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 four region champions in Upper and Lower State will be seeded 1-4 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 Saturday, Oct. 19 (11:34)

The ↑ indicates if moved up from last week and the ↓ indicates if moved down.

Teams in bold haven’t updated their records in the system.

——Class 5A Division I——

—Upper State—

Dutch Fork, 7-0, 0.85799

Spartanburg, 5-1, 0.76732

River Bluff, 7-1, 0.72641

JL Mann, 4-2, 0.66235

Lexington, 5-3, 0.64510

Clover, 5-3, 0.60710 ↑ 2

Boiling Springs, 4-2, 0.60098 ↓ 1

Rock Hill, 5-4, 0.57384 ↓ 1

Dorman, 4-3, 0.56464

Byrnes, 3-4, 0.52064

Mauldin, 2-4, 0.41228

Wade Hampton, 0-6, 0.17037

—Lower State—

Summerville, 8-0, 0.78693

Sumter, 8-0, 0.75267

Ashley Ridge, 6-2, 0.63167

Ridge View, 4-3, 0.60906

James Island, 5-3, 0.57903 ↑ 4

Blythewood, 6-3, 0.56549 ↓ 1

Carolina Forest, 3-3-1, 0.52920

Fort Dorchester, 4-4, 0.52579 ↓ 2

Wando, 4-3, 0.48786

West Ashley, 4-4, 0.47474 ↑ 1

Stratford, 3-5, 0.41905 ↓ 2

Cane Bay, 1-7, 0.31160 ↑ 1

Spring Valley, 0-8, 0.30028 ↓ 1

Stall, 0-7, 0.24812

——Class 5A Division II——

—Upper State—

Northwestern, 9-0, 0.82033

Gaffney, 6-0, 0.80588

TL Hanna, 4-2, 0.67910 ↑ 1

Hillcrest, 5-1, 0.65922 ↑ 2

Greenwood, 5-1, 0.65815 ↓ 2

Riverside, 4-2, 0.58440 ↓ 1

Catawba Ridge, 5-2, 0.58081

Eastside, 3-3, 0.46816

Indian Land, 4-4, 0.46650

Nation Ford, 1-6, 0.37476 ↑ 1

Woodmont, 1-5, 0.37175 ↑ 1

Greenville, 1-5, 0.35804 ↓ 2

Fort Mill, 1-6, 0.33373

Easley, 1-5, 0.31893

—Lower State—

Irmo, 8-0, 0.82496

West Florence, 5-2, 0.62423

Chapin, 4-4, 0.59451

White Knoll, 4-4, 0.58731

Goose Creek, 5-3, 0.58061

Westwood, 5-3, 0.54399

Myrtle Beach, 4-3, 0.53711

Berkeley, 3-4, 0.47469

Lucy Beckham, 4-4, 0.46860

Lugoff-Elgin, 3-6, 0.44346

Socastee, 2-5, 0.40127

North Myrtle Beach, 2-5, 0.37823

Conway, 1-6, 0.32169

St. James, 0-7, 0.23123

——Class 4A——

—Upper State—

Westside, 6-0, 0.85172

Daniel, 5-1, 0.66794 ↑ 1

South Pointe, 6-2, 0.66753 ↑ 2

Wren, 5-1, 0.66214 ↓1

Seneca, 6-1, 0.64555 ↓ 3

AC Flora. 6-2, 0.62287

Richland Northeast, 6-2, 0.60427 ↑ 1

Greer. 4-3, 0.60353 ↑ 2

Camden, 5-3, 0.59838

Fountain Inn, 4-3, 0.59307 ↓ 3

Pickens, 3-3, 0.50707

Emerald, 2-4, 0.44626

Lancaster, 3-5, 0.44135

Dreher, 3-4, 0.43837

Blue Ridge, 3-3, 0.40298 ↑ 2

Berea, 2-4, 0.39452 ↓ 1

Laurens, 1-6, 0.37231

York, 2-6, 0.36789 ↓ 2

Travelers Rest, 1-5, 0.29668

Southside, 0-6, 0.16354

—Lower State—

North Augusta. 5-1, 0.70636 ↑ 1

Hartsville, 6-1-1, 0.67568 ↑ 3

Bishop England, 6-2, 0.67404 ↑ 1

South Florence, 6-2, 0.67271 ↓ 1

May River, 6-1, 0.66637 ↓ 4

Gray Collegiate, 4-2, 0.63641

Hilton Head Island, 5-2, 0.59179 ↑ 2

Bluffton, 5-2, 0.56324 ↓ 1

Darlington. 4-4, 0.52213 ↓ 1

Gilbert, 3-3, 0.50521 ↑4

Crestwood. 3-5, 0.49138

Lower Richland, 5-4, 0.48604

South Aiken. 2-4, 0.46116 ↓ 3

Beaufort, 2-6, 0.40073 ↑ 1

Lakewood, 2-6, 0.39257 ↓ 1

Midland Valley, 2-5, 0.37405 ↑ 2

Brookland-Cayce, 2-5, 0.37031 ↓ 1

Airport, 1-5, 0.36512 ↓ 1

Wilson, 1-8, 0.30350 ↑ 1

Colleton County, 1-7, 0.29962 ↓ 1

Aiken, 0-6, 0.16310