When does the 2019 men's college soccer season start?

The first full day of matches for the 2019 DI men's college soccer season is on August 30, highlighted by a must-watch contest between No. 15 UCF and No. 4 Wake Forest. But No. 1 Maryland started one day earlier, beating South Florida, 1-0, on Thursday, Aug. 29. Boston College also played on Thursday, defeating Quinnipiac.

Here are some of the most notable games scheduled for the first weekend.

Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 (all times EST) | Scoreboard

*All rankings obtained from the United Soccer Coaches preseason poll. 

• No. 1 Maryland 1, South Florida 0

Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 (all times EST) | Scoreboard

*All rankings obtained from the United Soccer Coaches preseason poll. 

• No. 15 UCF at No. 4 Wake Forest, 6 p.m. | Winston-Salem, N.C.
• No. 3 Akron at Xavier, 7 p.m. | Cincinnati, Ohio
• No. 5 Stanford at Penn State, 7 p.m. | University Park, Pa.
• No. 25 UC Irvine at No. 11 Saint Mary's, 7 p.m. | Moraga, Calif.
• Creighton at No. 6 North Carolina, 7:30 p.m. | Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Albany at No. 8 Kentucky, 7:30 p.m. | Lexington, Ky.
• Pittsburgh at No. 2 Indiana, 8 p.m. | Bloomington, Ind.

Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 | Scoreboard

• No. 9 Notre Dame at Saint Louis, 8 p.m. | St. Louis, Mo. 

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Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019 | Scoreboard

• No. 15 UCF at No. 6 North Carolina, 7:30 p.m. | Chapel Hill, N.C.
• UCLA at No. 2 Indiana, 8 p.m. | Bloomington, Ind.

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Below is the United Soccer Coaches 2019 preseason poll which was released on Tuesday, Aug. 6: