If the RPI was only 50% based on Strength of Schedule

It would still be a terrible methodology, but it would be a lot better than what we have now. Note Kansas falling from 1st to 8th:

Rank School Fixed RPI
1 Kentucky 0.7923
2 Virginia 0.7732
3 Villanova 0.7562
4 Gonzaga 0.7522
5 Wisconsin 0.7498
6 Duke 0.7409
7 Arizona 0.7299
8 Kansas 0.7298
9 Northern Iowa 0.7220
10 Wichita State 0.7080
11 Utah 0.7069
12 Maryland 0.6941
13 Notre Dame 0.6887
14 Southern Methodist 0.6807
15 Arkansas 0.6780
16 Iowa State 0.6760
17 VCU 0.6743
18 Colorado State 0.6736
19 San Diego State 0.6681
20 Louisville 0.6655
21 Dayton 0.6645
22 West Virginia 0.6609
23 Valparaiso 0.6590
24 Baylor 0.6573
25 Murray State 0.6539
26 Butler 0.6527
27 North Carolina 0.6502
28 Stephen F. Austin 0.6467
29 Iona 0.6456
30 Oklahoma 0.6445
31 Providence 0.6444
32 Wofford 0.6421
33 UC Davis 0.6398
34 Green Bay 0.6395
35 Georgetown 0.6371
36 St. Mary’s 0.6371
37 Ohio State 0.6346
38 Tulsa 0.6345
39 Harvard 0.6337
40 Old Dominion 0.6326
41 Temple 0.6316
42 Texas A&M 0.6312
43 Louisiana Tech 0.6308
44 Davidson 0.6280
45 Boise State 0.6270
46 Central Michigan 0.6253
47 Michigan State 0.6251
48 Rhode Island 0.6242
49 Ole Miss 0.6238
50 Wyoming 0.6222
51 Sam Houston State 0.6214
52 Eastern Washington 0.6191
53 Texas-El Paso 0.6166
54 Brigham Young 0.6153
55 Indiana 0.6142
56 Oklahoma State 0.6139
57 LSU 0.6131
58 Bowling Green 0.6130
59 Yale 0.6111
60 Oregon 0.6109
61 Texas 0.6107
62 Illinois 0.6039
63 Xavier 0.6035
64 Purdue 0.6025
65 Cincinnati 0.6012
66 Georgia 0.6004
67 St. John’s 0.5999
68 North Carolina Central 0.5997
69 High Point 0.5996
70 Stanford 0.5964
71 Syracuse 0.5954
72 Georgia State 0.5952
73 Buffalo 0.5951
74 Miami (Fla.) 0.5947
75 South Dakota State 0.5938
76 Massachusetts 0.5935
77 Florida Gulf Coast 0.5916
78 Toledo 0.5912
79 Kent State 0.5909
80 Pittsburgh 0.5891
81 Georgia Southern 0.5858
82 Iowa 0.5853
83 UCLA 0.5834
84 Evansville 0.5829
85 George Washington 0.5827
86 Rider 0.5800
87 Albany 0.5796
88 North Carolina State 0.5777
89 North Dakota State 0.5748
90 Northeastern 0.5746
91 Alabama 0.5745
92 Akron 0.5715
93 Memphis 0.5693
94 California 0.5691
95 Chattanooga 0.5682
96 Louisiana-Monroe 0.5678
97 Coastal Carolina 0.5676
98 Seton Hall 0.5658
99 La Salle 0.5642
100 Oregon State 0.5618
101 Sacramento State 0.5617
102 Stony Brook 0.5574
103 Radford 0.5567
104 Clemson 0.5566
105 Illinois State 0.5563
106 Western Kentucky 0.5556
107 Tennessee 0.5533
108 St. Francis (N.Y.) 0.5530
109 New Mexico State 0.5523
110 TCU 0.5522
111 Connecticut 0.5520
112 Minnesota 0.5517
113 William & Mary 0.5510
114 Western Michigan 0.5488
115 Hofstra 0.5474
116 Belmont 0.5471
117 UT Martin 0.5461
118 Washington 0.5457
119 Penn State 0.5449
120 Arizona State 0.5448
121 Richmond 0.5446
122 James Madison 0.5440
