2021 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 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
Arkansas
312
2
Mississippi State
86
3
Vanderbilt
82
4
Texas
28
5
Notre Dame
-
6
Tennessee
-9
7
Stanford
-49
8
Arizona
-79
9
Fairfield
-85
10
TCU
-98
11
Ole Miss
-131
12
North Carolina State
-143
13
Old Dominion
-145
14
Texas Tech
-159
15
East Carolina
-160
16
Oklahoma State
-194
17
Oregon
-246
18
Oregon State
-264
19
LSU
-266
20
South Carolina
-269
21
Duke
-274
22
Southern Miss
-275
23
UCLA
-301
24
UC Irvine
-303
25
Connecticut
-309
50
Ball State
-534
75
Rhode Island
-730
100
Abilene Christian
-817
125
Southeastern Louisiana
-980
150
Kent State
-1098
175
Toledo
-1191
200
North Carolina Central
-1279
225
Texas State
-1397
250
Bucknell
-1541
275
Saint Bonaventure
-1894
 

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

No significant Indirect Impact Games today