College Poll Archive

Softball

April 22, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	47-3	625
2	< 2	Michigan	40-4	598
3	< 4	Washington	35-7	565
4	< 3	Fresno State	33-8	544
5	< 5	Oklahoma	42-10	523
6	< 6	USF	51-10	496
7	< 7	Nebraska	36-8	483
8	< 8	Texas	41-12	449
9	< 12	Stanford	29-12	445
10	< 11	LSU	47-6	424
11	< 9	Hawaii	36-10	362
12	< 10	Oklahoma State	33-14	330
13	< 12	Arizona State	32-16	315
14	< 17	Long Beach State	28-12	244
15	< 19	DePaul	31-5	224
16	< 14	Florida State	47-18	216
17	< 19	Texas Tech	42-16	188
18	< 15	Missouri	31-18	176
19	< 21	California	28-19	159
20	< 22	Iowa	28-12	152
21	< 16	Minnesota	34-14	138
22	< 18	Oregon State	25-16	113
23	< 25	Cal State Northridge	31-16	106
24	< 24	Illinois-Chicago	49-16	98
25	< 23	Oregon	33-20	66
RV	< NR	Massachusetts		48
RV	< NR	Florida		27
RV	< NR	Boston College		18
RV	< NR	Hofstra		17
RV	< NR	Alabama		16
RV	< NR	Utah		16
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		13
RV	< NR	Michigan State		10
RV	< NR	Louisiana		7
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		5
RV	< NR	Creighton		3
RV	< NR	Texas A&M		3
RV	< NR	Northwestern		2
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.