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School Soccer Chaos: Week 8 Offers Massive Upsets and Rivalry Thrillers
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School Soccer Chaos: Week 8 Offers Massive Upsets and Rivalry Thrillers

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Last updated: October 19, 2025 6:29 pm
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School soccer isn’t with out its issues: astronomic coaching-contract buyouts, largely unregulated free company, an unsatisfying nationwide championship course of.

And a single October weekend is typically all it takes to overshadow all these looming uncertainties.

Oct. 18, 2025 was a kind of particular faculty soccer Saturdays that comes alongside each few years and packs all that we love in regards to the sport right into a single day. Properly, into a pair days.

A chaotic Saturday actually started with Louisville’s 24-21 upset of No. 2 Miami on Friday, setting a tone for a Week 8 with 9 Prime 25-ranked groups falling. 4 misplaced to unranked opponents, together with No. 7 Texas Tech — rolling by means of the primary six video games of its schedule — dropping a 26-22 determination at Arizona State with simply 34 seconds remaining.

The reigning Massive 12 Convention champion Solar Devils’ prospects of a School Soccer Playoff return appeared cooked only a week in the past after a 42-10 blowout loss at Utah. Possibly Arizona State is not any nearer to this season’s Playoff than it was after the Week 7 setback, however the Solar Devils demonstrated that each Saturday is its personal story.

“It’s important to self-correct if you notice possibly you’ve miscalculated and steered one thing within the fallacious course,” Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham mentioned. “It could be you’re 5 levels, seven levels off. Good applications, they don’t flip left or proper; they only flip just a little bit.”

As coaches get fired earlier each within the season and earlier into their contracts, the room for these slight course-corrections to which Dillingham alluded aren’t all the time there.

The dramatic flip of firing a head coach is hardly a cure-all; slicing bait with James Franklin after a 3-3 begin and paying him a staggering $50 million buyout didn’t save the Nittany Lions from a fourth straight loss with a 25-24 ultimate at Iowa.

On that word, LSU would owe Brian Kelly a reported $53.3 million if it fired the coach; the subject of Kelly’s buyout was a prime Google search end result minutes after the Tigers’ 31-24 loss at Vanderbilt.

Altering course hardly ensures LSU, or every other program making a midseason change, a fast repair. However for UAB, its first sport again since Trent Dilfer’s dismissal underscored simply how disastrous the Dilfer rent was.

Week 8 marked a throwback to the Invoice Clark period when UAB was constantly among the best tales within the sport. Underneath interim coach Alex Mortensen, and with first-time beginning quarterback Ryder Burton controlling the offense, the Blazers shook up the Playoff race with a 31-24 win over unbeaten and No. 22-ranked Memphis.

Burton’s journey from BYU to West Virginia to UAB provides a reminder that not each, nor even a lot of the transfers round faculty soccer are breakout gamers leaving the applications that gave them a possibility for greater NIL paydays and brighter spotlights.

In loads of circumstances, the switch portal gives the chance a participant didn’t see elsewhere.

“I’ve been at three faculties in three years, and it’s powerful if you’re not enjoying the sport you’re keen on,” mentioned Burton after his 251-yard, three-touchdown efficiency. “However I’ve ready like I’m the starter for 3 years, and I believe tonight [paid] dividends.”

UAB’s win is made all of the extra reflective of school soccer’s spirit with the Blazers taking residence a novel rivalry trophy. They’ll personal the 100-pound, bronze rack of ribs awarded to the winner within the Battle of the Bones.

From child again ribs to the Jeweled Shillelagh — which Notre Dame stored with its 34-24 defeat of Southern California — a wild Week 8 topped champions. The Playoff isn’t the one place in faculty soccer the place a winner takes residence a trophy, and its many rivalry video games contribute to the game’s magic that retains us coming again.

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