College Poll Archive

Softball

March 25, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	30-2	625
2	< 2	Michigan	21-3	599
3	< 3	Washington	17-4	565
4	< 5	Fresno State	15-4	528
5	< 6	Oklahoma	30-7	518
6	< 11	Texas	29-7	466
7	< 8	Arizona State	24-6	433
8	< 9	Missouri	20-5	425
9	< 10	USF	34-9	412
10	< 4	Oklahoma State	23-7	407
11	< 7	Hawaii	30-6	370
12	< 12	Nebraska	21-7	355
13	< 13	Long Beach State	22-8-2	301
14	< 14	Stanford	17-4	292
15	< 16	Iowa	14-5	289
16	< 15	LSU	30-4	276
17	< 17	Florida State	32-12	208
18	< 18	Oregon State	17-8	172
19	< 21	California	20-11	148
20	< 20	Minnesota	20-7	141
21	< 22	Cal State Northridge	17-11-1	117
22	< 19	Oregon	23-10	110
23	< 23	Texas Tech	32-10	74
24	< NR	DePaul	10-4	46
25	< 24	Louisiana	17-8	40
RV	< NR	Illinois-Chicago		37
RV	< NR	South Carolina		35
RV	< 25	Florida		31
RV	< NR	Alabama		28
RV	< NR	Michigan State		24
RV	< NR	Hofstra		18
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		13
RV	< NR	Kansas		10
RV	< NR	UC Santa Barbara		10
RV	< NR	Texas A&M		9
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		5
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		5
RV	< NR	Creighton		4
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		4

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.