College Poll Archive

Softball

April 8, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	39-3	625
2	< 2	Michigan	29-3	600
3	< 3	Fresno State	27-4	574
4	< 4	Washington	26-7	539
5	< 4	Oklahoma	34-8	526
6	< 6	USF	47-10	515
7	< 8	Nebraska	28-8	463
8	< 10	Oklahoma State	28-9	420
9	< 7	Arizona State	27-11	413
9	< 9	Texas	34-11	413
11	< 12	Hawaii	32-8	341
12	< 13	Stanford	25-8	333
13	< 14	LSU	37-6	308
14	< 11	Missouri	27-10	300
15	< 16	Florida State	42-13	252
16	< 18	Minnesota	31-8	248
17	< 21	Oregon	31-13	199
18	< 15	Long Beach State	24-11-1	173
19	< 19	Texas Tech	38-14	147
20	< 17	California	23-16	122
21	< 22	Oregon State	20-13	105
22	< 20	Iowa	19-10	101
23	< 24	Illinois-Chicago	40-13	92
24	< 23	Louisiana	25-8	83
25	< NR	Cal State Northridge	23-14	66
RV	< NR	DePaul		54
RV	< NR	Alabama		29
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		26
RV	< 25	Michigan State		24
RV	< NR	Florida		13
RV	< NR	Hofstra		8
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		7
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		6
RV	< NR	Northwestern		5
RV	< NR	Boston College		4
RV	< NR	South Carolina		4
RV	< NR	Texas A&M		4
RV	< NR	Troy		3
RV	< NR	Utah		3
RV	< NR	Creighton		2
RV	< NR	Southeast Missouri State		2
RV	< NR	UC Santa Barbara		2
RV	< NR	Long Island		1
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		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.