Upcoming Top Matches - Week2
Each Monday during the season we plan to highlight matches in the upcoming week (Monday through Sunday, between the teams believed to be stronger sides in Division III soccer. We will use Massey Ratings to identify these teams. There are two sections below:
- Matches where both sides are ranked in the top 25.
- Contests between teams ranked 1 through 75.
- Ratings are from Monday, September 6, using results through Sunday, September 5.
As you would expect, this early in the season team rankings, whether opinion poll or statistically generated, are obviously driven mostly by results from prior year(s). The preseason ratings used this week are based on recent history (2018,2019, 2020 if available) plus results from September 1 through September 5. Expect rankings to fluctuate considerably early in the season as the Massey Ratings system "learns" the relative strength of each 2021 team.
Matches between Top 25 teams
| Date | Away | Home |
| Fri 09.10 | No. 7 Christopher Newport (1-0-1) | No. 8 Lynchburg (1-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 4 New York University (1-0-1) | No. 1 Montclair State (3-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 10 Williams (0-0) | No. 2 Tufts (0-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 22 Messiah (1-0) | No. 17 Muhlenberg (1-0) |
Contests featuring other highly competitive sides
| Date | Away | Home |
| Mon 09.06 | No. 75 Mary Hardin-Baylor (1-1) | No. 13 Franklin and Marshall (1-0) |
| Mon 09.06 | No. 71 Mass-Boston (2-0) | No. 65 Oneonta State (0-0-1) |
| Tue 09.07 | No. 43 MIT (2-0) | No. 2 Tufts (0-0) |
| Tue 09.07 | No. 69 Stockton (2-1) | No. 39 Misericordia (2-0) |
| Wed 09.08 | No. 38 Loras (2-0-1) | No. 3 North Park (2-0) |
| Wed 09.08 | No. 52 RPI (0-0-1) | No. 10 Williams (0-0) |
| Wed 09.08 | No. 12 Rowan (1-0) | No. 70 York (Pa.) (1-0-1) |
| Thu 09.09 | No. 27 John Carroll (1-0-1) | No. 58 Carnegie Mellon (1-0-1) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 54 Catholic (2-0) | No. 11 Rutgers-Camden (2-0-1) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 63 Elizabethtown (2-0) | No. 13 Franklin and Marshall (1-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 45 Colby (0-0) | No. 15 Connecticut College (0-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 28 Wesleyan (0-0) | No. 23 Middlebury (0-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 3 North Park (2-0) | No. 34 Washington U. (2-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 5 Gettysburg (1-0-1) | No. 44 Lycoming (1-0-1) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 37 Carthage (2-0-1) | No. 46 Calvin (1-0-1) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 14 Mary Washington (2-0) | No. 47 Johns Hopkins (0-0-1) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 16 Plattsburgh State (2-0) | No. 52 RPI (0-0-1) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 6 Amherst (0-0) | No. 53 Bowdoin (0-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 33 Hamilton (0-0) | No. 56 Bates (0-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 20 North Central (Ill.) (2-0) | No. 61 Dubuque (2-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 35 Case Western Reserve (2-0) | No. 73 Otterbein (2-0) |
| Sat 09.11 | No. 29 St. Thomas (Texas) (2-0) | No. 75 Mary Hardin-Baylor (1-1) |
| Sun 09.12 | No. 40 Washington College (2-1) | No. 12 Rowan (1-0) |
| Sun 09.12 | No. 55 Swarthmore (2-0) | No. 18 St. Mary's (Md.) (3-0) |
| Sun 09.12 | No. 64 St. Lawrence (2-0) | No. 65 Oneonta State (0-0-1) |
| Sun 09.12 | No. 54 Catholic (2-0) | No. 69 Stockton (2-1) |
| Sun 09.12 | No. 19 Chicago (2-0) | No. 72 St. Olaf (2-0) |
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