College Poll Archive

Softball

1998 Preseason NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	0-0	625
2	< 3	Fresno State	0-0	590
3	< 4	Washington	0-0	580
4	< 6	Michigan	0-0	522
5	< 5	Iowa	0-0	508
6	< 7	South Carolina	0-0	443
7	< 11	California	0-0	415
8	< 9	Colorado State	0-0	393
9	< 17	Kansas	0-0	372
10	< 14	USF	0-0	356
11	< 10	Oklahoma State	0-0	344
12	< 8	Massachusetts	0-0	334
13	< 12	Missouri	0-0	316
14	< 15	Long Beach State	0-0	271
15	< 19	Cal State Northridge	0-0	261
16	< 18	Oklahoma	0-0	239
17	< 2	UCLA	0-0	213
18	< 16	Utah	0-0	191
19	< 13	Louisiana	0-0	161
20	< 22	Central Michigan	0-0	152
21	< NR	Florida State	0-0	138
22	< 24	Michigan State	0-0	113
23	< 23	Arizona State	0-0	98
24	< 21	DePaul	0-0	70
25	< NR	Tennessee	0-0	55
RV	< 25	Nebraska	0-0	49
RV	< NR	Texas	0-0	46
RV	< NR	Cal State Fullerton	0-0	41
RV	< NR	Hofstra	0-0	30
RV	< NR	LSU	0-0	26
RV	< NR	Hawaii	0-0	20
RV	< NR	Cal Poly	0-0	17
RV	< NR	Purdue	0-0	17
RV	< NR	Louisiana Tech	0-0	16
RV	< NR	Oregon State	0-0	16
RV	< 20	Louisiana-Monroe	0-0	15
RV	< NR	Florida	0-0	12
RV	< NR	Notre Dame	0-0	9
RV	< NR	San Diego State	0-0	9
RV	< NR	Southeast Missouri State	0-0	9
RV	< NR	UNLV	0-0	8
RV	< NR	Connecticut	0-0	7
RV	< NR	Boston College	0-0	5
RV	< NR	Illinois-Chicago	0-0	3
RV	< NR	Stanford	0-0	3
RV	< NR	Cleveland State	0-0	2
RV	< NR	Princeton	0-0	2
RV	< NR	Florida A&M	0-0	1
RV	< NR	Missouri State	0-0	1
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois	0-0	1

From 1995 to about 2012 there are several instances where some teams received a vote, but they were not included in the poll. This is due to the NFCA policy that a team must appear on at least two ballots.