2025 Schedules

[SierraFD3soccer]

Elizabethtown

Replaces Alfred and Washington College with an opening game @Ithaca and then home v. Penn State Berks and then replaces Lebanon Valley (who it lost to 6-0 last season) with Hood.  The Franklin & Marshall and Messiah games back-to-back, with both being away, sounds like a killer.

Interesting that Elizabethtown is playing F&M on a Saturday. For many years, the Boot Game was on a Wednesday and the same week in Sept. 46 years in a row. Usually a great turnout at both places.

Bonus - you can watch the game free unlike last year at E-Town!

Like LVC, hopefully, E-Town has a better grass field this year after several rough years.

[Kuiper]

Hardin-Simmons

Tough opening game of the season at Texas Lutheran.  After that, they play a number of games against familiar SCAC opponents, including a trip to Houston to play St. Thomas on 9/6 and then a game against Concordia three days later.  The H-S schedule gets really interesting from 9/18-9/20, with Hardin-Simmons playing Trinity on the 18th, Trinity playing Christopher Newport on the 19th in Abilene at H-S, and then Christopher Newport playing at Hardin-Simmons on the 20th.  Three must-see games in a row.  Plus, it's one thing for Christopher Newport to travel to San Antonio to play H-S and Trinity, but to travel to Abilene?!  It's not that different flight-wise (probably fly from Norfolk with a change of plane in Dallas), but let's just say there's no Riverwalk in Abilene, although they do have something called the Cedar Creek Waterway.  Fortunately, all three games are at 7:30 pm because the average high in Abilene that time of year is in the low 90s.  Last year, the high was 95 degrees.  It could still be in the 90s during warmups and stay in the 80s all game, which might make this a real conditioning test for CNU.   

The H-S conference schedule is a reminder that there are only 4 schools left for soccer in 2025-2026 before reinforcements arrive in the form of McMurry and Schreiner (who they play as non-conference opponents this season).  All teams in the ASC are playing a home-and-away against every other team, but H-S manages to fit in a non-conference game at Belhaven in Jackson, MS on a Wednesday between a game at Mary Hardin-Baylor on a Saturday and a game at Marshall, TX against East Texas Baptist on Friday evening.  That's an 8.5 hour drive to Jackson on a Wednesday, so I wonder if they have some kind of school break and they are staying over in Jackson on Wednesday night and traveling on Thursday to play ETBU on Friday (halfway between Jackson and Abilene).  Otherwise, that's a heck of a lot of travel during the week, even for a Texas school.

[Ejay]

Interesting that Elizabethtown is playing F&M on a Saturday. For many years, the Boot Game was on a Wednesday and the same week in Sept. 46 years in a row.

Not that it matters, but I'm confused by the above statement.
2024 - Wed 9/11
2023 - Sat 9/8
2022 - Sat 9/10
2021 - Sat 9/11

[SierraFD3soccer]

Interesting that Elizabethtown is playing F&M on a Saturday. For many years, the Boot Game was on a Wednesday and the same week in Sept. 46 years in a row.

Not that it matters, but I'm confused by the above statement.
2024 - Wed 9/11
2023 - Sat 9/8
2022 - Sat 9/10
2021 - Sat 9/11

You are right. My mistake.

[SierraFD3soccer]

Muhlenberg

https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2025

I think the first Cent. Conf. team to post.  They appear to not play any particularly tough out of conf. teams.

[Kuiper]

Muhlenberg

https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2025

I think the first Cent. Conf. team to post.  They appear to not play any particularly tough out of conf. teams.

They replaced Scranton, Kean, TCNJ, and Salisbury with Neumann, FDU-Florham, Rutgers-Camden, and Widener.  Probably a similar SoS, if not a little better.

[BigSoccerFan]

Rowan s schedule is on instagram

[Kuiper]

Rowan s schedule is on instagram

A step back from the Murderer's Row string of non-conference games in last season's schedule (F&M, Johns Hopkins, Cortland, Mary Washington, Christopher Newport, Messiah, and Washington College), but they can hardly be blamed for that.  Opening with NYU and Gettysburg away and Cortland at home is no picnic in the park and they still have F&M at home and Messiah away to contend with this season.

