Here is the Soccer America Men’s Top 20, taking into account games played through September 26:
| Rank/Team | Record | Last Week |
| 1. Penn State | 8-0-0 | 2 |
| 2. Indiana | 6-2-0 | 3 |
| 3. UCLA | 6-1-0 | 4 |
| 4. Santa Clara | 8-0-0 | 5 |
| 5. Cal State Fullerton | 7-0-0 | 6 |
| 6. Saint Louis | 6-1-1 | 8 |
| 7. Duke | 5-0-2 | 13 |
| 8. SMU | 6-1-0 | 9 |
| 9. Maryland | 6-2-0 | 1 |
| 10. Connecticut | 5-2-0 | 20 |
| 11. Brown | 4-1-0 | 12 |
| 12. Creighton | 4-1-1 | 7 |
| 13. Virginia | 5-2-1 | 17 |
| 14. Southwest Missouri | 7-0-1 | NR |
| 15. St. John’s | 3-1-3 | 10 |
| 16. Furman | 6-0-1 | 15 |
| 17. Yale | 5-1-0 | 11 |
| 18. California | 6-1-1 | NR |
| 19. Jacksonville | 6-1-0 | 14 |
| 20. North Carolina | 6-2-0 | 18 |