Upcoming RPI Impact Games for South Carolina Baseball

2026 South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks Impact Games

Impact Games are games that can move a team up or down the RPI Ladder (increase or decrease RPI Rank).

Direct Impact Games are head-to-head matchups for the team.

Indirect Impact Games are games that include a previous opponent of the team and impact the team's SOS component of RPI.

Late in the season, Indirect Impact Games may only have a small impact on a team's RPI Rank.

Normally, a win will increase a team's RPI Rank and a loss will decrease it, but sometimes when playing a really strong opponent a win or a loss will increase RPI Rank and when playing a much weaker opponent a win or a loss will decrease RPI Rank.

RPI Points are approximate.

RPI Ladder

RPI	Team	RPI Pts Needed
1	UCLA	1180
25	UCF	563
50	Louisiana	302
74	Dallas Baptist	120
75	Louisiana Tech	116
76	Connecticut	106
77	Notre Dame	104
78	Cal State Fullerton	75
79	Duke	75
80	Minnesota	74
81	Xavier	70
82	Creighton	61
83	South Alabama	60
84	Cal Poly	57
85	Southeastern Louisiana	57
86	UC San Diego	56
87	Utah	56
88	UNCW	55
89	East Tennessee State	33
90	Illinois	33
91	Louisville	10
92	Northern Illinois	8
93	South Carolina	-
94	Stanford	0
95	Portland	-4
96	Lamar	-42
97	Indiana	-44
98	Little Rock	-46
99	Wofford	-50
100	Saint John's	-51
101	San Diego State	-52
102	Rice	-63
103	Samford	-63
104	Binghamton	-67
105	Charlotte	-67
106	Kennesaw State	-69
107	Houston	-70
108	South Carolina Upstate	-74
109	Appalachian State	-76
110	Hawaii	-81
111	Saint Mary's College	-85
112	Western Kentucky	-96
125	Michigan State	-175
150	Northeastern	-285
175	William & Mary	-381
200	Middle Tennessee	-484
225	Marist	-655
250	Eastern Michigan	-823
275	Canisius	-951
300	Central Connecticut	-1440
301	Prairie View A&M	-1539

Direct Impact Games

	Final		R	H	E
		The Citadel (22-22, 6-9 Southern)	4	11	0
		South Carolina (22-24, 7-14 SEC)	0	3	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CITA	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	11	0
SC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1

Live Win Probability

CITA

50%

South Carolina Wins:
South Carolina Loses:

18 RPI Points
-35 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Bottom 6th 0-0 0 Outs		R	H	E
		Sam Houston State (20-24, 9-12 Conference USA)	9	8	0
		4 Texas (32-9, 13-7 SEC)	9	7	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SHST	3	0	5	1	0	0				9	8	0
TEX	0	2	1	0	5	1				9	7	1

Live Win Probability

SHST

50%

TEX

Texas Wins:
Texas Loses:

1.7 RPI Points
-6.1 RPI Points

	Final		R	H	E
		Eastern Kentucky (10-34, 4-17 ASUN)	16	18	3
		Northern Kentucky (20-23, 9-9 Horizon League)	6	9	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
EKU	0	3	1	3	5	0	2	0	2	16	18	3
NKU	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	9	1

Live Win Probability

EKU

50%

NKU

Northern Kentucky Wins:
Northern Kentucky Loses:

4.0 RPI Points
-3.4 RPI Points

	Top 7th 0-1 2 Outs		R	H	E
		18 Ole Miss (31-14, 11-10 SEC)	3	5	0
		9 Mississippi State (34-10, 13-8 SEC)	6	10	2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
MISS	0	0	0	0	0	3	0			3	5	0
MSST	4	1	0	0	0	1				6	10	2

Live Win Probability

MISS

50%

MSST

Mississippi State Wins:
Mississippi State Loses:

1.6 RPI Points
-5.6 RPI Points

	Final/7		R	H	E
		Troy (22-23, 12-9 Sun Belt)	1	6	0
		5 Georgia (35-11, 15-6 SEC)	11	11	0

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
TROY	0	0	0	0	0	0	1			1	6	0
UGA	0	2	0	2	2	5	X			11	11	0

Live Win Probability

TROY

50%

UGA

Georgia Wins:
Georgia Loses:

1.7 RPI Points
-5.3 RPI Points

	Final		R	H	E
		Gardner-Webb (21-24, 8-10 Big South)	6	8	0
		Wofford (30-15, 8-4 Southern)	0	3	2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
WEBB	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	6	8	0
WOFF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2

Live Win Probability

WEBB

50%

WOFF

Wofford Wins:
Wofford Loses:

1.6 RPI Points
-3.2 RPI Points

	Top 9th 0-0 2 Outs		R	H	E
		10 Coastal Carolina (30-13, 17-4 Sun Belt)	11	15	0
		2 North Carolina (36-8, 17-7 ACC)	2	6	2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
COAS	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	2	11	15	0
UNC	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	6	2

Live Win Probability

COAS

50%

UNC

North Carolina Wins:
North Carolina Loses:

0.4 RPI Points
-2.0 RPI Points