2006: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com Monday, October 9, 2006 (Records include games of Sunday, October 8) (First-place votes in parentheses)

Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Southern Methodist (16)	12-0-1	400	1
2	Maryland	10-1-1	384	2
3	Virginia	11-2-0	331	3
4	Duke	8-2-1	330	8
5	West Virginia	10-1-2	329	6
6	Wake Forest	10-2-1	327	7
7	UCLA	8-3-2	300	9
8	Clemson	9-2-1	291	4
9	North Carolina	10-2-2	261	5
10	Indiana	8-3-2	239	11
11	Illinois-Chicago	9-1-2	235	20
12	Notre Dame	9-3-2	225	15
13	South Carolina	10-2-0	212	13
14	California	8-3-1	170	16
15	San Francisco	9-3-1	139	25
16	Old Dominion	8-2-1	135	14
17	Santa Clara	7-3-3	131	17
18	Brown	8-1-1	115	21
19	New Mexico	8-3-2	112	23t
20 (tie)	Kentucky	8-3-1	54	20
20 (tie)	Saint Louis	7-3-1	54	nr
22	Akron	7-3-1	49	23t
23	Connecticut	8-3-2	47	nr
24	Washington	8-4-0	38	10
25	California-Irvine	8-2-2	34	19

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

Dropped out: No. 18 Memphis, No. 19 California-Irvine, No. 22 Wisconsin

Others receiving votes: Creighton 29, Fairfield 28, Memphis 28, Cincinnati 21, Wisconsin 19, Alabama-Birmingham 18, James Madison 18, California-Santa Barbara 16, Stanford 12, Fairleigh Dickinson 11, San Diego State 11, George Mason 10, Northern Illinois 10, Lehigh 6, Providence 5, Boston College 4, San Diego 3, South Florida 1.

Voting panel: Louis Bennett, Marquette; Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; Ian Collins, Kentucky; Dan Donigan, Saint Louis; Jeremy Fishbein, New Mexico; Mike Freitag, Indiana; Mike Getman, Alabama-Birmingham; Kevin Grimes, California; Schellas Hyndman, Southern Methodist; Mike Jacobs, Evansville; Paul Krumpe, Loyola Marymount; Ken Lolla, Louisville; Ray Reid, Connecticut; John Rennie, Duke; 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.

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