The top school teams in the nation are all, we feel, pretty close.
Herriman holds onto #1 and Ignatius holds on to #2. Ignatius did indeed come in 3rd in the Midwest Championship, but, as they do every year, they left their seniors at home because of a school event. So, yes, it was an impressive performance by the winning team, Bishop Dwenger, but at this point it's not the right thing to move Ignatius down or to move Dwenger ahead of them.
And then, having said that, Dwenger does move up ahead of the teams they beat, and since Notre Dame de La Salette had earlier tied St. Edward and then beat SEHS in the semis by a try, it makes sense, at the moment, to move Dwenger past both of those teams.
Now, this is a tournament format with shortened games, so you take it with a grain of salt. But the final games aren't especially shorter, so they matter. If La Salette ends up doing well at the National Championships, Dwenger, which opted not to go after winning a play-in, would likely move up with them.
As for Ignatius, it's worth pointing out that they probably have had the toughest schedule in the nation among school teams at least. They have played five games against four of the teams going to the national tournament (twice vs St. Edward and a third match, a league match, coming up this week). They are 11-2, with the two losses being a Midwest game without their seniors against a team they have already beaten, and a loss to a professional French academy team. Of their 13 games, two were against French teams, and 10 of the remaining 11 were against ranked teams.
Playoffs mean more than other games, so Celina moves up past St. Thomas having won the Texas school final. Regis Jesuit moves past Monarch. Rocky Mountain dropped out after a league loss to Middleton, but it was a game that didn't really change anything because those two teams were set to meet in the Idaho playoffs.
In that game, Rocky Mountain won, so Rocky moves back in.
