2006: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com 2006 Preseason (First-place votes in parentheses)

Rank	School	2005 Record	Pts	2005 Ranking
1	Maryland (8)	19-4-2	356	1
2	North Carolina (3)	17-4-3	331	6
3	Southern Methodist (1)	14-6-3	326	5
4	Connecticut (1)	16-3-2	320	9
5	Virginia (2)	12-5-3	310	10
6	Creighton (1)	15-5-3	289	8
7	New Mexico	18-2-3	285	2
8	UCLA	12-5-3	279	16
9	Indiana	13-3-6	276	12
10	Clemson	15-6-3	252	4
11	Akron	18-1-4	235	3
12	Duke	12-5-3	221	15
13	California	14-4-3	207	7
14	Notre Dame	12-8-3	203	18
15	Penn State	13-7-2	183	11
16	South Florida	13-6-2	148	24t
17	Wake Forest	13-8-2	117	19
18	Santa Clara	13-6-3	105	20
19	California-Santa Barbara	13-5-3	101	22
20	North Carolina-Greensboro	16-6-1	96	17
21	St. John's	11-6-5	93	14
22	California State-Northridge	15-4-3	75	13
23	Old Dominion	15-4-2	62	21
24	South Carolina	12-7-2	45	nr
25	San Francisco	11-6-4	39	nr

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

Others receiving votes: Wisconsin-Milwaukee 34, Rutgers 30, Virginia Tech 21, Missouri State 20, Saint Louis 20, Washington 19, Wisconsin 13, Loyola Marymount 11, San Diego 12, Yale 12, Seton Hall 11, San Diego State 10, Ohio State 5, Memphis 4, Cincinnati 3, Alabama-Birmingham 2, Brown 2, California-Irvine 2, Coastal Carolina 2, Tulsa 2.

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.

2005 College Soccer Polls
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