College Poll Archive

Softball

April 29, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	51-3	625
2	< 2	Michigan	44-4	600
3	< 4	Fresno State	41-8	568
4	< 3	Washington	38-9	546
5	< 6	USF	54-11	510
6	< 7	Nebraska	38-10	492
6	< 5	Oklahoma	44-12	492
8	< 8	Texas	44-12	442
9	< 9	Stanford	33-14	421
10	< 10	LSU	52-7	412
11	< 12	Oklahoma State	35-15	337
12	< 11	Hawaii	41-13	330
13	< 15	DePaul	33-5	309
14	< 14	Long Beach State	32-13	288
15	< 13	Arizona State	34-18	279
16	< 16	Florida State	50-18	219
17	< 17	Texas Tech	44-18	197
18	< 20	Iowa	32-14	170
19	< 23	Cal State Northridge	34-17	152
20	< 24	Illinois-Chicago	51-16	140
21	< 19	California	30-21	131
22	< 18	Missouri	36-19	120
23	< 21	Minnesota	39-16	82
24	< NR	Massachusetts	35-12	68
25	< NR	Florida	41-18	52
RV	< 25	Oregon		38
RV	< NR	Alabama		22
RV	< 22	Oregon State		22
RV	< NR	Northwestern		19
RV	< NR	Hofstra		18
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		18
RV	< NR	Boston College		6
RV	< NR	Louisiana		3
RV	< NR	Creighton		2
RV	< NR	Harvard		1
RV	< NR	Notre Dame		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.