[Kuiper]

Lewis & Clark

The watch continues for their first win! For those who aren't familiar with them, Lewis & Clark re-started their men's soccer team in 2022 and in three seasons they are 0-47-1.  The biggest question mark on the 2025 schedule is why they are playing DI University of Portland in their first scrimmage of the preseason.  Seriously, what does Portland get out of this game even if they are playing their deepest reserves?  I guess they are only 12 miles apart, so it's convenient.  In any event, it's just a scrimmage.  In non-conference, L&C play three NAIA teams and Whittier from the SCIAC, which presumably will be playing another NWC team while they are in the area.  The rest of the games are home-and-away contests with NWC foes. L&C's best chance for a win might be Bushnell (NAIA) in the first game of the season.  Linfield beat Bushnell 4-1 last season in their first game of the season, although Bushnell beat Pacific 3-1 the next game.

Luther

A bit of a downgrade as CMS, Redlands, Franklin, and North Park are replaced by Wisconsin-Superior, Wisconsin-River Falls, and St. Scholastica, but they still play a lot of tough teams with Macalester, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus, Wisconsin-Platteville, and Augsburg.

[SierraFD3soccer]

Rowan s schedule is on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ7SSVAxMB4/?img_index=2

[Kuiper]

Colorado College

Always fun to see the crazy travel schedule of Colorado College, which is the most deserted island of the island schools in DIII. This year, the strength-of-schedule dips a bit as CC has to fill the big shoes of some key graduating seniors, including all-everything Curtis Hale. Nevertheless, they have scheduled some really solid schools, which include several that could breakthrough this season.  It's the kind of schedule that could be sneakily strong.  They travel to the Midwest for opening weekend to take on DePauw (10-5-6 and lost in the NCAA's to Hope) and Wheaton (IL) (10-7-1 and lost to North Central in the CCIW tourney).  Do they dare drive?  I mean, it's only about 15 hours to DePauw!  The following weekend, they host Whitman, Cal Lutheran, and Mary Hardin-Baylor (10-6-3) in a really intriguing Region X invitational that nets them three games in four days.  Whitman was 12-6-2 last season and finished third in the NWC despite beating champion Pacific Lutheran 2-1 on the final game of the season.  Mary Hardin-Baylor was 10-6-3 and 7-0-1 as the regular season ASC champion, but lost a heartbreaking upset game in PKs to Letourneau in the ASC tournament after beating them 4-1 in the final regular season game.  Cal Lutheran had a down season in the SCIAC, finishing 6-9-5, but it handed SCIAC tournament champion Claremont-Mudd-Scripps one of its only losses of the season and still qualified for the SCIAC tournament. The following weekend it hosts Carroll before taking two weeks off to get ready for SCAC play, where they should be serious contenders even with some rebuilding, especially with Trinity and Southwestern gone to the SAA. They are helped by the fact that two of the stronger SCAC teams - Texas Lutheran and Concordia TX - play Colorado College in Colorado Springs this season, where CC has only lost once in the last three seasons.  They do have to travel to Houston to play St. Thomas this season, where they have lost to UST in the SCAC semifinals two years in a row.

Greensboro

After a 2-13-3 season, Greensboro is kind of desperate for some more wins.  It plays LaGrange and Ferrum again - the two teams it beat last season - but both games are away rather than home this season, so it would be too much to say that those are sure things. I guess to make sure it doesn't do any worse than last season, it adds Carolina Christian College, an NCCAA school that doesn't even list its results on its webpage and only started the team in 2023, and Mid-Atlantic Christian University, a USCAA school that was 0-9-1 and lost to Regent 10-0, and North Carolina Wesleyan 14-0 and 8-0. That's one way to "schedule" some wins.

