The following is Soccer America Magazine’s Men’s Top 20 covering games through Sept. 17.
| Rank/Team | Record | Last Week | |
| 1. | UCLA | 4-0-0 | 1 |
| 2 | Connecticut | 4-1-0 | 2 |
| 3. | Portland | 4-0-1 | 3 |
| 4. | Penn State | 6-0-0 | 4 |
| 5. | St. JohnÆs | 5-1-0 | 7 |
| 6. | Duke | 4-2-0 | 8 |
| 7. | Stanford | 4-0-0 | 9 |
| 8. | Virginia | 4-2-0 | 11 |
| 9. | Cal State Fullerton | 6-0-0 | 13 |
| 10. | North Carolina | 6-1-0 | 15 |
| 11. | Creighton | 5-0-0 | 19 |
| 12. | South Carolina | 5-1-0 | 18 |
| 13. | Brown | 3-0-1 | 17 |
| 14. | Furman | 5-1-0 | 6 |
| 15. | SMU | 4-2-0 | NR |
| 16. | Clemson | 3-2-0 | 10 |
| 17. | Pittsburgh | 5-0-0 | 20 |
| 18. | Southwest Missouri State | 5-1-0 | 12 |
| 19. | Indiana | 4-3-0 | 14 |
| 20. | Wake Forest | 2-3-0 | 5 |