Here is the Soccer America Men’sTop 20, taking into account games played through September 19:
| Rank/Team | Record | Last Week |
| 1. Maryland | 5-1-0 | 1 |
| 2. Penn State | 6-0-0 | 2 |
| 3. Indiana | 4-2-0 | 4 |
| 4. UCLA | 5-1-0 | 5 |
| 5. Santa Clara | 6-0-0 | 8 |
| 6. Cal State Fullerton | 6-0-0 | 9 |
| 7. Creighton | 3-0-1 | 7 |
| 8. Saint Louis | 5-1-1 | 10 |
| 9. SMU | 4-1-0 | 3 |
| 10. St. John’s | 3-0-3 | 6 |
| 11. Yale | 4-0-0 | 12 |
| 12. Brown | 3-1-0 | 13 |
| 13. Duke | 3-0-2 | 11 |
| 14. Jacksonville | 5-0-0 | 14 |
| 15. Furman | 5-0-0 | 15 |
| 16. San Diego | 6-0-0 | NR |
| 17. Virginia | 3-2-1 | 17 |
| 18. North Carolina | 5-1-0 | NR |
| 19. Stanford | 2-1-1 | 19 |
| 20. Connecticut | 3-2-0 | 20 |