2026 Women’s Soccer Top 25

[Gregory Sager]

BTW, thanks to Scott Peterson at the D3 Stat Lab for really getting into the weeds with that research. I learned a lot that will help me out if I ever have to explain a similar situation when I'm on the air.

[CentPA]

You have to love October Saturday's in D3 soccer!  Based on the NCAA scores page, there are 181 games being played today which means that more than 82% of teams in D3 women's soccer will see action today.

For the first time this season ALL teams in the top 25 will be playing on the same day.  Maybe even more noteworthy, there are no non-conference games involving the top 25 - they are all playing conference games today!

There are two games involving top 25 teams where both opponents are in the top 25.  As you can probably guess, with the UAA conference having 6 of 8 teams in the top 25, both games are matchups between UAA teams.  This afternoon (1:30pm EDT), #9 Emory will be hosting #23 Carnegie Mellon.  Then this evening (8:30pm), #22 NYU will be hosting #21 Chicago.  The other UAA games today are #1 Wash U traveling to Brandeis (2:30pm), and #10 Rochester hosting Case Western (7:30pm).  Rochester is looking to put an end to two straight ties at home while Case Western looks to turn a corner and get back into the top 25.

One of the early games today is at 11am.  #13 North Central travels to Elmhurst for their second conference game this year.  The weather around Chicago looks good so hopefully this game will take place (sorry I couldn't help myself  )

The NESCAC is busy as well.  At 11am, #6 Wesleyan is at (RV) Hamilton, and #8 Colby is at (RV) Middlebury.  At 12pm, #3 Tufts is at Amherst, and then at 1:30pm, #18 Williams is hosting Connecticut.

Too many games to highlight them all.  If you love D3 women's soccer and watching top 25 teams play, you could be busy from 11am this morning to around 10:30pm this evening (and you will need multiple screens)!