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The collegiate cross country season shifts into another gear this weekend with more than two-thirds of the nationally ranked teams in action!
Many of them are at Notre Dame or Washington on Friday, or Louisville or Princeton on Saturday - and you can follow along LIVE with all of them on the USTFCCCA National Results Wall!


NEW ORLEANS - Welcome to October, and welcome to the heart of the NCAA Division I cross country regular season.
From this week's National Coaches' Polls, 22 of the top 30 men's teams and 23 of the 30 women's teams are in action either Friday or Saturday, with another combined 18 national-vote-receiving teams also looking to position themselves for at-large qualifying.
Much of those teams are concentrated around four meets - all four of which can be followed LIVE on the USTFCCCA National Results Wall:

Greater Louisville Classic (Saturday)
Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational (Friday)
Washington Invitational (Friday)
Princeton Inter-Regional Meet (Saturday)

We've broken down each of those meets in detail below (or you can click the links above).
Some more action going on this weekend:

The No. 1 Colorado men and No. 2 women debut their "A" teams at the Colorado Rocky Mountain Shootout on Saturday.
The No. 7 Villanova men and No. 9 Georgetown women headline the Lehigh Paul Short Run on Friday.
The No. 10 Arkansas women and No. 15 Arkansas men host their Chile Pepper Festival on Saturday.

Check out the full weekend schedule here.

Saturday, October 3
9:30am ET – Men’s Gold 8K | 10:15am ET – Women’s Gold 5K
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Nationally Ranked Teams


Men
Women


#4 Wisconsin
#6 Iowa State


#8 Iona
#8 Michigan


#10 Michigan
#11 Wisconsin


#13 Mississippi
#13 West Virginia


#28 Eastern Kentucky
#19 Penn State


(RV) Kentucky
#23 Minnesota


(RV) Louisville
(RV) Lipscomb


(RV) Minnesota
 


(RV) Penn State
 




Annually a pretty competitive meet, the Greater Louisville Classic takes on some extra prestige this year as a de facto “Pre-Pre-National Invitational” – held on the same E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park course as NCAAs on November 21 and the Pre-National Invitational on October 17.
Both the men’s and women’s races this weekend will give us a look at a handful of squads hoping to compete for top-four podium honors the weekend before Thanksgiving, as well as a number of individuals hoping to crack All-America honors or beyond.
Men’s Race
Three top-10 squads from the latest National Coaches’ Polls headline the men’s field in Big Ten rivals No. 4 Wisconsin and No. 10 Michigan, as well as No. 8 Iona. Another team potentially on the cusp of joining the top-10 after this weekend is No. 13 Ole Miss.
We’ve seen both the Badgers and Wolverines in various stages of action this year already, but not during the countable season that started just last weekend. Wisconsin packed up for victories both at its home invitational and at Iona in mid-September, while U of M impressed in early season wins at Penn State and Eastern Michigan. Both squads are expected to open things up a bit more this weekend, and both squads should be running with most, if not all, of their respective “A” teams – led by top-15 NCAA finishers Malachy Schrobilgen and Mason Ferlic, respectively.
While we’ve at least seen most of the major players for those Big Ten rivals, quite the opposite is true for Iona and Ole Miss. This weekend should mark the debuts of Iona’s top runners in Kieran Clements,