# 2020 Southeastern Conference softball season

The 2020 SEC softball season began with practices in January 2020, followed by the start of the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season in February. Conference will start in March 2020 and will conclude in May, followed by the 2020 Southeastern Conference softball tournament at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in May. Vanderbilt University is the only full member of the Southeastern Conference to not sponsor a softball program.

## Preseason
### SEC preseason poll

The SEC preseason poll was released on January 15, 2020.
Preseason poll :
| Predicted finish | Team |
| 1 | Alabama |
| 2 | Tennessee |
| 3 | LSU |
| 4 | Kentucky |
| 5 | Florida |
| 6 | Georgia |
| 7 | Arkansas |
| 8 | Ole Miss |
| 9 | South Carolina |
| 10 | Missouri |
| 11 | Auburn |
| 12 | Mississippi State Texas A&M |

## Head coaches

Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and SEC records are from time at current school.
| Team | Head coach | Previous job | Season at school | Overall record | SEC record | SEC titles | SEC Tournament titles | NCAA Regionals | NCAA Super Regionals | Women's College World Series | National Championships |
| Alabama | Patrick Murphy | Alabama (asst.) | 22nd | 1083–303 | 417–151 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 1 |
| Arkansas | Courtney Deifel | Maryland | 5th | 128–100 | 32–64 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Auburn | Mickey Dean | James Madison | 3rd | 80–38 | 21–26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | Tim Walton | Wichita State | 15th | 727–152 | 260–75 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 2 |
| Georgia | Lu Harris-Champer | Southern Miss | 20th | 902–340 | 306–197 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 0 |
| Kentucky | Rachel Lawson | Western Kentucky | 13th | 432–277 | 140–161 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| LSU | Beth Torina | FIU | 9th | 360–155 | 110–85 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Mississippi State | Samantha Ricketts | Mississippi State (AHC) | 1st | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Missouri | Larissa Anderson | Hofstra | 2nd | 35–25 | 12–12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ole Miss | Ruben Felix | Ole Miss (asst.) | 1st | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | Beverly Smith | North Carolina (AHC) | 10th | 310–211 | 77–145 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tennessee | Karen and Ralph Weekly | Chattanooga | 19th | 893-276–2 | 299-163–1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 0 |
| Texas A&M | Jo Evans | Utah | 24th | 907–442–2 | 72–91 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 0 |

## Conference matrix

| | Alabama | Arkansas | Auburn | Florida | Georgia | Kentucky | LSU | Miss. State | Missouri | Ole Miss | S. Carolina | Tennessee | Texas A&M |
| vs. Alabama | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Arkansas | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Auburn | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Florida | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Georgia | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Kentucky | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. LSU | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Miss. State | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Missouri | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Ole Miss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0-0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. South Carolina | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| vs. Tennessee | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – | 0–0 |
| vs. Texas A&M | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0-0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | – |
| Total | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |