A pair of weekend wins served to keep the Akron Zips on the top of this week’s TopDrawerSoccer.com Men’s Tournament 48 National Ranking.

Caleb Porter’s Zips remained perfect after defeating Cincinnati and Cal State Northridge(m) on the weekend. Akron is 5-0 and has yet to surrender a goal this season. Tulsa remained #2 in the ranking, while Ohio State dropped out of the top 10 following a pair of setbacks.

The Men’s Tournament 48 National Ranking is a running effort to project the 48-team NCAA Tournament field, including all automatic conference and at-large bids to the field. It is updated every Monday through the season. You can see the entire ranking here.

Meanwhile, Penn State’s Corey Hertzog was named TopDrawerSoccer.com Player of the Week based on his performance this week for the Nittany Lions. With the honor, Hertzog headlines this week’s TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week.

The full TopDrawerSoccer.com Men's Team of the Week for Monday Sept. 13 through Sunday Sept. 19 is as follows.

GK: Josh Ford, Connecticut
D: Perry Kitchen, Akron
D: Zarek Valentin, Akron
D: Chad Barson, Akron
M: Patrick Mullins, Maryland
M: Adam Himeno, St. John’s(m)
M: Cyrus Saydee, Michigan State
M: Etienne Boulanger, UNC Wilmington
M: Ryan Kinne, Monmouth
F: Bernardo Anor, South Florida
F: Corey Hertzog, Penn State

Player of the Week: Corey Hertzog, Penn State

The TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week is chosen after consulting match reports from all DI matches played in the preceding week.