September 27, 2021
Upcoming Top Matches - Week5
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 27; using results through Sunday, September 26.
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 third 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 |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 14 Scranton (7-0) | No. 4 Misericordia (8-0) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 24 Carnegie Mellon (7-1) | No. 13 Johns Hopkins (5-0-1) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 20 Messiah (4-2-1) | No. 26 Dickinson (7-0) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 23 Williams (2-4-1) | No. 2 Amherst (5-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 1 Chicago (8-0-1) | No. 11 Emory (7-1-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 18 Trinity (Conn.) (4-1-1) | No. 22 Bowdoin (4-3) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 16 Franklin and Marshall (6-0-1) | No. 26 Dickinson (7-0) |
| Sun 10.03 | No. 9 Hamilton (4-0-2) | No. 7 Tufts (4-1) |
| Sun 10.03 | No. 2 Amherst (5-1) | No. 17 Middlebury (6-2) |
| Date | Away | Home |
| Tue 09.28 | No. 40 Stevens (5-2-1) | No. 9 Amherst (5-1) |
| Tue 09.28 | No. 3 Tufts (5-0-1) | No. 45 Babson (6-2) |
| Tue 09.28 | No. 47 St. Olaf (6-1-1) | No. 66 Luther (4-3) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 60 Rowan (7-1) | No. 6 TCNJ (7-0) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 51 Ithaca (6-1) | No. 12 Hobart (5-1) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 71 DeSales (7-1) | No. 37 York (Pa.) (5-3) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 69 Chapman (4-1-2) | No. 38 Cal Lutheran (6-3-1) |
| Wed 09.29 | No. 48 Haverford (3-2-2) | No. 67 Stevens (1-4-2) |
| Fri 10.01 | No. 29 Lynchburg (5-1) | No. 35 Washington and Lee (5-1-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 45 Wheaton (Mass.) (5-2-1) | No. 5 MIT (9-0-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 61 New York University (4-2) | No. 21 Case Western Reserve (8-0) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 31 Brandeis (4-1-2) | No. 24 Carnegie Mellon (7-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 17 Middlebury (6-2) | No. 30 Connecticut College (3-1-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 57 Randolph-Macon (4-4) | No. 36 Roanoke (6-1-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 20 Messiah (4-2-1) | No. 37 York (Pa.) (5-3) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 15 Pomona-Pitzer (5-0-1) | No. 38 Cal Lutheran (6-3-1) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 25 Washington U. (7-0-1) | No. 50 Rochester (4-2) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 51 Ithaca (6-1) | No. 55 St. Lawrence (4-1-2) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 10 McDaniel (7-0) | No. 56 Swarthmore (1-2-2) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 71 DeSales (7-1) | No. 67 Stevens (1-4-2) |
| Sat 10.02 | No. 9 Hamilton (4-0-2) | No. 73 Colby (2-2-1) |
| Sun 10.03 | No. 23 Williams (2-4-1) | No. 30 Connecticut College (3-1-1) |
| Sun 10.03 | No. 22 Bowdoin (4-3) | No. 73 Colby (2-2-1) |
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