Conference USA · 2026 season

Western Kentucky

#139Proj #140130-27L1

Form

last 10

Rank

#139

RPI

0.5046

SOS

#109

Home

22-14

Road/Neut

8-13

Last 10

5-5

Where they stand

Field projection hasn't computed for Western Kentucky yet.

Auto-bid path

Lost the auto-bid. Jacksonville State took the Conference USA bid — path is now RPI-only.

Path to Omaha

Western Kentucky 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 ▼ 1 when NCAA refreshes

#139 → #140

Through May 24

Why ▼ 1?

Western Kentucky hasn't played since the refresh. Past opponents went 2-0. #32 Liberty's win was the biggest single move (+0.0004 to WP2); net opponent activity shifted WP2 by +0.0004. But Saint Mary's College surged ▲13 (#140 → #127), pushing Western Kentucky to #140.

WP1

0.0000

Own results

WP2

+0.0004

Opponents' results (50% of RPI)

WP3

-0.0001

Opponents' opponents

Western Kentucky's results since

No games played since the refresh.

Any shift comes entirely from past opponents' activity.

Past opponents' activity

Liberty#321-0+0.0004
Kentucky#371-0+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.

Public API

Western Kentucky as JSON

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