Other scores - Week 6

Thursday - Maryland remains undefeated, beating Virginia 3-2.

Friday - Pepperdine leads UCLA 1-0 in the 63rd minute; UNC defeats NC State 3-0; Notre Dame leads Syracuse 2-0 late in second half.

there were some other pretty interesting scores the last couple days.

WCC wins:

Pepp beat UCLA 1-0 ending a home winning steak for the Bruins that goes back to 2005. HUGE win for them.
USD beat USC 1-0
LMU beat Fullerton 1-0

in the loss column:

USF lost to Northern Arizona 1-0
Gonzaga got pounded by WSU 4-0

Teams we have played:

TAMU beat Kansas 1-0
Penn state won its first league match with Michigan st. 1-0
Rutger beat UConn 2-0
Wisconsin beat Minnesota 1-0 the Big ten will be interesting this year
OK state beat Mizzou 3-1
SMU beat East Carolina 1-0
Northridge beat UC Davis 1-0


PSU tied Utah Valley 1-1


in the loss column:

Syracuse lost to ND 3-0


and just for fun:
Oregon State over Weber st 3-2


An interesting game Saturday should be St. Mary's –– Cal

here's something to keep an eye on besides the usual top ranking games--

Right now the WCC owns an 8-7-3 lead over the PAC10 in interconference games.

Three games remain, all today.

USF-Arizona
Santa Clara -Stanford
UP-UW

It will be interesting to see the final outcome for bragging rights.

BTW - did you know the only linkage between the WCC and the ACC this year is a game between Maryland and Gonzaga?

(UM won 2:0)

Virginia 3 Boston College 2 (OT)

Stanford and Santa Clara tied 0-0 at the half, with Stanford outshooting the Broncos 12-0.

In the goalkeeper special for the day, Nebraska defeated Texas Tech 5-4 in OT. Nebraska led 4-2 with 4 minutes left, and TT scored twice to tie it (the second at 89:59), but then lost in the first two minutes of OT.

(2)Stanford (9-0-2) vs. (12)Santa Clara (7-3-2) - W 2-0

Stanfords loss to cal could throw the seeding pool wide open now

I've lost track of this a little. Am I correct that Notre Dame, BC, Stanford, UNC and UP are the top 5? Notre Dame and Stanford one and two?? If so, BC's loss would seem to drop them to 5, with UNC or us in 3rd. Correct??

Sorry the Stanford score was the men's team losing to Cal

I did some checking - Notre Dame has two losses, including one to UCLA. Stanford has two ties, against BC and UNC. UNC also has a loss to Va. It seems like that should make Stanford number one, unless I am missing something, with us having a reasonable chance to be in the top 4, maybe even number 2 (right now). Does that compute?

fan from afar wrote:I did some checking - Notre Dame has two losses, including one to UCLA. Stanford has two ties, against BC and UNC. UNC also has a loss to Va. It seems like that should make Stanford number one, unless I am missing something, with us having a reasonable chance to be in the top 4, maybe even number 2 (right now). Does that compute?

Notre dame has 1 loss. Here's the records and unadjusted RPI for the top 20. it is VERY close at the top.

Courtesy NC-Soccer.com

Geezaldinho wrote:

fan from afar wrote:I did some checking - Notre Dame has two losses, including one to UCLA. Stanford has two ties, against BC and UNC. UNC also has a loss to Va. It seems like that should make Stanford number one, unless I am missing something, with us having a reasonable chance to be in the top 4, maybe even number 2 (right now). Does that compute?

Notre dame has 1 loss. Here's the records and unadjusted RPI for the top 20. it is VERY close at the top.

The Notre Dame loss to VA was an exhibition game, which does not count. So Notre Dame does have only one loss for the purposes of RPI, playoff seeding, etc.

Thanks, Geezer. It really is close. It looks like we could win out and maybe still end up 5th if everyone else also wins out because of a weaker conference schedule.

The Notre Dame schedule shows a 4-1 loss to Va on 8/13 and a 2-1 loss to UCLA on 9/10. Maybe the 8/13 was considered a scrimmage or pre-season??

eprof answered my question

[quote="fan from afar"]Thanks, Geezer. It really is close. It looks like we could win out and maybe still end up 5th if everyone else also wins out because of a weaker conference schedule.

I'd say if we win out we'll be ahead of Notre Dame, at least, because their conference is much weaker than ours. Their URPI is already dropping like a rock with every conference win, whereas ours would drop slightly. Our ACC and Pac-10 rivals will raise their URPIs as long as they win out—but then, they are less likely to win out, as Boston College showed today.

Someone recently pointed out that the WCC is actually about tied with the Pac-10 in head-to-head wins. However, the WCC is well below the Pac-10 in total nonconference play.

Curiously, our URPI rose by .001 since Geezaldinho posted the chart, putting us in a tie with Stanford at this moment in time, and actually listed above Stanford on the basis, I would guess, of Element 1. But that will have no significance.