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
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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:
|
RANK |
SCHOOL |
POINTS |
W-L-T |
FINAL 2018 RANKING |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maryland (13) | 637 | 13-6-4 | 1 |
| 2 | Indiana (6) | 623 | 20-3-1 | 3 |
| 3 | Akron (2) | 621 | 15-7-2 | 2 |
| 4 | Wake Forest (4) | 607 | 18-3-0 | 6 |
| 5 | Stanford University | 545 | 12-4-5 | 7 |
| 6 | North Carolina (2) | 499 | 14-4-1 | 14 |
| 7 | Michigan State | 492 | 14-5-4 | 4 |
| 8 | Kentucky | 467 | 19-2-1 | 5 |
| 9 | Notre Dame | 431 | 11-7-3 | 8 |
| 10 | Duke | 412 | 11-7-2 | 11 |
| 11 | Saint Mary's | 407 | 18-0-2 | 9 |
| 12 | Virginia | 390 | 10-4-3 | 15 |
| 13 | Georgetown | 379 | 13-5-3 | 13 |
| 14 | Louisville | 268 | 11-5-3 | 16 |
| 15 | UCF | 257 | 13-3-3 | 18 |
| 16 | Virginia Tech | 217 | 11-7-3 | 17 |
| 17 | James Madison | 216 | 15-5-3 | 10 |
| 18 | Denver | 180 | 15-4-2 | 19 |
| 19 | Air Force | 178 | 17-5-0 | 12 |
| 20 | Portland | 126 | 12-4-3 | 21 |
| 21 | Charlotte | 119 | 14-5-2 | 20 |
| 22 | Oregon State | 107 | 11-6-3 | 23 |
| 23 | West Virginia | 92 | 14-7-0 | 22 |
| 24 | Michigan | 90 | 12-5-4 | 24 |
| 25 | UC Irvine | 63 | 11-6-4 | RV |
