2009: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com September 21, 2009 (Records include games of Sunday, September 20) -- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Akron (16)	6-0-0	400	1
2	North Carolina	4-0-1	384	3
3	Maryland	3-1-1	347	4
4	South Florida	5-0-1	341	6
5	California	5-1-0	330	8
6	Wake Forest	3-1-1	322	2
7	Virginia	4-1-0	274	16
8	UCLA	3-1-0	265	12
9	California, Santa Barbara	5-1-1	260	10
10	Louisville	5-0-1	238	14
11	Harvard	5-0-0	219	19
12	Indiana	3-2-1	207	7
13	Dartmouth	4-1-1	190	9
14	Duke	4-1-0	189	11
15	Creighton	1-1-1	134	5
16	Michigan	6-1-0	123	21
17	St. John's	2-1-3	118	13
18 (tie)	Michigan State	4-1-1	106	15
18 (tie)	Monmouth	7-0-0	106	25
20	North Carolina State	4-1-1	103	23
21	Notre Dame	3-3-1	77	20
22	Northwestern	3-1-2	62	22
23	California-Irvine	5-2-0	53	17
24	California State-Northridge	5-1-0	49	nr
25	Loyola Marymount	4-2-0	48	nr

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

Dropped out: No. 18 Boston University, No. 24 Kentucky.

Others receiving votes: Boston University 43, Kentucky 31, South Carolina 27, Maryland-Baltimore County 21, New Mexico 18, Stanford 17, Brown 13, College of Charleston 13, Old Dominion 12, Ohio State 10, San Diego 10, Alabama at Birmingham 7, Evansville 7, Charlotte 5, Drake 3, Georgetown 3, Wisconsin-Green Bay 2.

Voting panel: Greg Andrulis, George Mason; 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.

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.