Big Ten · 2026 season

Penn State

#197Proj #199216-35L2

Form

last 10

Rank

#197

RPI

0.4766

SOS

#70

Home

11-13

Road/Neut

5-22

Last 10

4-6

Where they stand

Field projection hasn't computed for Penn State yet.

Auto-bid path

Lost the auto-bid. UCLA took the Big Ten bid — path is now RPI-only.

Path to Omaha

Penn State isn't projected to reach Omaha.

Path becomes visible once the at-large/host math gets within reach.

Since NCAA's last refresh

Predicted to slip ▼ 2 when NCAA refreshes

#197 → #199

Through May 24

Why ▼ 2?

Penn State hasn't played since the refresh. Past opponents went 1-0. #10 Nebraska's win was the biggest single move (+0.0002 to WP2); net opponent activity shifted WP2 by +0.0003. 2 teams (UNLV and Holy Cross) climbed past Penn State, dropping them to #199.

WP1

0.0000

Own results

WP2

+0.0003

Opponents' results (50% of RPI)

WP3

-0.0008

Opponents' opponents

Penn State's results since

No games played since the refresh.

Any shift comes entirely from past opponents' activity.

Past opponents' activity

Nebraska#101-0+0.0002

Predicted rank uses a linear approximation that holds quality-win and bad-loss bonus tiers constant per team. Accurate on small shifts; degrades as the field churns.

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SOS deep dive

Schedule strength, bucketed

Opponent-rank distribution + toughest 10-game stretch across every team.

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