2008: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com October 27, 2008 (Includes games of October 26, 2008) -- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank	School	Record	Pts	Rank
1	Wake Forest (16)	15-0-1	400	1
2	Akron	13-1-2	373	5
3	Creighton	10-1-2	365	2
4	St. John's	12-1-3	346	4
5	Maryland	13-3-0	339	6
6	Northwestern	11-1-2	317	3
7	California	7-2-4	272	8
8	California-Davis	12-2-3	264	10
9	Loyola (Baltimore)	14-0-1	262	9
10	Tulsa	11-3-1	254	11
11	North Carolina	11-3-1	238	7
12	South Florida	10-3-2	226	12
13	Illinois-Chicago	10-2-4	195	14
14	Indiana	9-4-2	165	19
15	Michigan	10-4-2	156	16
16	California, Santa Barbara	9-4-2	152	18
17	Saint Louis	7-2-5	150	20
18	Connecticut	8-3-5	132	17
19	Notre Dame	9-5-2	126	15
20	Louisville	9-5-2	96	13
21	California-Irvine	8-1-6	94	21
22	Southern Methodist	9-4-2	68	23
23	Ohio State	9-5-2	48	22
24	Drake	11-3-0	32	nr
25	UCLA	7-4-5	27	nr

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

Dropped out: No. 24 Virginia, No. 25 Boston College.

Others receiving votes: Dayton 21, Butler 18, Georgetown 8, Michigan State 8, Denver 5, Duke 4, Harvard 4, Virginia 4, Western Illinois 4, Charlotte 3, Oakland 3, Washington 3, California Poly 2, Kentucky 1.

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.