College Poll Archive

Softball

March 18, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	22-2	625
2	< 2	Michigan	18-3	597
3	< 3	Washington	13-3	570
4	< 4	Oklahoma State	22-3	543
5	< 5	Fresno State	12-2	531
6	< 6	Oklahoma	26-5	500
7	< 11	Hawaii	28-3	451
8	< 8	Arizona State	18-5	426
9	< 9	Missouri	16-5	405
10	< 7	USF	28-9	399
11	< 18	Texas	23-6	322
12	< 13	Nebraska	14-5	304
13	< 10	Long Beach State	17-8-1	277
14	< 14	Stanford	15-4	275
15	< 16	LSU	23-4	258
16	< 14	Iowa	8-4	245
17	< 17	Florida State	28-12	220
18	< 12	Oregon State	15-5	195
19	< 23	Oregon	19-6	166
20	< 20	Minnesota	20-7	161
21	< 22	California	15-9	118
22	< 19	Cal State Northridge	13-9-1	109
23	< NR	Texas Tech	27-7	81
24	< 23	Louisiana	13-5	71
25	< NR	Florida	20-10	47
RV	< NR	Illinois-Chicago		29
RV	< NR	Hofstra		25
RV	< 21	South Carolina		25
RV	< NR	Michigan State		24
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		14
RV	< 25	DePaul		12
RV	< NR	UC Santa Barbara		12
RV	< NR	Alabama		11
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		10
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		8
RV	< NR	Utah		6
RV	< NR	Creighton		4
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		2

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.