9/2 Men’s Soccer Top 25 Rankings
September 1, 2013 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  |
North Carolina | The Tar Heels match against Coastal Carolina was pushed back to Monday morning due to weather. | 2 |
| 2 |  |
UCLA | The Bruins tied Notre Dame and beat Indiana in overtime. Not a bad showing for a tough road trip. | 3 |
| 3 |  |
Maryland | The Bay Area was not good to Maryland as they tied Stanford and fell 2-3 in OT at California. | 1 |
| 4 |  |
Creighton | Creighton had no trouble at home against Tulsa and Cal Poly. And those are two pretty good squads. | 6 |
| 5 |  |
Indiana | After taking care of a tough SMU squad, the Hoosiers fell at home to UCLA. With UAB and WVU, it doesn’t get easy. | 4 |
| 6 |  |
Georgetown | Following a 2-0 loss to California, Georgetown got back to their winning ways against a good Stanford squad. | 5 |
| 7 |  |
Notre Dame | The Irish were tested in week one and came away with a draw against UCLA and a 2-1 win over SMU. | 10 |
| 8 |  |
Connecticut | It was not easy, but Connecticut did get the win against St. Francis (NY) on opening day. | 11 |
| 9 |  |
Akron | The Zips started off with a couple wins on opening weekend. This week they face St. John’s and Rutgers. | 12 |
| 10 |  |
Coastal Carolina | Coastal Carolina got a great result against Wake Forest. They are trying to take down North Carolina now. | 18 |
| 11 |  |
Wake Forest | The Demon Deacons fell to a fiesty Coastal Carolina squad on opening day, but did get a win over Monmouth. | 8 |
| 12 |  |
Saint Louis | Saint Louis was not seriously tested against Oral Roberts and they shouldn’t be tested for a while. | 13 |
| 13 |  |
Virginia | Virginia had a tough loss to Louisville and their brutal schedule is not getting any easier. | 7 |
| 14 |  |
Charlotte | Knocking off Denver 2-0 is a quality win for Charlotte. The big game this week is at Coastal Carolina. | 14 |
| 15 |  |
Michigan | James Murphy and T.J. Roehn netted two goals a piece in the Wolverines opening win over Loyola (IL). | 15 |
| 16 |  |
Marquette | Marquette’s defense has gotten off to a very slow start. After a loss to Milwaukee, Green Bay netted 3 in a tie. | 9 |
| 17 |  |
Tulsa | Losing at Creighton is understandable and Tulsa rebounded nicely with a 3-0 victory over Drake. | 16 |
| 18 |  |
Louisville | Jimmy Ockford got the game winner for Louisville in a huge win against Virginia. | 25 |
| 19 |  |
New Mexico | The Lobos netted seven goals against Villanova. The story will not be the same at VCU and Georgetown. | 19 |
| 20 |  |
St. John’s | The Johnnies have Virginia, Akron and Penn State on the slate in a long, tough week of games. | 20 |
| 21 |  |
Michigan State | Michigan State avoided yet another slow start to a season by beating up on Western Michigan. | 22 |
| 22 |  |
Stanford | With Maryland and Georgetown coming to town, ending the week with one draw is not bad. | 21 |
| 23 |  |
Northwestern | Keeper Tyler Miller allowed three goals against UCSB in the Wildcats loss. DePaul and Xavier are next. | 17 |
| 24 |  |
Kentucky | In his first career start, senior Brad Doliner found the back of the net in the 86th minute to give Kentucky the win. | 23 |
| 25 |  |
Washington | The Huskies scrapped their way to a 1-0 victory at Gonzaga. This week they host a couple more WCC teams. | NR |
