Those two midweek losses last week...

[DudyDog]

What did they do to our RPI? Remember this when host sites are selected.

MSU compared to BYU.

We have played a stronger schedule, yet we are 35 spots lower than them because we have 4 more losses, two of which fall under the 101-200 category. Those two losses....last weeks midweek games.

RPI SOS 1-50 51-100 101-200 201+ MSU 13-5-1 49 74 2-1 5-2 1-2-1 5-0 BYU 18-1 14 131 3-1 0-0 6-0 9-0 <tbody> </tbody>

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[DudyDog]

Forgot to add...

Both teams have played 3 games so far this past week.

We have dropped 21 spots; BYU has risen 8 spots.

We went 1-2 to teams with RPI's of 176, 114 and 32.
They went 3-0 to teams with RPI's of 162, 253 and 253.

RPI is calculated by more than just wins and losses, and even though we have a SOS 57 spots higher, going 1-2 instead of 3-0 caused us to drop 21 spots.

Midweek games matter! Always have, always will. It's one thing to lose out on hosting by losing SEC games, but when we lose out on hosting because of losses to teams with RPI's of 176 and 114, that pisses me off.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Agreed, we need to play to win them all.

I think in hindsight Cohen and Stricklin would agree that scheduling the two midweek games between Top 10 opponents was unwise. Not sure we were 100% committed to giving all we had against either team

 

[57stratdawg]

It's too early to put much stock into RPI right now. Check back in it after we play LSU, AM, OM, and UF.

 

[DudyDog]

We never learn regarding RPI. We do this every year. And every year we struggle having a decent RPI at the end of the year. There are a ton of teams surrounding us that we could schedule with good RPI's that would help ours. And we should be able to win the majority of them. Some examples: Team and (RPI)

Northwestern St. (La.) (29)
La. Lafayette (32)
Samford (37)
New Orleans (49)
Tulane (54)
S.E. Mo. St. (57)
S.E. La. (78)
Ark. St. (90)

Instead we have played or scheduled to play:
So. Dakota St. (241)
Nicholl's St. (239)
Alcorn (294)
MVSU (300)
Tn. Martin (266)
Memphis (192)

 

[DudyDog]

It's too early to put much stock into RPI right now. Check back in it after we play LSU, AM, OM, and UF.

The problem strat is that LSU, A&M, OM and UF will have their RPI go up also.

Here are the final projections for RPI from Warren Nolan

Fla. 4
USC 6
OM 11
A&M 12
Ga. 13
Vy 24
LSU 34
TN 63
MSU 76

Ala, Auburn, Ark, Ky, Mo. all fall below MSU, but there are 8 teams ahead of MSU that will be fighting for host spots if their record is at or better than ours and they want to host.

Our OOC schedule does us no favors when compared to other SEC teams. We have got to stop scheduling 200+ RPI's if we want to get back into the hosting game. Not to mention winning the games we are supposed to like last weeks midweeks.

 

[patdog]

There better be no freaking way our rpi is that low at the end of the season. I'm thinking more like top 30 than top 80.

 

[57stratdawg]

We've done all we can do from an OOC schedule standpoint this year. Unless we decide to totally abandon SWAC schools, we're all out of options.

 

[57stratdawg]

Also, I can't currently replicate Warren's RPI calculation for MSU. It hasn't been a problem in the past. I think he might have some of our Dodger Stadium games misclassified.

 

[57stratdawg]

Yeah, i have no idea how he's coming up with that, but he's way wrong.

 

[KurtRambis4]

But you're

comparing us to BYU's. Theirs won't go up that much, ours will.