2008: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com September 8, 2008 (Includes games of September 7, 2008) -- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank	School	Record	Pts	Rank
1	Wake Forest (16)	4-0-0	400	1
2	Creighton	3-0-0	358	5
3	Southern Methodist	3-0-1	356	3
4	Connecticut	2-0-2	328	2
5	California	3-0-1	325	6
6	Akron	3-0-1	311	7
7	Maryland	3-1-0	306	8
8	California, Santa Barbara	3-0-0	291	9
9	Notre Dame	3-1-0	251	12
10	Ohio State	3-0-1	234	14
11	Boston College	2-1-1	225	10
12	St. John's	3-0-1	219	20
13	Saint Louis	2-0-2	188	19
14	Northwestern	3-0-1	184	15
15	Illinois-Chicago	3-0-1	182	17
16	North Carolina	3-0-1	164	25
17	Indiana	1-1-2	144	4
18	Tulsa	2-1-1	121	13
19	South Florida	1-1-1	83	11
20	Brown	1-1-0	71	21
21	UCLA	1-2-1	67	16
22	Virginia Tech	2-1-1	60	18
23	Louisville	3-0-1	48	nr
24	Dartmouth	1-1-0	33	nr
25 (tie)	Bradley	2-1-1	31	23
25 (tie)	New Mexico	2-1-1	31	24

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

Dropped out: No. 22 Santa Clara.

Others receiving votes: Georgetown 28, Loyola-Chicago 25, Santa Clara 22, Massachusetts 21, Michigan 19, Evansville 17, Seton Hall 7, Stanford 7, California Poly 5, Drake 5, Loyola Marymount 5, South Carolina 5, Wisconsin 5, California-Davis 4, California State-Northridge 4, Providence 4, Washington 4, Western Illinois 4, Oakland 3, Loyola (Baltimore) 2, Harvard 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.