The latest RPI rankings for SC high school football teams. See who moved up, down
The latest MaxPreps RPI rankings in South Carolina has the same teams at the top as last week, but others made moves after Thursday and Friday’s games.
The biggest movement came in Class 4A Lower State, where North Augusta took the top spot from May River, who dropped four spots after losing to Hilton Head Island on Thursday. Hartsville moved up three spots in 4A Lower State.
The RPI is based 50% on your winning percentage, 40% on your opponents’ winning percentage and 10% on your opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage.
Using the RPI rankings, region champions will be seeded first in the playoffs followed by second-, third- and fourth-place finishers. All non-automatic qualifiers would make up the rest of the bracket based on MaxPreps’ RPI standings.
For the Class 4A playoffs, there will be 16 teams in the upper state and 16 in the lower state. As an example, the region champions in Upper and Lower State will be seeded based on RPI. The same goes for second place and so on. Class 4A used 1-16 seeding the past two years but didn’t use an RPI formula.
With the use of RPI, there will be no predetermined home and away teams in the Class 4A and 5A playoff brackets, which most coaches are glad to see go away. The highest remaining seed will host. Because of the seeding criteria, region teams could face each other in the first round of the postseason.
MaxPreps RPI rankings
Rankings are as of Sunday, Oct. 20 (2:30 p.m.)
The ↑ indicates if moved up from last week and the ↓ indicates if moved down.
——Class 5A Division I——
—Upper State—
Dutch Fork, 7-0, 0.86087
Spartanburg, 5-1, 0.76781
River Bluff, 7-1, 0.72538
JL Mann, 4-2, 0.66235
Lexington, 5-3, 0.64531
Clover, 5-3, 0.60734 ↑ 2
Boiling Springs, 4-2, 0.60139 ↓ 1
Rock Hill, 5-4, 0.57314 ↓ 1
Dorman, 4-3, 0.56499
Byrnes, 3-4, 0.52052
Mauldin, 2-4, 0.41258
Wade Hampton, 0-6, 0.17074
—Lower State—
Summerville, 8-0, 0.79069
Sumter, 8-0, 0.74651
Ridge View, 5-3, 0.63881 ↑ 1
Ashley Ridge, 6-2, 0.63079 ↓ 1
James Island, 5-3, 0.57895
Blythewood, 6-3, 0.56058 ↓ 1
Carolina Forest, 3-3-1, 0.52872
Fort Dorchester, 4-4, 0.52571 ↓ 2
West Ashley, 4-4, 0.47613 ↑ 2
Wando, 4-4, 0.45429 ↓ 1
Stratford, 3-5, 0.42382
Cane Bay, 1-7, 0.30809 ↑ 1
Spring Valley, 0-8, 0.30585 ↓ 1
Stall, 0-7, 0.24833
——Class 5A Division II——
—Upper State—
Northwestern, 9-0, 0.82229
Gaffney, 6-0, 0.80629
TL Hanna, 4-2, 0.67951 ↑ 1
Hillcrest, 5-1, 0.65930 ↑ 2
Greenwood, 5-1, 0.65781 ↓ 2
Riverside, 4-2, 0.59312 ↓ 1
Catawba Ridge, 6-2, 0.59123
Indian Land, 4-4, 0.46743 ↑ 1
Eastside, 3-3, 0.46499 ↓ 1
Woodmont, 1-5, 0.37202 ↑ 2
Nation Ford, 1-7, 0.36834
Greenville, 1-5, 0.35714 ↓ 2
Fort Mill, 1-6, 0.33609
Easley, 1-5, 0.31893
—Lower State—
Irmo, 8-0, 0.82475
Chapin, 4-4, 0.59659 ↑ 1
White Knoll, 4-4,0 .58702 ↑ 1
West Florence, 5-3, 0.58215 ↓ 2
Goose Creek, 5-3, 0.57984
Westwood, 5-3, 0.54921
Myrtle Beach, 4-3, 0.53118
Berkeley, 4-4, 0.51632
Lucy Beckham, 4-4, 0.46824
Lugoff-Elgin, 3-6, 0.44219
Socastee, 2-5, 0.39237
North Myrtle Beach, 2-5, 0.37765
Conway, 1-6, 0.31762
St. James, 0-7, 0.22908
——Class 4A——
—Upper State—
Westside, 6-0, 0.85988
Daniel, 5-1, 0.66893 ↑ 1
South Pointe, 6-2, 0.66838 ↑ 2
Wren, 5-1, 0.66259 ↓1
Seneca, 6-1, 0.64605 ↓ 3
AC Flora. 6-2, 0.63390
Richland Northeast, 6-2, 0.60344 ↑ 1
Greer. 4-3, 0.60341 ↑ 2
Camden, 5-3, 0.59769
Fountain Inn, 4-3, 0.59006 ↓ 3
Pickens, 3-3, 0.50695
Emerald, 3-4, 0.46017
Lancaster, 3-5, 0.44490
Dreher, 3-5, 0.42670
Blue Ridge, 3-3, 0.40961 ↑ 2
Berea, 2-4, 0.39117 ↓ 1
Laurens, 1-6, 0.37433
York, 2-6, 0.36708 ↓ 2
Travelers Rest, 1-5, 0.30422
Southside, 0-7, 0.16575
—Lower State—
North Augusta. 5-1, 0.70644 ↑ 1
Hartsville, 6-1-1, 0.67533 ↑ 3
Bishop England, 6-2, 0.67431 ↑ 1
South Florence, 6-2, 0.66678 ↓ 1
May River, 6-1, 0.66658 ↓ 4
Gray Collegiate, 4-2, 0.63652
Hilton Head Island, 5-2, 0.59178 ↑ 2
Bluffton, 5-2, 0.56320 ↓ 1
Darlington. 4-4, 0.52176 ↓ 1
Gilbert, 3-3, 0.50498 ↑4
Crestwood. 3-5, 0.49098
Lower Richland, 5-4, 0.48594
South Aiken. 2-4, 0.46108 ↓ 3
Beaufort, 2-6, 0.40074 ↑ 1
Lakewood, 2-6, 0.39034 ↓ 1
Midland Valley, 2-5, 0.37369 ↑ 2
Brookland-Cayce, 2-5, 0.37010 ↓ 1
Airport, 1-5, 0.36514 ↓ 1
Colleton County, 1-7, 0.30139
Wilson, 1-8, 0.29884
Aiken, 0-6, 0.15877
This story was originally published October 19, 2024 at 2:26 PM with the headline "The latest RPI rankings for SC high school football teams. See who moved up, down."
