By JAY BELL
The picture in the Pac-12 should become more clear after this weekend. The No.1 ranked California in SBI’s College Soccer Top 25 has a chance to stake its claim to the top spot on Friday before being able to watch No. 2 Washington and No. 9 UCLA play two more games this weekend. Both teams face a conference opponent Friday and then meet in Los Angeles on Sunday.
A top tilt in the Big East pits No. 5 Georgetown against No. 21 Marquette in a game between the conference’s top two teams. Another ranked matchup in the Big Ten sees No. 15 Northwestern travel to No. 14 Penn State.
Tenth-ranked Maryland will look to bounce back this weekend at Syracuse after the team’s first ACC loss of the season last week to No. 8 Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons visit Duke on Friday. Conference leaders and third-ranked Notre Dame will play host to Virginia on Saturday.
Here is a closer look at NCAA College Soccer this weekend:
COLLEGE SOCCER WEEKEND SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
3pm — Liberty vs. (6) Coastal Carolina
6:30pm — Boston College vs. Clemson
6:30pm — College of Charleston vs. (7) UAB
6:30pm — San Diego vs. (1) California
7pm — (8) Wake Forest vs. Duke
7pm — La Salle vs. VCU
9pm — Oregon St. vs. (9) UCLA
10pm — (17) UC-Santa Barbara vs. Cal Poly
10pm — (2) Washington vs. San Diego St.
SATURDAY
1pm — Creighton vs. Seton Hall
2pm — Virginia vs. (3) Notre Dame
7pm — (10) Maryland vs. Syracuse
7pm — North Carolina vs. Pittsburgh
7pm — New Mexico vs. South Carolina
7pm — Northern Illinois vs. (4) Akron
7pm — UMBC vs. Binghamton
7pm — St. John’s vs. Butler
7pm — Hofstra vs. (22) William & Mary
7pm — Elon vs. Davidson
7pm — Cincinatti vs. (13) UConn
8pm — (12) Louisville vs. Memphis
8:05pm — (5) Georgetown vs. (21) Marquette
10pm — UC-Irvine vs. (20) Cal State Northridge
SUNDAY
1pm — (15) Northwestern vs. (14) Penn St.
1pm — VCU vs. St. Joseph’s
3pm — (18) Michigan St. vs. (19) Wisconsin
4pm — (2) Washington vs. (9) UCLA
Big Ten Network has men’s college soccer this weekend.
Request to list the home team first as everyone else in soccer does. Plus that will give the proper context to each match.
Last year there was college soccer on ESPNU and CBSN, this year I haven’t seen any just women’s college soccer. Its unfortunate.
Failed to mention the biggest rivalry in college soccer: UC Santa Barbara traveling north to take on Cal Poly.
I believe history has already been made in that game. A complete sellout (of an 11,000+ person football stadium) over 30 hours before kickoff. Even students can’t get into the game.