American · 2026 season

Rice

#76Proj #79335-24L2

Form

last 10

Rank

#76

RPI

0.5351

SOS

#92

Home

21-11

Road/Neut

14-13

Last 10

6-4

Where they stand

Field projection hasn't computed for Rice yet.

Auto-bid path

Lost the auto-bid. East Carolina took the American bid — path is now RPI-only.

Path to Omaha

Rice 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 ▼ 3 when NCAA refreshes

#76 → #79

Through May 24

Why ▼ 3?

Rice hasn't played since the refresh. Past opponents went 2-0. #40 East Carolina's win was the biggest single move (+0.0007 to WP2); net opponent activity shifted WP2 by +0.0007. But 3 teams (BYU, Washington State, South Carolina Upstate) climbed past Rice, dropping them to #79.

WP1

0.0000

Own results

WP2

+0.0007

Opponents' results (50% of RPI)

WP3

+0.0003

Opponents' opponents

Rice's results since

No games played since the refresh.

Any shift comes entirely from past opponents' activity.

Past opponents' activity

East Carolina#401-0+0.0007
Saint Mary's College#1401-0+0.0003

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.

Public API

Rice as JSON

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