SAN LUIS OBISPO \u2013 The Cal Poly men\u2019s soccer program seeks a second successive Big West regular season title when completing its nine-game conference stretch Saturday, Nov. 1 at Cal State Bakersfield. Kickoff is 7 p.m. for Cal Poly (7-5-5, 4-2-2), which improved to 14 points in the Big West table with a 1-0 home win versus CSUN (Oct. 26) as the Mustangs enter the final day two points behind co-leaders Cal State Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara. A Cal Poly victory, coupled with Saturday defeats or draws by both Cal State Fullerton (hosting UC San Diego) and UC Santa Barbara (visiting CSUN), hands Cal Poly at least a share of the Big West regular season title. Fifth-place Cal State Bakersfield (3-10-3, 3-3-2), meanwhile, qualifies for the six-team, Nov. 5, 8 and 14 Big West Championship with just a draw Saturday. After leading the Big West standings on Oct. 15, the Roadrunners have dropped three straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DOWN TO THE WIRE: Entering the final day of Big West play, Cal Poly can finish as high as the No. 1 seed for the Big West Championship \u2013 and a bye to the conference championship semifinals \u2013 or drop as low as fifth and go on the road for an opening-round matchup. With none of the four teams atop the standings facing each other on the final day, a possibility exists for a four-team tie for the regular season title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CAL POLY VERSUS CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD:\u00a0Cal Poly has won six of its last seven matches against Cal State Bakersfield with a 1-0 home victory in 2024 handing the Mustangs the Big West regular season title and a 1-1 draw in 2023 clinching a conference championship position. Cal Poly leads the Division I series, 7-1-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL FOOTBALL: After scoring 19 times in 19 matches last fall, Cal Poly has found the back of the opposition net 26 times in 2025 to rank 47th among 210 NCAA Division I programs. Thirteen different Mustangs have scored through the initial 17 games with senior midfielder Bakuena Ramakatsa, junior forward Jack Civitts, sophomore forward Finn Linas and freshman defender Tanner Casey producing their first goals as Mustangs. With freshman defender Michael Vick ranked second in the Big West and 74th among NCAA Division I players with five assists and Civitts on four assists, 10 separate Mustangs have registered at least one assist this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO \u2013 The Cal Poly men\u2019s soccer program seeks a second successive Big West regular season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-30981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}