It is a busy week in the dual meet world. Highlighting the list of meets this week is the tri-meet between Cal, Stanford, and Arizona State.
Stanford will host the meet on Friday before Cal is the host to the meet on Saturday. In SwimSwam’s power rankings on the women’s side, Stanford sits at #2, Cal sits at #4, and the Arizona State women were an honorable mention team receiving votes from six out of eight writers.
Also highlighting the list of meets this week is the SEC showdown between Texas and Tennessee. The Texas women sit at #3 and Tennessee sits at #6. Both the men and women from Texas won the 2025 SEC Championship while Tennessee finished 3rd on both the men’s and women’s sides as well. There will be autographs before the meet begins on Friday night featuring some of the 2024 Paris Olympians, although some are expected to be competing this weekend at the final World Cup stop in Toronto.
Virginia will unveil its 2025 Women’s NCAA Championship banner on Friday with its dual meet against UNC. The program has already stated on Instagram that the banner is orange, contrasting the previous four banners which are two white and two blue.
SwimSwam’s Power Rankings (Women) (Men Coming Soon)
Note: Many members of the SwimSwam staff have searched websites to compile this list. Not all schools have schedules posted yet (still waiting on ~5 schools) and meets are occasionally added/removed after this list is compiled. Some schools also have conflicting data ie, one school posts the meet being X date while the other posts Y date.
| Meet | Date | Men | Women |
| St Louis v. McKendree | 10/24-25 | Yes | Yes |
| St. Bonaventure v. Cleveland St | 10/24-25 | Yes | Yes |
| UMASS v. Yale | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| URI Alumni Meet | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Bucknell Invite (Bucknell, Seton Hall, Binghamton) | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| UNH v. CCSU | 10/24-25 | Yes | |
| ECU v NC State | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Tulane v. North Texas | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Iowa State v. South Dakota State | 10/23 | Yes | |
| Iowa State v. South Dakota | 10/24 | Yes | |
| Davidson v. VMI | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Georgia Tech Alumni Meet | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| World Cup Stop #3 | 10/23-25 | Yes | Yes |
| UNC v. Virginia | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Indiana v. Kentucky | 10/22 | Yes | Yes |
| Northwestern v. Notre Dame | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Northwestern v. Michigan vs UCLA | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| LSU vs Kentucky | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| SMU vs Texas A&M | 10/24-25 | Yes | Yes |
| Rutgers vs Miami FL vs Arkansas | 10/24-25 | Yes | |
| All Florida Invite (Florida St, North Florida, | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Arizona State at Stanford vs Cal (Tri-Meet) | 10/24-25 | Yes | Yes |
| Virginia Tech vs Duke | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Illinois vs Southern Illinois vs Illinois State | 10/24-25 | Yes | |
| Xavier at Northern Kentucky | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Xavier at Denison | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Georgetown vs Villanova | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Iona vs Providence | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| NJIT vs Stony Brook vs Bryant | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Lehigh vs Colgate | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Lafayette vs Colgate | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Holy Cross at Iona | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Thomas Murphy Invite (Loyola MD, Mount St Marys, Towson, UMBC) | 10/24-26 | Yes | Yes |
| Canisius vs Geneseo | 10/24 | Yes | Yes |
| Fairfield vs Marist | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Niagara vs Le Moyne | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| IU Indy vs UIC | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Fresno State vs Cal State East Bay | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Nevada vs UC Davis | 10/25 | Yes | |
| San Jose State at Pacific vs UC Santa Cruz | 10/25 | Yes | |
| North Florida vs Georgia Southern (swim only) | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Liberty at Campbell | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Toledo vs Ball State | 10/25 | Yes | |
| Buffalo at Ohio vs Marshall | 10/24-25 | Yes | |
| Eastern Illinois at Oliver Nazarene | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Evansville vs Indiana state vs Southern Indiana | 10/25 | yes | Yes |
| St. Thomas v. Florida Tech/Indian River | 10/24 | yes | yes |
| Danver at Colorado State/Colorado Mesa | 10/24 | yes | |
| California Baptist v Pomona-Pitzer | 10/25 | Yes | yes |
| NM State v. Northern Colorado | 10/25 | yes | |
| Rice Fall Splash (UTRGV, UIW, Little Rock, St Thomas, Loyola) | 10/24-25 | TBD | yes |
| San Diego vs Pomona-Pitzer vs Cal Baptist | 10/25 | Yes | Yes |
| Northeastern v. MIT/Harvard | 10/24 | yes | yes |
| Ball State vs UIC | 10/24 | yes | |
| Sacred Heart vs Merrimack vs Stonehill | 10/26 | yes | |
| St Francis vs LIU vs Manhattan | 10/25 | yes | yes |
| Incarnate Word vs Southwestern | 10/24 | yes | yes |
| Penn State at Pitt | 10/24-25 | yes | yes |
| Texas vs Tennessee | 10/24 | yes | yes |
| Pepperdine at Seattle | 10/24-25 | yes | |
| GCU v Hawaii | 10/24-25 | yes | yes |
| Seattle U v. Puget Sound | 10/24-25 | yes | yes |
| Utah at Wyoming | 10/24 | yes | yes |
| Monmouth vs TCNJ | 10/25 | yes | yes |
Blew it off! Fly to Toronto, Ont on Wednesday afternoon instead.
The Pac 12 is alive and well in college Swimming.
Bull Puoy’s Picks – Week of 10/20-10/26
Each winner’s pick includes a designation as follows:
+1: Defeats by <25% over the other team’s score
+2: Defeats by 25-49% over the other team’s score
+3: Defeats by 50+% over the other team’s score – This is a good guardrail because beyond this, a winning team may start going exhibition
Women
STAN (+1) over Cal
STAN (+3) over AZ St
Cal (+3) over AZ St
UVA (+3) over UNC
Duke (+3) over VT
Texas (+1) over TN
Michigan (+3) over UCLA
LSU (+2) over KY
Men
STAN (+2) over Cal… Read more »
AZ St (+3) over STAN
AZ St (+3) over Cal
UNC will get a 32 point lead due to diving over UVA. Their men’s team is pretty good and should make the meet closer than expected, especially with the diving lead.