Today's Division I women's soccer schedule features six games between teams currently ranked in the national top-25 polls. The most noteworthy of those top matchups is an in-state showdown, as Florida State (#6 in the CS360 Composite National Rankings) will play at #9 Florida. There are two other tilts in which both teams are in the top-20 of the CNR: #2 Portland at #18 Texas A&M and #20 Central Florida at #12 South Carolina (in a matchup of two upstart squads). There's a total of 26 games today involving top-25/CNR teams (see sidebar), with four CNR teams being idle today: Virginia, Wake Forest, BYU and Penn State.
Here's the full list of today's top-25 "big games" (rankings based on the CNR):
• #23 San Diego at #28 Kansas (3 CT)
• #6 Florida State at #9 Florida (7 ET)
• #20 Central Florida at #12 South Carolina (7 ET)
• #24 USC at #19 Oklahoma State ST (7 PT)
• #2 Portland at #18 Texas A&M (7 CT)
• #33 Colorado at #3 Stanford (7 PT)
There are two other games of note, each involving one team currently in the national rankings and another that was nationally-ranked earlier in the season:
• #1 North Carolina vs. LSU (@Duke; 5 ET)
• Utah at #5 UCLA (7 PT)
Be sure to follow the CS360 Twitter feed for in-game updates throughout the day.