123 UC Irvine 0.5439
124 Incarnate Word 0.5420
125 Charleston Southern 0.5412
126 Pepperdine 0.5406
127 Portland 0.5395
128 Florida State 0.5388
129 Florida 0.5379
130 South Carolina Upstate 0.5369
131 Texas-Arlington 0.5366
132 Hawaii 0.5357
133 Eastern Kentucky 0.5352
134 Loyola-Chicago 0.5347
135 Utah State 0.5321
136 South Carolina 0.5318
137 Cleveland State 0.5311
138 Lehigh 0.5295
139 E. Tennessee State 0.5292
140 UNLV 0.5285
141 Vanderbilt 0.5273
142 Bucknell 0.5261
143 Lafayette 0.5260
144 NC-Wilmington 0.5251
145 St. Bonaventure 0.5242
146 Michigan 0.5229
147 New Mexico 0.5228
148 Nebraska 0.5209
149 Montana 0.5196
150 Norfolk State 0.5179
151 Kansas State 0.5174
152 Monmouth 0.5165
153 American 0.5165
154 Eastern Michigan 0.5161
155 New Hampshire 0.5158
156 Alabama State 0.5157
157 Canisius 0.5147
158 Vermont 0.5134
159 Texas Southern 0.5132
160 Colorado 0.5129
161 North Florida 0.5128
162 New Jersey Tech 0.5120
163 Tulane 0.5107
164 Georgia Tech 0.5099
165 Santa Barbara 0.5076
166 Cal Poly 0.5054
167 UAB 0.5030
168 Oral Roberts 0.5030
169 Gardner-Webb 0.5027
170 Quinnipiac 0.5024
171 Eastern Illinois 0.5022
172 Northwestern 0.5014
173 Oakland 0.5010
174 Mount St. Mary’s 0.5009
175 IPFW 0.5008
176 Long Beach State 0.4996
177 Maryland-Eastern Shore 0.4985
178 Wake Forest 0.4975
179 Northern Arizona 0.4961
180 Bryant University 0.4961
181 St. Francis (Pa.) 0.4951
182 Middle Tennessee 0.4949
183 Creighton 0.4942
184 Washington State 0.4937
185 San Diego 0.4931
186 Northwestern State 0.4928
187 Manhattan 0.4927
188 Winthrop 0.4915
189 Marquette 0.4911
190 DePaul 0.4907
191 Grand Canyon 0.4897
192 UL Lafayette 0.4894
193 Auburn 0.4887
194 Indiana State 0.4860
195 Columbia 0.4849
196 Army 0.4831
197 Texas Tech 0.4829
198 Texas-San Antonio 0.4821
199 Saint Joseph’s 0.4816
200 Mercer 0.4813
201 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 0.4812
202 Portland State 0.4796
203 Robert Morris 0.4795
204 Cornell 0.4788
205 Boston University 0.4762
206 UCF 0.4751
207 Mississippi State 0.4748
208 California Riverside 0.4746
209 Florida International 0.4741
210 Colgate 0.4739
211 South Dakota 0.4694
212 Charlotte 0.4670
213 Rutgers 0.4664
214 LIU-Brooklyn 0.4654
215 Hartford 0.4647
216 St. Peter’s 0.4645
217 Western Carolina 0.4630
218 Holy Cross 0.4617
219 Southern California 0.4597
220 Fresno State 0.4572
221 Boston College 0.4571
222 Princeton 0.4560
223 North Texas 0.4555
224 Sacred Heart 0.4551
225 San Francisco 0.4531
226 Air Force 0.4521
227 Dartmouth 0.4516
228 NC-Asheville 0.4509
229 Lamar 0.4492
230 Delaware State 0.4474
231 Northern Colorado 0.4469
232 Idaho 0.4466
233 Northern Illinois 0.4450
234 Santa Clara 0.4446
235 Virginia Tech 0.4438
236 Drexel 0.4427
237 Brown 0.4421
238 Ohio 0.4415
239 Howard 0.4413
240 UMass Lowell 0.4412
