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Congratulations to Matthew Paiva for winning Big East defensive player of the week It is a travesty that Matthew is not on the mid year Hermann Trophy watch list. Matthew has been playing All America caliber soccer all year. https://www.bigeast.com/news/2026/10/12/four-teams-earn-big-east-mens-soccer-weekly-honors.aspx

Akron stays at number 10 in the October 12th College Soccer News poll https://collegesoccernews.com/college-soccer-news-mens-soccer-week-8-top-25-poll-clemson-joins-the-top-contenders-after-comeback/

class of 2028 recruit forward from Indy Premier https://www.instagram.com/p/DeFqUy5kef-/?img_index=1

as of 9 pm. zips stayed at 13 in RPI Creighton improved from 17 to 14

The ZIPs should be very proud of the grit and toughness shown in the last 37 minutes. they played very inspired soccer and battled their hearts out

Phenomenal effort by Sam Bunch to earn PK

Going into today's slate of NCAA soccer games, Akron is #13 in RPI and Creighton is #17 in RPI. Georgetown is #1. Great opportunity for the zips to move back into the RPI top 10.

Saturday evening games... Number 3 Georgetown 3 St. John's 0 Number 11 Louisville 1 Syracuse 0 DePaul 2 UConn 1 Duquesne 3 Dayton 1 St. Louis 3 LaSalle 2 Cleveland State 5 N. Kentucky 3 Marquette 4 Butler 0 finally, non soccer related !!!....how bout those never say die Guardians !!!!

Saturday October 10 afternoon games....several Big East teams in action tonight Seton Hall and number 18 Xavier finished in a 0-0 tie the wild game of the afternoon was number 22 Cornell earning a 5-3 win over Penn Providence and Villanova battled to a 3-3 draw Robert Moris and Purdue- Fort Wayne played 90 minutes with no goals games tonight..... DePaul and UConn - that game started at 6 number 3 Georgetown at St. John's number 11 Louisville at Syracuse Dayton at Duquesne St. Louis at LaSalle N. Kentucky at Cleveland State Butler at Marquette

Creighton has a fairly detailed preview of the game https://gocreighton.com/news/2026/10/9/-6-mens-soccer-takes-on-12-akron-on-sunday Creighton's offense has been consistent and prolific this season with 40 goals, 44 assists and 124 points to lead the NCAA in each category. Creighton has three players in the top-40 in the NCAA in goals scored, led by 10 goals from senior defender Matthew Reed. Angel Lopez is 19th with seven goals, while Ayden Kokoszka ranks 37th with six goals. Bluejays One of Just Five Undefeated Teams in D1 Creighton is one of just five programs at the D1 level that enter the weekend undefeated, not surprisingly all five at ranked by United Soccer Coaches. SMU holds the top spot at 9-0-1, Indiana is No. 2 at 10-0-2. The Bluejays are ranked No. 6 at 10-0-3, while Missouri State (9-0-2) and Xavier (8-0-2) are No. 8 and No. 18 respectively. https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d1 If you look at NCAA stats, Matthew Reed is 2nd in the NCAA with 10 goals. Creighton is 2nd in NCAA with 3.08 goals per game.

Friday October 9 Wake Forest 2 Boston College 1 Navy 4 Army 3

This is a great interview. It is great that he gave Ger and Michael a chance to answer so many questions. It is great to see the passion from all 3 coaches.

Brett had big shoes (Mitch Budler) to fill. Brett has been very good this year. Matthew Paiva should be one of the leading candidates for Big East Defensive player of the year. Goals get the attention but I would argue that Matthew Paiva is the team MVP so far this year.

Francisco Tolaba only played 17 minutes but he made a tremendous pass. Remi really used his strength credit to both young men for creating magic

at 9:50, the zips are up to #10 in RPI

Tuesday October 6 #11 Louisville 4 DePaul 1 #18 Xavier 4 Evansville 0 Massachusetts and #22 Cornell played to a 1-1 tie Villanova 3 New Haven 1 Bryant 1 UConn 0 Sacred Heart and Seton Hall finished in a 1-1 draw St. John's 1 Monmouth 0 Marquette 7 Carroll (WI) 2

Akron goes from #18 to #9 in Top Drawer Soccer weekly poll https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-national-rankings/men 4 Big east teams in top 11

Saturday October 3 VCU 4 Dayton 3 coming into the game, VCU had a record of 0-7-2. Dayton had a record of 6-1-3. #11 South Carolina and #16 W. Virginia played to a 1-1 draw. Milwaukee 1 Robert Morris 0 Cornell 2 Brown 1 Lafayette 1 Army 0 Cleveland St 2 IU-Indy 0 St. Louis 1 St. Joseph's 0

Friday October 2 #1 SMU 2 Wake Forest 0 #3 Georgetown 6 Providence 1 as @Zips1991 reported ; #4 Creighton and St. John's played to 1-1 tie Syracuse and #10 Pitt also played to a 1-1 draw Syracuse also has a win over Notre Dame was ranked #10 With Syracuse and Creighton at home next week, the Zips have a great opportunity to make a major move in RPI ratings. #25 Xavier 3 Marquette 0 UConn 1 Villanova 0 Seton Hall and Butler ended in a 0-0 result At 11:30 on Friday night, here are the current RPI ratings for Zips opponents and all Big East teams Georgetown 3 Akron 10 Xavier 14 Creighton 15 Syracuse 20 W. Virginia 23 Cornell 30 Marquette 31 St. John's 37 Wake Forest 41 St. Louis 45 Providence 55 Dayton 72 (Dayton's only loss is to Akron - record of 6-1-3) Villanova 75 UConn 113 Seton Hall 117 DePaul 131 Robert Morris 144 Army 152 Butler 160 Cleveland State 171

Tuesday September 29 #4 Creighton 4 Omaha 2 Blue Jays can score some goals !! Wake Forest 3 Loyola Chicago 0 Dayton 6 Bluffton 0 Drake and St. Louis played to a 1-1 tie

College soccer news #8 last week #10 this week https://collegesoccernews.com/college-soccer-news-mens-soccer-week-6-top-25-poll-smu-claims-top-spot-after-dominant-weekend/

top drawer soccer zips #17 last week #18 this week https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-national-rankings/men

Friday September 25 Syracuse 1 #10 Notre Dame 0 Wake Forest 2 NC State 1 The Northeaster weather system played havoc with Big East games this weekend UConn at St. John's - postponed....rescheduled for Tuesday October 27 DePaul at Seton Hall - postponed ...rescheduled for Tuesday October 27 Butler at Providence - postponed....will be played on a later date Saturday September 26 #7 Creighton 3 Marquette 2 Cornell 4 Harvard 1 Dayton and LaSalle played to 1-1 tie Cleveland State and Milwaukee played to 0-0 result Green Bay and Robert Morris played to a 0-0 tie Xavier 2 Villanova 0 St. Louis 1 Duquesne 0 Army's scheduled home match with American was postponed