Upcoming Top Matches - Week3
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 13; using results through Sunday, September 12.
As you would expect, this early in the season, team rankings, whether opinion poll or statistically generated, are driven mostly by results from prior year(s). However, most teams have now completed 15% to 25% of their regular season schedules (exceptions are the NESCAC and those with schedules impacted by Covid protocols or Hurricane IDA) so day to day fluctuations in rankings will begin to stablize reflecting relative strength of 2021 sides as the Massey Ratings system "learns" from this season's results.
Matches between Top 25 teams
| Date | Away | Home |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 16 Bowdoin (2-0) | No. 1 Middlebury (2-0) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 22 Connecticut College (0-0) | No. 7 Bates (2-0) |
| Sun 09.19 | No. 12 Christopher Newport (2-0-2) | No. 15 North Park (3-1) |
| Date | Away | Home |
| Tue 09.14 | No. 68 Plattsburgh State (2-1) | No. 1 Middlebury (2-0) |
| Tue 09.14 | No. 66 RIT (4-0-1) | No. 20 Rochester (2-0-1) |
| Tue 09.14 | No. 42 Wheaton (Mass.) (3-1) | No. 22 Connecticut College (0-0) |
| Tue 09.14 | No. 5 Williams (1-1) | No. 60 Skidmore (3-0) |
| Tue 09.14 | No. 23 Capital (4-0) | No. 70 Denison (3-1) |
| Wed 09.15 | No. 43 Wesleyan (1-1) | No. 2 Tufts (2-0) |
| Wed 09.15 | No. 4 Gettysburg (2-0-1) | No. 40 Lebanon Valley (4-0) |
| Wed 09.15 | No. 27 Ohio Northern (2-1-1) | No. 54 Ohio Wesleyan (3-0-1) |
| Fri 09.17 | No. 47 Mary Hardin-Baylor (2-2) | No. 32 Trinity (Texas) (4-0) |
| Fri 09.17 | No. 53 Calvin (2-1-2) | No. 33 Emory (1-0-2) |
| Fri 09.17 | No. 12 Christopher Newport (2-0-2) | No. 48 Chicago (3-0-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 43 Wesleyan (1-1) | No. 5 Williams (1-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 52 Wheaton (Ill.) (3-1) | No. 11 Washington U. (4-0) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 36 Hamilton (1-1) | No. 19 Amherst (1-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 66 RIT (4-0-1) | No. 28 Oneonta State (3-0-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 25 Lynchburg (2-1-1) | No. 33 Emory (1-0-2) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 27 Ohio Northern (2-1-1) | No. 34 Carnegie Mellon (3-0-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 31 Coast Guard (5-0) | No. 35 WPI (3-0) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 17 Franklin and Marshall (3-0) | No. 41 Washington College (4-2) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 72 Swarthmore (3-1) | No. 44 Johns Hopkins (2-0-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 37 Roanoke (4-1) | No. 51 Mary Washington (3-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 29 John Carroll (2-1-1) | No. 54 Ohio Wesleyan (3-0-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 14 Montclair State (4-1) | No. 57 Rutgers-Camden (3-1-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 40 Lebanon Valley (4-0) | No. 63 Lycoming (3-1-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 64 Wilmington (3-0-1) | No. 70 Denison (3-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 42 Wheaton (Mass.) (3-1) | No. 73 Babson (3-1) |
| Sat 09.18 | No. 3 New York University (3-0-1) | No. 75 Stevens (2-1-1) |
| Sun 09.19 | No. 73 Babson (3-1) | No. 5 Williams (1-1) |
| Sun 09.19 | No. 60 Skidmore (3-0) | No. 35 WPI (3-0) |
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