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Other than the recent omission of Lamar, the Aggies have been playing just about every respectable Texas team in recent years. We aren't the only team that has a handful of "bad" games on the RPI.
Yes, we've played the respectable programs. But we've not been playing most of the better programs with any regularity.
Yes, we're not the only team with a handful of bad RPI games. But the numbers are what they are and on the whole, our schedules have been pretty weak.
This year, right now, our non-conference SoS this is 213. Only 3 of the 34 teams ahead of us in the RPI have a non-conference RPI below 114. Only 2 are below 136. Those are:
Louisville at 236. (They still have midweek games with 28 Vanderbilt and at 23 Indiana so their SoS will likely improve a good amount.)
Virginia at 205.
South Florida at 136. (They still have midweek games at 6 Florida, vs 69 FGCU, and at 74 Jacksonville so their SoS will also likely improve a good amount.)
If you look behind us, only 2 other teams in the top 55 have a non-conference SoS below 125. That's St. Johns at 251 and Mercer at 216.
From a non-conference RPI standpoint, we are at 59. No one in the top 17 of overall RPI has a non-conference RPI worse than 25. Only 5 of the 34 teams in front of us have a non-conference RPI of 40 or worse.