October 4, 2021
Upcoming Top Matches - Week6
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, October 4; using results through Sunday, October 10.
While there are still a few "head scratching" anomalies, and we all have our own opinions, team rankings are settling in as the Massey Ratings system learn's from this season's results. As most teams have now completed at least one half of their regular season schedules. Note that we are still using Massey here rather than our own Top 25 poll is the desire to go deeper in the ratings pool to 75 teams.
Matches between Top 25 teams
| Date | Away | Home |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 22 Lebanon Valley (8-1) | No. 3 Messiah (7-0-2) |
| Sun 10.10 | No. 6 Emory (5-1-2) | No. 12 Washington U. (7-1) |
| Sun 10.10 | No. 4 Tufts (8-0-1) | No. 25 Middlebury (6-2) |
| Date | Away | Home |
| Mon 10.04 | No. 63 UW-Whitewater (8-1-1) | No. 50 Luther (6-4) |
| Tue 10.05 | No. 36 Coast Guard (8-1-1) | No. 31 Wesleyan (4-2-1) |
| Tue 10.05 | No. 57 Bowdoin (5-3) | No. 51 Colby (4-3-1) |
| Wed 10.06 | No. 69 Carthage (6-3-2) | No. 19 Chicago (6-3-1) |
| Wed 10.06 | No. 32 Lynchburg (5-4-1) | No. 35 Roanoke (6-2-2) |
| Wed 10.06 | No. 9 North Park (8-3) | No. 43 Wheaton (Ill.) (6-1-1) |
| Wed 10.06 | No. 15 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (8-1-1) | No. 45 Pomona-Pitzer (5-1) |
| Wed 10.06 | No. 71 Mount Union (7-1-1) | No. 60 John Carroll (4-3-2) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 30 Gettysburg (5-3-1) | No. 17 Franklin and Marshall (8-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 40 Rochester (4-1-3) | No. 19 Chicago (6-3-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 49 New Paltz State (9-2) | No. 20 Oneonta State (8-0-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 41 St. Mary's (Md.) (9-2) | No. 21 Christopher Newport (4-3-2) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 39 Washington College (7-3) | No. 23 Johns Hopkins (7-0-2) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 47 Bates (6-3) | No. 25 Middlebury (6-2) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 5 Amherst (8-1) | No. 31 Wesleyan (4-2-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 51 Colby (4-3-1) | No. 34 Williams (4-4-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 56 Babson (6-3-1) | No. 36 Coast Guard (8-1-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 71 Mount Union (7-1-1) | No. 46 Wilmington (7-0-2) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 33 Kenyon (7-1-1) | No. 53 Denison (5-3-1) |
| Sat 10.09 | No. 15 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (8-1-1) | No. 58 Cal Lutheran (5-2-2) |
| Sun 10.10 | No. 47 Bates (6-3) | No. 5 Amherst (8-1) |
| Sun 10.10 | No. 57 Bowdoin (5-3) | No. 34 Williams (4-4-1) |
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