2009: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com September 28, 2009 (Records include games of Sunday, September 27) -- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Akron (16)	7-0-0	400	1
2	Maryland	5-1-1	376	3
3	Wake Forest	5-1-1	370	6
4	North Carolina	5-1-1	340	2
5	UCLA	5-1-0	328	8
6	South Florida	6-1-1	299	4
7	Indiana	4-2-1	297	12
8	California	6-2-0	285	5
9	Harvard	6-1-0	255	11
10	California, Santa Barbara	6-2-1	245	9
11	Virginia	5-2-0	230	7
12	Monmouth	8-0-0	222	18t
13	Duke	5-2-0	165	14
14	Ohio State	5-0-3	141	nr
15	Northwestern	4-1-3	124	22
16	Stanford	6-1-0	117	nr
17	Louisville	5-1-2	114	10
18	Dartmouth	4-2-1	100	13
19	Kentucky	7-1-0	96	nr
20	Boston University	6-2-1	89	nr
21	Maryland, Baltimore County	9-0-0	81	nr
22	Michigan	7-2-0	80	16
23	Portland	5-1-1	68	nr
24	Georgetown	6-2-1	48	nr
25	Michigan State	4-2-1	43	18t

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

Dropped out: No. 15 Creighton, No. 17 St. John's, No. 20 North Carolina State, No. 21 Notre Dame, No. 23 California-Irvine, No. 24 California State-Northridge, No. 25 Loyola Marymount.

Others receiving votes: California-Irvine 40, New Mexico 29, Notre Dame 29, Creighton 28, Old Dominion 23, Boston College 22, North Carolina State 22, St. John's 21, Loyola Marymount 19, Alabama at Birmingham 17, Connecticut 13, Evansville 12, Brown 8, Davidson 7, Drake 6, Butler 5, California State-Northridge 4, West Virginia 4, Missouri State 3, Adelphi 1, Rutgers 1, Saint Mary's (Calif.) 1.

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.