241 Southern 0.4408
242 Morehead State 0.4401
243 Detroit 0.4393
244 East Carolina 0.4365
245 Towson 0.4363
246 Loyola-Maryland 0.4357
247 Wright State 0.4351
248 Hampton 0.4345
249 Saint Louis 0.4313
250 Siena 0.4305
251 Southeast Missouri State 0.4291
252 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 0.4288
253 Weber State 0.4284
254 Texas State-San Marcos 0.4278
255 Denver 0.4275
256 Missouri State 0.4257
257 Seattle 0.4257
258 Tennessee Tech 0.4257
259 Samford 0.4246
260 Northern Kentucky 0.4232
261 Arkansas-Little Rock 0.4227
262 SIU-Edwardsville 0.4205
263 IUPUI 0.4202
264 Houston 0.4195
265 Miami (Ohio) 0.4189
266 Appalachian State 0.4188
267 Navy 0.4131
268 Fordham 0.4125
269 George Mason 0.4119
270 Arkansas State 0.4111
271 Pennsylvania 0.4096
272 Houston Baptist 0.4067
273 Pacific 0.4065
274 Missouri 0.4063
275 UMKC 0.4059
276 Drake 0.4048
277 Duquesne 0.4047
278 Youngstown State 0.4033
279 Southern Illinois 0.4012
280 Prairie View A&M 0.4010
281 Delaware 0.4010
282 VMI 0.4005
283 Elon 0.4004
284 Loyola Marymount 0.4000
285 Cal State Bakersfield 0.3996
286 Rice 0.3985
287 Troy 0.3984
288 South Florida 0.3981
289 Jacksonville State 0.3973
290 Lipscomb 0.3956
291 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 0.3908
292 McNeese State 0.3903
293 Utah Valley 0.3878
294 South Carolina State 0.3877
295 Ball State 0.3874
296 Wagner 0.3867
297 Southeastern Louisiana 0.3860
298 Marshall 0.3822
299 Cal State Fullerton 0.3818
300 Florida Atlantic 0.3789
301 North Dakota 0.3787
302 South Alabama 0.3774
303 College of Charleston 0.3762
304 Bradley 0.3734
305 Jackson State 0.3731
306 Nebraska Omaha 0.3718
307 Nevada 0.3707
308 Abilene Christian 0.3670
309 The Citadel 0.3652
310 Kennesaw State 0.3645
311 Alabama A&M 0.3629
312 Western Illinois 0.3622
313 Fairfield 0.3607
314 Fairleigh Dickinson 0.3583
315 Southern Utah 0.3578
316 Northridge 0.3522
317 Southern Miss 0.3520
318 Bethune-Cookman 0.3507
319 Campbell 0.3492
320 Morgan State 0.3491
321 Texas-Pan American 0.3459
322 Illinois-Chicago 0.3453
323 Longwood 0.3405
324 Niagara 0.3390
325 Montana State 0.3388
326 Presbyterian 0.3378
327 Austin Peay 0.3372
328 Furman 0.3367
329 NC-Greensboro 0.3364
330 New Orleans 0.3357
331 Coppin State 0.3350
332 Nicholls State 0.3340
333 Jacksonville 0.3311
334 Stetson 0.3278
335 Marist 0.3258
336 Savannah State 0.3241
337 Mississippi Valley State 0.3126
338 Binghamton 0.3058
339 North Carolina A&T 0.3005
340 Idaho State 0.3002
341 Central Connecticut State 0.2954
342 Chicago State 0.2953
343 Maine 0.2949
344 Alcorn State 0.2896
345 Tennessee State 0.2871
346 Maryland-Baltimore County 0.2869
347 Liberty 0.2680
348 San Jose State 0.2515
349 Florida A&M 0.2326
350 Central Arkansas 0.2304
351 Grambling 0.2115
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