and 2, Oklahoma State may have their loftiest preseason rankings ever. Hmm. I wonder if it’s because of the transfers they brought in.