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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