October 25, 2021
Upcoming Top Matches - Week 9
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 25; using results through Sunday, October 24.
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 nearly completed 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.
Men's matches between Top 25 teams
| Date | Away | Home |
| Tue 10.26 | No. 11 Connecticut College (11-3) | No. 16 Wesleyan (10-2-2) |
| Sun 10.31 | No. 12 Emory (8-1-4) | No. 6 New York University (9-3-1) |
Men's contests featuring other highly competitive sides
| Date | Away | Home |
| Tue 10.26 | No. 37 Lebanon Valley (12-3) | No. 31 Franklin and Marshall (12-2-1) |
| Tue 10.26 | No. 25 Middlebury (9-3-2) | No. 33 Williams (7-5-2) |
| Tue 10.26 | No. 3 Tufts (10-1-2) | No. 34 Bowdoin (9-4-1) |
| Tue 10.26 | No. 55 WPI (8-4-3) | No. 50 Mass-Boston (12-2-1) |
| Wed 10.27 | No. 71 Salisbury (6-6-1) | No. 15 Christopher Newport (7-4-2) |
| Wed 10.27 | No. 69 Pomona-Pitzer (7-5-1) | No. 19 Redlands (11-2-1) |
| Wed 10.27 | No. 61 Ohio Northern (9-6-2) | No. 21 Otterbein (12-0-3) |
| Wed 10.27 | No. 60 Vassar (10-2-2) | No. 39 RPI (10-3-2) |
| Wed 10.27 | No. 65 Hope (10-4-2) | No. 57 Kalamazoo (10-3-2) |
| Fri 10.29 | No. 62 Penn State-Harrisburg (12-1-1) | No. 1 Messiah (13-0-2) |
| Fri 10.29 | No. 28 Rochester (7-2-3) | No. 6 New York University (9-3-1) |
| Fri 10.29 | No. 9 Chicago (10-4-1) | No. 51 Case Western Reserve (6-5-2) |
| Sat 10.30 | No. 55 WPI (8-4-3) | No. 26 MIT (13-2-1) |
| Sat 10.30 | No. 30 Johns Hopkins (11-2-2) | No. 31 Franklin and Marshall (12-2-1) |
| Sat 10.30 | No. 47 Wilmington (11-1-3) | No. 35 John Carroll (8-3-4) |
| Sat 10.30 | No. 70 Whitman (11-3) | No. 46 Willamette (11-4-1) |
| Sat 10.30 | No. 52 Babson (8-4-3) | No. 48 Springfield (9-5) |
| Sat 10.30 | No. 29 Mary Washington (8-3-2) | No. 71 Salisbury (6-6-1) |
| Sun 10.31 | No. 17 Washington U. (9-2-1) | No. 51 Case Western Reserve (6-5-2) |
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