After almost a year with no HS rankings, we're back!

Now, as you can imagine, this is very difficult to do. Normally at this time of the year we would be ranking teams that hadn't played and possibly wouldn't play for quite some time. This is possible (usually) because we KNOW those teams are good every year, we KNOW they will play at some point, and we've checked in to see how they are reloading.

But this year, some teams may not play a season, at least not a season we can recognize. Some won't play until much later in the season and we don't know how their numbers are affected.

So ... we are ranking only two sorts of teams—teams who are playing right now, and teams we are fairly confident will play very soon.

Within those two groups we give greater rankings value to teams that have actually played games. We also give greater value to teams that are slated to play soon, as opposed to those slated to play in April or later.

And a team "hoping" to play in April isn't ranked as highly as a team almost assured to play in May.

So where's Gonzaga? Waiting for the OK to play games. Where's Xavier? Same deal. Why is Dallas Jesuit #1? Because they played two good teams and beat them. Simple as that.

(Aaand ... there you go. We had Fishers listed but that was based on bad information. So we changed it.)

Goff Rugby Report Boys Single-School Rankings Week 1 2021
Rank		Team	Notes
1		Dallas Jesuit (TX)	Won big against good opposition.
2		Bixby (OK)	Impressive victory over Jr. Stormers.
3		Strake Jesuit (TX)	Two solid wins over the weekend.
4		Brother Martin (LA)	Beat Bayou. Beat Lake Travis.
5		Jesuit New Orleans (LA)	Tied Bayou and beat Lake Travis, hence behind Br. Martin.
6		St. Ignatius (OH)	Playing 1st game March 6. Regular top-5 team.
7		St. Thomas Aquinas (KS)	Was very good last year. Playing soon.
8		St. Edward (OH)	Playing 1st game March 13. Regular top-10 team.
9		Penn (IN)	Playing in a few weeks. Regular top-5 team.
10		Lake Travis (TX)	Played and lost twice, but close, and on the road.
11		Sacramento Jesuit (CA)	Top historical team we know will play eventually.
12		Herriman (UT)	2nd-best team historically we know will play eventually.
13		De La Salle (CA)	Was above Jesuit in 2020 but ... you know ... history.
14		St. Augustine (CA)	Best team from SCIRF in SoCal over last few years.
15		Regis Jesuit (CO)	Preseason favorite in new Colorado school league.
16		Rocky Mountain (ID)	Best single-school team in the non-coastal west.
17		East HS (CO)	Preseason favorite in Rugby Colorado.
18		Cathedral Catholic (CA)	Contender in SCIRF, which is expected to play later this spring.
19		Torrey Pines (CA)	Contender in SCIRF, which is expected to play later this spring.
20		East HS (UT)	Should be able to play soon.
Goff Rugby Report Boys Single-School Rankings Week 1 2021