A pair of top-10 Related Press showdowns highlights a wonderful Week 7 in school soccer.
We break down the weekend’s greatest upcoming matches on this version of the Weekly Syllabus whereas additionally turning a watch towards the fast-approaching 2026-27 school basketball season.
It is the largest residence sport in Indiana soccer historical past.
For the primary time, the Hoosiers will host a top-five showdown when Ohio State visits Bloomington on Saturday in a rematch of final season’s Huge Ten Championship Sport, a 13-10 Indiana win.
In that one, Indiana (6-0, 3-0 in Huge Ten) overwhelmed Ohio State (5-1, 3-0 in Huge Ten) on the line of scrimmage, ending with 9 tackles for loss, together with 5 sacks. With defensive tackles Stephen Daly (5 sacks) and Daniel Ndukwe (4.5 tackles for loss), members of final 12 months’s nationwide championship workforce, and switch defensive finish Tobi Osunsanmi (9.5 tackles for loss, 5 sacks) having glorious seasons and beginning Buckeyes linemen Austin Siereveld and Phillip Daniels coming off Week 6 absences, the Hoosiers might have an identical benefit within the trenches.
However will it even matter? Ohio State large receiver Jeremiah Smith is within the strategy of rewriting each main Huge Ten and Ohio State receiving file. He had over 100 yards in solely three quarters in final 12 months’s Huge Ten title sport and is averaging 152.7 receiving yards per sport this season. Nobody has a solution to cease him, and the main Heisman Trophy candidate may put much more distance between himself and the sector by main the Buckeyes to victory.
Huge 12’s massive weekend
This weekend is a showcase for the Huge 12, which options in two of the weekend’s greatest primetime video games.
ESPN’s “School GameDay” goes on the street to No. 8 BYU (5-0, 3-0 in Huge 12), which hosts No. 2 Notre Dame (6-0). Operating again LJ Martin suffered a lower-body damage earlier this season towards TCU and can miss Saturday’s sport, a serious blow to the Cougars, who might be led by a protection that ranks ninth in FBS in factors allowed (13.4 per sport).
No. 18 Oklahoma State (4-1, 2-0 in Huge 12) and No. 20 Houston (5-1, 2-1 in Huge 12) meet in one in all Saturday’s six video games that includes ranked opponents, and the winner will transfer nearer to the convention’s higher class — together with BYU, No. 10 Texas Tech (5-0, 2-0 in Huge 12) and No. 11 Utah (5-0, 2-0 in Huge 12) — to probably give the Huge 12 as many as 4 reliable playoff contenders on the season’s halfway level.
Stacked SEC slate
Three ranked matchups spotlight one other wealthy SEC slate, however they won’t be essentially the most fascinating video games.
In a midday ET matinee, Florida (4-2, 2-2 in SEC) visits No. 7 Texas (4-1, 1-1 in SEC) with every workforce determined for a win coming off Week 6 losses. The Gators and Longhorns might be particularly motivated contemplating what comes subsequent. Florida performs No. 1 Georgia (6-0, 4-0 in SEC) after a Week 8 bye, whereas Texas follows with 4 consecutive video games towards ranked opponents, together with No. 9 Ole Miss (4-1, 2-1 in SEC) subsequent Saturday.
Later within the day, No. 15 Kentucky (5-1, 3-1 in SEC) and Oklahoma (3-2, 1-1 in SEC) play after every recorded huge upsets every week in the past. The Wildcats shocked a top-10 LSU workforce, 35-34, in additional time, whereas Oklahoma revived its season with a Purple River Rivalry win over then-No. 1 Texas. One will preserve the great instances going.
And that is not all, of us.
Kamario Taylor and No. 16 Mississippi State (4-1, 2-1 in SEC) journey to No. 22 LSU (4-2, 1-2 in SEC) within the early afternoon window, and each wish to keep away from back-to-back losses. No. 6 Alabama (5-1, 3-1 in SEC) performs at No. 14 Tennessee (5-1, 2-1 in SEC), the place it has misplaced two in a row, whereas No. 13 Missouri (5-1, 2-1 in SEC) appears for an announcement street win over Ole Miss.
It is unattainable to take a look at the upcoming SEC schedule and never get excited. Nicely, every part apart from Arkansas–Vanderbilt. However we needn’t discuss that.
Basketball media days in full swing
The SEC’s basketball media days begin Tuesday with protection on ESPN Plus, and forward of the two-day occasion, SEC media named Florida as its males’s preseason No. 1. (h/t CBS Sports)
LSU males’s and girls’s basketball coaches Will Wade and Kim Mulkey are scheduled to talk on Tuesday, and each will probably say one thing to rile up the web. South Carolina girls’s basketball coach Daybreak Staley can even discuss to reporters, whereas Wednesday’s heavy hitters embrace Florida’s Todd Golden, Kentucky males’s basketball coach Mark Pope and Arkansas males’s basketball coach John Calipari.
CBB exhibition video games
A number of groups are gearing up for the beginning of the 2026-27 season on Nov. 2 with exhibition video games this week, together with Houston and the Arizona Wildcats, each top-five squads in KenPom’s preseason rankings.
The week’s most noteworthy preseason sport, nevertheless, is between UCF and LSU, which has a number of roster questions with the common season quick approaching. In final week’s exhibition win over McNeese, Wade used a seven-man rotation, and all 5 starters performed a minimum of 34 minutes.
With some gamers, together with RJ Luis, nonetheless in limbo, it is unclear who might be obtainable towards UCF, to not point out for the common season.
“What we’re doing is unconventional,” Wade informed reporters in September, per CBS Sports. The unorthodox experiment marches on this week.
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