College Poll Archive

Softball

May 6, 1998 NFCA Softball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Record	Points
1	< 1	Arizona (25)	57-3	625
2	< 2	Michigan	47-4	600
3	< 3	Fresno State	45-10	560
4	< 4	Washington	44-11	538
5	< 6	Nebraska	44-10	525
6	< 5	USF	54-11	520
7	< 6	Oklahoma	47-13	473
8	< 8	Texas	46-14	439
9	< 9	Stanford	35-16	407
10	< 12	Hawaii	45-13	369
11	< 13	DePaul	41-6	362
12	< 10	LSU	53-10	347
13	< 11	Oklahoma State	37-17	329
14	< 16	Florida State	50-18	256
15	< 14	Long Beach State	36-16	249
16	< 15	Arizona State	36-22	208
17	< 17	Texas Tech	45-20	202
18	< 19	Cal State Northridge	36-17	196
19	< 18	Iowa	35-16	166
20	< 20	Illinois-Chicago	59-19	147
21	< 24	Massachusetts	40-12	126
22	< 23	Minnesota	45-17	107
23	< 25	Florida	45-18	96
24	< 21	California	30-25	74
25	< 22	Missouri	36-20	47
RV	< NR	Alabama		33
RV	< NR	Oregon		26
RV	< NR	Nicholls State		22
RV	< NR	Hofstra		18
RV	< NR	Northwestern		17
RV	< NR	Boston College		10
RV	< NR	Creighton		4
RV	< NR	Utah		4
RV	< NR	Northern Illinois		3
RV	< NR	Oregon State		3
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois		3
RV	< NR	Louisiana		2
RV	< NR	Florida Atlantic		1
RV	< NR	Harvard		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.