In this paper we study quasi-orthogonality on the unit circle based on the
structural and orthogonal properties of a class of self-invariant
polynomials. We discuss a special case in which these polynomials are
represented in terms of the reversed Szeg? polynomials of consecutive
degrees and illustrate the results using contiguous relations of
hypergeometric functions. This work is motivated partly by the fact that
recently cases have been made to establish para-orthogonal polynomials as
the unit circle analogues of quasi-orthogonal polynomials on the real line
so far as spectral properties are concerned. We show that structure wise too
there is great analogy when self-inversive polynomials are used to study
quasi-orthogonality on the unit circle.