College Poll Archive

Softball

April 15, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	43-3	625
2	< 2	Michigan	34-3	600
3	< 3	Fresno State	29-6	568
4	< 4	Washington	30-7	550
5	< 5	Oklahoma	38-8	524
6	< 6	USF	47-10	490
7	< 7	Nebraska	32-8	482
8	< 9	Texas	38-11	422
9	< 11	Hawaii	36-8	402
10	< 8	Oklahoma State	32-11	385
11	< 13	LSU	43-6	351
12	< 9	Arizona State	27-13	347
12	< 12	Stanford	28-9	347
14	< 15	Florida State	45-15	246
15	< 14	Missouri	29-14	238
16	< 16	Minnesota	33-11	222
17	< 18	Long Beach State	28-12	197
18	< 21	Oregon State	22-13	178
19	< NR	DePaul	25-5	168
19	< 19	Texas Tech	40-16	168
21	< 20	California	24-17	123
22	< 22	Iowa	24-10	112
23	< 17	Oregon	32-17	104
24	< 23	Illinois-Chicago	44-15	82
25	< 25	Cal State Northridge	26-15	58
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		40
RV	< 24	Louisiana		25
RV	< NR	Alabama		17
RV	< NR	Florida		13
RV	< NR	Hofstra		13
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		8
RV	< NR	Creighton		7
RV	< NR	Southeast Missouri State		3
RV	< NR	Michigan State		2
RV	< NR	Missouri State		2
RV	< NR	Boston College		1
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		1
RV	< NR	Troy		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.