2008: Men's Top 25 Poll | Women's Top 25 Poll Compiled by Gary Davidson, managing editor, www.SoccerTimes.com September 2, 2008 (Includes games of September 1, 2008) -- First-place votes in parentheses --

Rank	School	2007 Record	Pts	2007 Rank
1	Wake Forest (16)	2-0-0	400	1
2	Connecticut	1-0-1	368	2
3	Southern Methodist	2-0-0	339	9
4	Indiana	1-0-1	329	5
5	Creighton	1-0-0	318	8
6	California	2-0-0	307	14
7	Akron	1-0-1	297	17
8	Maryland	1-1-0	269	4
9	California, Santa Barbara	1-0-0	242	10
10	Boston College	1-1-0	199	7
11	South Florida	1-0-0	194	15
12	Notre Dame	1-1-0	176	6
13	Tulsa	1-0-1	161	22
14	Ohio State	2-0-0	152	12
15	Northwestern	2-0-0	147	21
16	UCLA	1-1-0	137	13
17	Illinois-Chicago	1-0-1	135	18
18	Virginia Tech	1-0-1	122	19
19	Saint Louis	0-0-2	104	11
20	St. John's	2-0-0	101	nr
21	Brown	0-0-0	98	16
22	Santa Clara	0-2-0	95	3
23	Bradley	2-0-0	81	nr
24	New Mexico	1-0-1	75	24
25	North Carolina	2-0-0	70	nr

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

Dropped out: No. 23 Louisville, No. 25 Virginia.

Others receiving votes: Portland 47, South Carolina 34, Michigan 28, Louisville 24, Massachusetts 22, Providence 22, California Poly 14, Harvard 14, Loyola-Chicago 14, California-Davis 13, Kentucky 8, Loyola Marymount 8, Stanford 8, West Virginia 6, Loyola (Baltimore) 4, Virginia Commonwealth 4, Evansville 2, Wisconsin 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.