OU softball earns top spot in D1Softball 2027 signing class rankings

Patty Gasso’s Oklahoma Sooners softball squad has made impressive moves this offseason. On Wednesday's National Signing Day, the Sooners signed three commits to their 2027 class. The players signing on Wednesday are high school seniors who will graduate after the 2026-27 school year and join their r

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Patty Gasso’s Oklahoma Sooners softball squad has made impressive moves this offseason.

On Wednesday's National Signing Day, the Sooners signed three commits to their 2027 class. The players signing on Wednesday are high school seniors who will graduate after the 2026-27 school year and join their respective college programs in the fall of 2027. Oklahoma signed only three players, but they are all rated as top-25 prospects by On3 and many other recruiting sites. This makes the class one of the best in the nation. In fact, according to D1Softball’s 2027 signing class rankings, which ranked the top 50 signing classes among Division 1 softball programs, Oklahoma came in at the top spot, ahead of LSU, Oregon, Auburn, and Stanford.

“Criteria used to

determine these rankings primarily relied upon our staff’s in-person evaluation of players,” D1 softball wrote, “but also included the projected impact of a team’s class once they get to college and the depth of a team’s full class.”

Oklahoma’s 2027 class includes 5-star outfielder Finlee Williams, 5-star catcher Riley Hilliard, and 4-star infielder Emma Reynolds. The class would have been even more stacked had 5-star in-state talent Goose Hutchens not reclassified to the 2026 class to join the Sooners for this upcoming season. She was rated as the No. 1 prospect in the country by multiple recruiting sites.

SEC schools had the most listed in the top 10 of D1 Softball’s 2027 signing class rankings with six. The Big Ten had the second-most with just two. The Big 12 and the ACC each had one.

D1Softball 2027 Signing Class Top 10:

1. Oklahoma

2. LSU

3. Oregon

4. Auburn

5. Stanford

6. Florida

7. UCLA

8. Arizona State

9. Tennessee

10. Texas A&M

Here are D1Softball’s Top 10 signing classes for the Class of 2027.

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— D1Softball (@D1Softball) November 11, 2026

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