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I saw in paper that services may cancel games because of government shut down. Both Navy and
Army cancelled their games today. Not good for Patriot league.

gnarly wrote:I saw in paper that services may cancel games because of government shut down.  Both Navy and
Army cancelled their games today.   Not good for Patriot league.

In a measure of how much the academies value women's soccer, they announced that the Army-Air Force Football game is a go for Saturday, government shutdown or no.

two important scores for us tonight.

Wake ties Notre Dame 1-1. they traded goals within a minute.
Marquette beat St. Johns 3-1 after being down 1-0.

Friday scores:

BYU is up on Baylor 1-0 at the half. score on a free kick from Cloee.
the Dawgs beat USC 1-0

Cal stays undefeated 2-1 over the Sun Devils.

BYU over Baylor 2-1

some other scores for tonight:

Mizzou and Vandy tie 1-1  shots were 35-20 ... No D?
SDSU 3 , Col St. 0 SDSU lead in shots 34-2
Utah 1, Oregon 0
Fresno St. 3, Nevada 1
Portland St 2 Eastern Wash 0
Boise St. 2, Wyoming 1
Stanford 2, Arizona 1  Uhl scored 8 seconds from the end of overtime.

Great to see the women's program revived and kicking, and it's nice to see Santa Clara's program representing well for the WCC again this year too!

Santa Clara IS DEFINITELY repping the WCC...they have only three losses...to Stanford, North Carolina, and number one Virginia. When we play them November 7, our game should represent a high RPI for either of the two teams. One other thing of note...Jerry Smith's teams have given him 400 wins now.

HUGE results today. penn State, Notre Dame, and Stanford just lost.


In fact, most of our opponents lost today, which didn't doo us much good. we dropped to #31

Marquette is plugging along to #11, though. We were near there at the start of the weekend.

Not a good weekend for our opponents: UO lost twice, CMU lost twice, Wyo lost twice. MQ won twice. Stanford split, NV split, WF tied ND, Mizz tied one and lost one, SD St won one game, UW won once.

UW tied UCLA in LA ! (0-0)

the PAC12 is busted open, and we have a common opponent advantage.

Is the ACC that much better than the rest of the nation?
5 teams in the top ten.
8 in the top 22.

Is BC (22) that much better than UP (31)?

No doubt VA and UC are worthy of 1 and 3, but the rest?

I wouldn't pay too much attention to the RPI yet, it isn't designed to do a good job ranking teams at this time of year. What you're seeing in the Pilots ranking is a weak strength of schedule, which often gets exaggerated at this stage of the season -- although it is a problem and will be probably at the end of the season.

For current rankings, I'd go to either Massey or Bennett, each of whose rankings are designed for current use:

http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?s=csocw2013&sub=11590

http://bennettranking.com/women/d1

Massey has the Pilots ahead of BC; Bennett has BC ahead.

Also, ranking differences like you're looking at aren't enough to be reliable. The best that statistical ranking systems can do is tell you that a group of teams within a ranking range are roughly equal.

Thanks.
I have been looking at Bennet, and soccertimes and espn and topdrawer, but had not seen Massey.

Dan No Yell, To answer your questions; Yes, Maybe and Probably.

As a whole, the ACC is by far the top conference in the nation this year based on results. From the ACC games I've seen this year, the top 8 in their conference are capable of giving any of their opponents a game on any given day. NC, VA and FSU look like top 5 teams. While I haven't seen VA play, the speed that NC and FSU are playing at is pretty amazing.

Re: BC vs. UP, it's hard to say. it would be a good game to watch. Looking at schedules, BC's played a harder schedule, especially when you factor in the conference schedule. Coupled with a win over WF, that probably also plays a role in the ranking.

Looking at the other conferences, there aren't a lot of teams that are standing out IMHO. Stanford and UCLA on the west coast are probably a cut above with Cal & UP knocking on the door. I'm still a little surprised BYU and SC are ranked as high as they are. I'm not sold on Denver, but they did knock off BYU in Provo.

keeper wrote: I'm not sold on Denver, but they did knock off BYU in Provo.  

Well, the thicker air may have been an advantage for Denver.

Since they played the one in Provo, I'm thinking it must have been like high altitude training. :-)

UCLA vs Stanford on the Pac12 network tonight at 7:30.

UVA _ ND 1-1 at the half

http://www.theacc.com/#!/GameCenter/520bab06e4b050e1bd232bbe

Irish started the game with Cari Roccaro at forward and were overwhelmed on defense. UVA scored first.

They moved her to Dmid and the score is now 2-2

final UVA3:2 ND

acore in the 101st minute. no idea how. the video timed out early in the first OT

Stanford and UCLA. 0-0 at half.

Stanford scores with 1:24 left in the game to tie it up. Headed for OT.

After being totally dominated by UCLA for 88 minutes the late goal seems to have energized Stanford. They controlled the first Ot. They didn't score but came close on at least 3 shots.on to the second OT.

UCLA pulls it out 2-1. Stanford loses 2 in a row at home for the first time in a long time.