Here is the Soccer America Men’s Top 20, taking into account games played through Nov. 1:
| Rank/Team | Record | Last Week |
| 1. UCLA | 13-2-0 | 3 |
| 2. Clemson | 17-1-0 | 2 |
| 3. Indiana | 16-2-0 | 1 |
| 4. Virginia | 12-2-2 | 5 |
| 5. Duke | 15-2-0 | 6 |
| 6. Creighton | 12-2-1 | 7 |
| 7. Washington | 14-2-0 | 9 |
| 8. Stanford | 13-4-0 | 11 |
| 9. South Carolina | 13-4-0 | 4 |
| 10. Saint Louis | 14-3-1 | 12 |
| 11. St. John’s | 11-4-3 | 10 |
| 12. Connecticut | 16-2-0 | 8 |
| 13. Furman | 14-3-2 | 14 |
| 14. Cal State Fullerton | 12-4-1 | 15 |
| 15. SMU | 12-3-1 | 17 |
| 16. North Carolina | 11-4-2 | nr |
| 17. Brown | 11-2-1 | nr |
| 18. Akron | 14-2-1 | nr |
| 19. Seton Hall | 10-3-4 | 18 |
| 20. Maryland | 11-6-0 | 20 |