2008: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com October 13, 2008 (Includes games of October 12, 2008) -- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank	School	Record	Pts	Rank
1	Wake Forest (16)	12-0-0	400	1
2	Creighton	9-1-1	374	2
3	Northwestern	10-0-2	370	3
4	St. John's	10-1-2	357	4
5	Akron	9-1-2	330	8
6	Maryland	9-3-0	305	10
7 (tie)	North Carolina	9-2-1	259	13
7 (tie)	California-Davis	11-1-1	259	17
9	Louisville	9-2-2	246	7
10	California	6-2-4	243	5
11	Notre Dame	8-3-1	225	14
12	Illinois-Chicago	8-1-4	221	6
13	South Florida	7-2-2	209	12
14	Loyola (Baltimore)	10-0-1	204	18
15	Michigan	9-2-2	198	20
16	Saint Louis	5-1-5	164	9
17	Tulsa	8-3-1	139	22
18	Southern Methodist	7-3-2	109	21
19	Ohio State	7-3-2	81	15
20	Connecticut	5-3-4	72	11
21	California-Irvine	8-1-3	69	25
22	Indiana	6-4-2	66	19
23	California, Santa Barbara	6-4-2	64	16
24	Virginia	8-3-0	58	nr
25	Drake	9-2-0	43	24

Key: Pts - Total points. LW - Last week's ranking. t - tie. nr - no ranking

Dropped out: No. 23 Charlotte.

Others receiving votes: Brown 37, Charlotte 20, Washington 14, Georgetown 11, Providence 11, Evansville 7, Butler 6, Pennsylvania 6, California Poly 2, Denver 2.

Voting panel: Louis Bennett, Marquette; Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; Ian Collins, Kentucky; Jim DeRose, Bradley; Dan Donigan, Saint Louis; Jeremy Fishbein, New Mexico; John Kerr, Duke; Mike Freitag, Indiana; Mike Getman, Alabama at Birmingham; Kevin Grimes, California; Mike Jacobs, Evansville; Paul Krumpe, Loyola Marymount; Ken Lolla, Louisville; Ray Reid, Connecticut; Bob Warming, Creighton.

Voting method: On each ballot, 25 points awarded for first place, 24 for second place, 23 for third, etc., to 1 point for 25th place.