[Kuiper]

Kenyon

Kenyon once again has a tough schedule. Not as travel-heavy as last season, but some good regional opponents and strong teams visiting Gambier.  It starts the season away at Capital, a team it scrimmaged last season, but hasn't played in a regular season game in over a decade (since 2014), which is kind of odd for a school that is just over an hour from Kenyon and has fielded competitive teams of late. Glad that Travis Wall has reinstituted it and is willing to play them away. Then they play four straight high quality opponents, with the first three at home - Edgewood (17-2-2 last season and missed out on the NCAA's when they lost to Aurora in the NACC tournament), Johns Hopkins (13-3-5 and losing to W&L in Pks in the third round of the NCAAs), Franklin & Marshall (10-3-7 and losing to Conn College in the 2nd round), and away to Franciscan, which tied Kenyon 2-2 in Gambier en route to a 13-2-5 record and a 1-0 loss to ONU in the first round of the tournament). It also adds Hanover (9-5-5 last season) and Case Western (a down season, but it did tie Denison and Mt. Union and beat John Carroll) and replaces NCAC bottom dweller Hiram with newcomer John Carroll in conference play.

[Kuiper]

Rochester

Hosts Cortland to open the season and then four straight away games. Only difference in opponents between this season and last is they replace Stevens with York and Oswego State.  The big difference in UAA play is that they had only three games at home last season, where they were 6-0-3, and only one after Oct 12 and they have four at home in 2025, all of which are Oct. 18 or later.  They had the best overall record in the UAA last season, but the late season UAA losses/ties are what prevented them from getting the NCAA bid (their only win in their last four conference games was the only one they played at home).

Brandeis

Drops Vassar, Union, Western New England, and Eastern Connecticut State and picks up Coast Guard, Regis, Wesleyan, John Carroll, and Anna Maria.  Seems fairly similar, depending upon how good Wesleyan and John Carroll are this year.

Ripon

Drops Edgewood, Martin Luther, and Coe and adds Wisconsin-Stevens Point

[Kuiper]

York

After a tie against Washington College last season, York decides to load up on Centennial opponents, playing Franklin & Marshall and Gettysburg, in addition to hosting Washington College. Also adds Rochester instead of Carnegie Mellon from the UAA, and St. Mary's (MD) instead of Penn State Abington frmo the United East.  After not qualifying for the NCAA's last season with a 14-2-5 record, they'll have to hope these additions are enough to push them up the ladder if they can't get by Messiah.

Westminster

Adding Mount Union and John Carroll, as well as Penn State Kensington instead of Pitt-Bradford, who they beat 9-1 last season.

Penn State Altoona

Replaces Grove City and Geneva with McDaniel and Alfred and also adds Waynesburg and Penn State Scranton.

[westroadsf]

Lewis & Clark

The watch continues for their first win! For those who aren't familiar with them, Lewis & Clark re-started their men's soccer team in 2022 and in three seasons they are 0-47-1.  The biggest question mark on the 2025 schedule is why they are playing DI University of Portland in their first scrimmage of the preseason.  Seriously, what does Portland get out of this game even if they are playing their deepest reserves?  I guess they are only 12 miles apart, so it's convenient.  In any event, it's just a scrimmage.  In non-conference, L&C play three NAIA teams and Whittier from the SCIAC, which presumably will be playing another NWC team while they are in the area.  The rest of the games are home-and-away contests with NWC foes. L&C's best chance for a win might be Bushnell (NAIA) in the first game of the season.  Linfield beat Bushnell 4-1 last season in their first game of the season, although Bushnell beat Pacific 3-1 the next game.
One possible reason for this U of P schedule friendly is both L&C coaches are former U or P mens soccer coaches (Bill Irwin for many years and Jim Tursi)

Luther

A bit of a downgrade as CMS, Redlands, Franklin, and North Park are replaced by Wisconsin-Superior, Wisconsin-River Falls, and St. Scholastica, but they still play a lot of tough teams with Macalester, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus, Wisconsin-Platteville, and Augsburg.