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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2639149, member: 6927"] The middle of the Big 12 got absolutely killed in the RPI this year, but it wasn't because of the 18-game schedule. It was because 3 of the 4 teams in the second tier of the conference — Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and TCU — each played *horrible* nonconference schedules. Here are some of their illustrious opponents (RPI rank in parentheses): [LIST] [*]Louisiana-Monroe (338) [*]Northwestern State *twice* (337) [*]Incarnate Word (313) [*]UT Rio Grande Valley (307) [*]South Carolina Upstate (303) [*]Coppin State (322) [*]Central Connecticut (288) [*]Morgan State (273) [*]Sacramento State (272) [*]Southwestern Louisiana (296) [/LIST] You'll notice that Oklahoma's RPI didn't seem to be harmed by the 18-game conference schedule. West Virginia seems to always schedule very light in the nonconference, and they count on making their hay of quality wins in the conference (which is exactly what they did last year). But this year TCU and Okie State did almost the same thing, and that caused the conference to lose the critical mass in collective strength of schedule that could any of those individual teams with a weak OOC SOS. [/QUOTE]