2026 Women’s Soccer Top 25

[CentPA]

The NCAA NPI rankings were updated this morning: through games 10/11/2026

[BusyBee]

Until you get to minimum wins (8 for women's soccer), NPI is just killed by playing crappy teams as those "bad wins" hurt you so much.  Once you get to 8 in WSOC you start dropping any win result that hurts your overall NPI.  Wins above minimum that help your NPI are retained.   And good or bad, all losses are part of your NPI.

What frustrates me about the dials are that you get no bonus for an away win.  At least it's the same on the men's side; some sports treat them radically differently, such as basketball where the men get a 20% bonus for an away non-conference win, a 10% bonus for an away conference win, while the women get no bonus of any kind for away wins.  If you want to look at all of the dials go to https://www.ncaa.org/championships/general-championship-resources/ncaa-power-index/ under "Division III Championship Resources". 

Ron Boerger - thanks for this link! I read it carefully and now have a much better understanding (though perhaps not fully agreeing)

Looks like the 8 plus wins (that count) kicked in as PP number back up to 49 and hopefully will continue to creep up. Massey has them at 17 now and we will see what the USC is tomorrow (I can't imagine them moving up).

Can't believe there is only 3 weeks to go in the regular season and then its conference and other tournament time!

[Ron Boerger]

LOL, I don't think anyone *agrees* with NPI.   And you're very welcome!

[CentPA]

Wash U for the first time this year has all three rankings locked up at #1:

        USC    #1
         NPI    #1
Massey     #1

[CentPA]

Interesting top 25 (based on USC) non conference matchup today at noon between #7 Colby traveling south from Maine to Georgia to take on #21 Emory.  It was the first ever matchup between these two teams - so you have the NESCAC taking on the UAA mid day!

Colby coming off their 2-3 loss two days ago at #26 Wesleyan would get upset at Emory 0-2!  Tough back to back losses on the road (long road between these two games!) for Colby.  Both of Emory's goals happened in the first 21 minutes of the game.