College Poll Archive

Softball

March 11, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	21-2	625
2	< 2	Michigan	18-3	596
3	< 3	Washington	13-3	572
4	< 4	Oklahoma State	18-3	524
5	< 5	Fresno State	8-2	521
6	< 6	Oklahoma	22-5	502
7	< 7	USF	23-6	457
8	< 8	Arizona State	14-3	435
9	< 9	Missouri	16-5	391
10	< 10	Long Beach State	16-5-1	388
11	< 11	Hawaii	19-3	366
12	< 20	Oregon State	15-3	280
13	< 15	Nebraska	10-4	267
14	< 16	Iowa	8-4	255
14	< 17	Stanford	10-3	255
16	< 19	LSU	15-2	234
17	< 12	Florida State	18-9	230
18	< NR	Texas	20-6	225
19	< 18	Cal State Northridge	11-5-1	212
20	< 21	Minnesota	20-7	197
21	< 14	South Carolina	8-6	182
22	< 13	California	8-8	86
23	< 25	Louisiana	8-3	49
23	< NR	Oregon	15-6	49
25	< 24	DePaul	5-3	43
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		36
RV	< NR	Illinois-Chicago		33
RV	< NR	Utah		31
RV	< 22	Kansas		15
RV	< NR	Northwestern		12
RV	< NR	UC Santa Barbara		10
RV	< NR	Florida		5
RV	< NR	Northwestern State		5
RV	< NR	Tennessee		5
RV	< NR	Boston College		4
RV	< NR	Mississippi State		4
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		4
RV	< NR	Troy		3
RV	< 23	Colorado State		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.