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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2422088, member: 1969"]
Sometimes you have to admit you are wrong.   And I was wrong to say the individual RPI is meaningless, especially where ours is trending right now.  So I do need to apologize to OrangeZoo in that regard.

Top conference teams can also benefit from a good "Empty RPI" in certain situations.   In that case it clearly matters, and that is where we could be heading this year.  And the tracking of our current RPI does show how we can there.

I was fixated on our "Bad RPI" hurting us last year.  It didn't, but that does not mean RPI cannot help.   It could be the opposite this year.

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With a 20-11 record this year our RPI should come in around #36.  The #36 could fluctuate with road/home win mix  being abnormal.  And of course this is all based on projecting our opponents.  So it is fluid, but enough of the season has past that it will not swing past #45 in the worse case.

Why is this happening?  Our OOC SOS is projecting at #20 this year while last year it finished at #157.

But if we close out the OOC play with 1 loss, and only go 8-10 in the ACC, we could have an RPI around #35.   This is the "Empty RPI" in a top conference coming to help this year.   A p5 team will not be excluded at #35.

This also shows we have done a lot less damage to ourselves this year to date than last year, so we don't need the same number as top 50 wins as prior years.
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