Week 10 of school soccer was as chaotic as ever.
Huge upsets, performs and personalities abounded, and Friday’s Halloween actions added a fair spookier aptitude to the often-dramatic proceedings. And with fall heading towards the house stretch, the intrigue on and off the sector didn’t disappoint.
As all the time, we’ll be handing out quite a few nontraditional superlatives to point out some like to a number of the sport’s extra offbeat tales. Right here’s the perfect of the wackiest from Week 10 of the 2025 season.
Although James Madison’s Week 10 recreation got here just a few days earlier than Halloween, Dukes linebacker Gannon Weathersby appeared loads prepared for the vacation along with his face paint for a Tuesday night time conflict with Texas State.
Sport day eye black is a traditional custom in soccer, however it’s usually easy in execution — a line or two of black paint beneath the eyes. Weathersby, nonetheless, turned it into an artwork kind, along with his look together with a number of colours and almost full facial protection. It’s not the primary time Weathersby has gone all out with in-game face paint, however this time round, it definitely suited the Halloween vibes finest.
As followers filed into SMU’s marquee matchup with the No. 10 Miami Hurricanes on Saturday, Gerald J. Ford Stadium’s videoboard operator put up a trivia query for followers to attempt to reply: What’s the title of the Mustangs’ dwelling stadium? Attainable solutions included quite a few former United States presidents, enjoying into the truth that the Gerald Ford the ability is known as for is just not the identical Gerald Ford that served because the thirty eighth president.
There was only one drawback: The videoboard on which the query was displayed sits below an enormous Gerald J. Ford Stadium signal.
Princeton operating again Josh Robinson opened the scoring in his squad’s contest in opposition to Cornell with one of the exceptional hustle performs you’ll see this season.
Taking a pop cross across the edge, Robinson initially gained just a few yards earlier than being engulfed by a Huge Pink defender, who started to swing him to the bottom. There was only one drawback: Robinson didn’t truly go down. Regardless of at one level being virtually perpendicular to the bottom, the freshman broad receiver managed to spin freed from his tackler (in addition to two different defenders in touching distance) and take a roundabout path to the opposite aspect of the sector and, ultimately, the tip zone.
With Texas up large over No. 9 Vanderbilt in an enormous SEC conflict in Austin, Longhorns followers chanted “overrated” at Commodores quarterback Diego Pavia.
Which of the next parts of the earlier assertion would appear probably the most ridiculous to a school soccer fan a decade in the past? Vanderbilt ranked within the prime 10? Texas within the SEC? The idea of a Vanderbilt quarterback being thought-about overrated? What a world.
There was lots of intriguing stuff occurring in Denton, Texas, because the Imply Inexperienced downed Navy in a significant American Convention matchup. You had the North Texas athletic director going topless because the wave of shirtless fan sections continues to brush the nation. You additionally had a play you not often see: an onside kick truthful catch.
Down 14-3 within the first half, the Midshipmen tried to drag a quick one after their first rating of the sport by chipping an onside kick. North Texas broad receiver Baron Tipton had a heads-up answer to the sudden quick kick: calling for a good catch. Navy recovered, however truthful catch interference was known as — and the Imply Inexperienced stored the ball.