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Title Chances (2026 – 2027)

  1. Cambridge6.4%
  2. UCLA5.3%
  3. Georgia Tech4.5%
  4. Toronto4.5%
  5. Waterloo4.2%
  6. Brown4.0%
  7. WashU4.0%
  8. Wake Forest3.6%
  9. Illinois3.4%
  10. Penn3.1%

Group A

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
Michigan19.4%38.0%
Columbia18.4%35.0%
MIT17.7%35.2%
Vanderbilt17.6%34.7%
Imperial16.1%33.0%
Harvey Mudd10.8%24.0%

Group B

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
Cambridge31.7%54.5%
Brown23.4%44.7%
Claremont McKenna15.6%32.8%
Florida11.2%24.8%
Wesleyan10.6%24.8%
Duke7.5%18.4%

Group C

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
WashU25.5%46.2%
USC19.6%38.3%
NYU19.2%38.2%
Arizona State12.6%26.6%
Karlsruhe12.0%26.4%
Cornell11.1%24.4%

Group D

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
Toronto27.5%50.4%
Georgia Tech27.2%50.2%
Penn21.6%43.0%
UC San Diego11.4%25.8%
Northeastern8.7%21.0%
Babson3.5%9.7%

Group E

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
Illinois25.9%46.0%
Warwick16.7%33.7%
Georgetown15.2%31.5%
Tufts15.2%31.4%
Yale13.7%29.4%
Carnegie Mellon13.3%28.0%

Group F

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
Waterloo29.8%52.0%
UC Berkeley21.5%41.2%
Emory16.9%35.4%
McGill14.8%32.0%
Williams12.2%26.7%
Harvard4.8%12.6%

Group G

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
UCLA32.8%56.1%
Lehigh16.5%34.4%
ETH Zurich16.4%34.1%
UCL16.2%34.6%
Dartmouth15.4%33.2%
Texas2.6%7.5%

Group H

TeamWin groupPlayoffs
Wake Forest23.5%43.5%
Virginia20.5%39.7%
Boston College19.9%38.6%
Stanford12.2%26.6%
Birmingham12.1%25.8%
Princeton11.8%25.8%

Past seasons

The title chances each team was given before the season and before the Finals, with how it finished.

Preseason title chances

  1. Johns Hopkins6%Group stage
  2. Vanderbilt5%Group stage
  3. Brown5%Wildcard
  4. Wake Forest5%Playoffs
  5. Cambridge4%Champion
  6. Waterloo4%Finals
  7. Georgia Tech4%Playoffs
  8. Cornell4%Playoffs
  9. MIT4%Group stage
  10. Carnegie Mellon4%Group stage

IPA Finals

TeamChanceOdds
Cambridge31%+200Champion
Waterloo26%+250
Penn22%+300
NYU22%+333

Preseason title chances

  1. Georgia Tech5%Finals
  2. Vanderbilt4%Playoffs
  3. Tufts4%Group stage
  4. Waterloo4%Champion
  5. Oxford3%Finals
  6. Harvey Mudd3%Group stage
  7. Harvard3%Group stage
  8. Yale3%Wildcard
  9. Cornell3%Playoffs
  10. USC3%Group stage

IPA Finals

TeamChanceOdds
Carnegie Mellon27%+225
Oxford25%+250
Georgia Tech24%+275
Waterloo23%+300Champion

Preseason title chances

  1. Brown6%Group stage
  2. Oxford6%Playoffs
  3. Vanderbilt6%Playoffs
  4. Georgia Tech5%Finals
  5. Tufts5%Playoffs
  6. Columbia Law5%Champion
  7. Claremont McKenna4%Group stage
  8. Penn4%Group stage
  9. MIT4%Group stage
  10. WashU4%Group stage

IPA Finals

TeamChanceOdds
Georgia Tech32%+188
Columbia Law26%+250Champion
Pomona23%+300
USC19%+350

Preseason title chances

  1. Brown7%Champion
  2. Yale3%Playoffs
  3. Columbia Law3%Finals
  4. Boston U3%Group stage
  5. Pomona3%Playoffs
  6. Tufts3%Playoffs
  7. Penn3%Playoffs
  8. Edinburgh3%Group stage
  9. Waterloo3%Group stage
  10. Wesleyan2%Group stage

IPA Finals

TeamChanceOdds
Vanderbilt27%+225
Auckland26%+250
Brown24%+275Champion
Columbia Law23%+300

Preseason title chances

  1. Boston U8%Group stage
  2. Chicago Booth8%Group stage
  3. Columbia Law8%Group stage
  4. Harvard8%Group stage
  5. Michigan8%Group stage
  6. Pomona8%Group stage
  7. MIT8%Finals
  8. Cornell8%Group stage
  9. Cambridge8%Finals
  10. UMass8%Group stage

IPA Finals

TeamChanceOdds
MIT32%+200
Brown29%+200Champion
Cambridge20%+350
Yale19%+350

IPA Finals

TeamChanceOdds
Brown51%-110
Boston U49%-110Champion