How Top-Ranked HS Teams Fared This Week
It was a fairly busy week for top-of-the-rankings teams. Here's how several of the higher-ranked teams did.
Big Games for #1s
Current #1-ranked school team is Torrey Pines, and they played and won the Southern California school final on Wednesday over Orange Lutheran.
Boys HS Club Rankings 2026 Week 9
As we warned you earlier this year, these rankings will have major changes.
Club teams can have high turnover and the ebb and flow of success is a bit more dramatic for clubs than it is for schools. Having said that, we made a mistake in moving Boca down earlier because we should have ensured they remained ranked ahead of Key Biscayne.
Boys School-Team Rankings Week 9
There's a good chance that St. Ignatius could have moved up to #1 this week after two victories this week.
Boys HS Club Rankings 2026 Week 8
We've not been updating the club rankings every week because the density of club games hasn't been super high.
But with the Puriri Memorial, we did have a bunch this week. Now, it's important to be careful about an event like the Puriri. This is a preseason event and teams often put out a development group and take a loss in order to help players get up to speed.
Boys School-Team Rankings Week 7
GRR went on the Rugby NorCal podcast and got a bit of stick (all very good-natured) at where we have the Northern California teams ranked.
And it is a tough one when we know all of these teams are high-quality, but no one is clearly dominant, so this team beats that team and that team beats another, which beats the first one.
