Herriman could easily have retained #1 status after beating Riverton, but that wasn't a very close game, while Xavier was busy playing yet another highly-ranked team, and winning..

And right now it's about playing those games that allow us to measure your quality. Xavier has beaten three ranked teams in quick succession, and with De La Salle idle this week, and with Jesuit and Gonzaga having lost recently (and, in Gonzaga's case, twice in a row), our option was to keep most everything as it was, or reexamine everyone and look for a new #1.

We took option 2.

Gonzaga and Jesuit dropping is good news, because it's important for the health of the single-school game to disspell the idea that they are invincible. They aren't. But ... don't count either program out. They don't get rattled, they figure out what they need to figure out, and very few teams have the depth they do when it comes to performing at the National Championships.

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More highlights: Wando moves up eight spots after a pretty good showing at the Carolina Ruggerfest. St. Thomas Aquinas beat a very good Germantown team, and also beat Penn (!). 

Now, these games are meaningful, but they are also shortened preseason games. So while we move STA past Penn, and Wando up to #21, they still have work to do to stay there.

Joining the Top 50 is Notre Dame de la Salette, which beat ranked St. Louis University High, and Detroit Central Catholic, which beat a team, St. Thomas (Houston), that we had been ready to rank pending on more good result. In the end it was Detroit Catholic on tour that logged the needed result.

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Goff Rugby Report Boys Single-School Rankings Week 8
Rank	Prev	Team	Notes
1	6	Xavier (NY)	Beat Fort Hunt (C4)
2	1	Herriman (UT)	Beat Riverton
3	2	De La Salle (CA)
4	5	Sacramento Jesuit (CA)	Beat St. Augustine (9)
5	3	St. Ignatius (OH)
6	9	St. Augustine (CA)	Lost to Jesuit (5)
7	4	Gonzaga (DC)	Lost to Raleigh Redhawks (C20)
8	8	Carlsbad HS (CA)
9	11	St. Edward (OH)	Lost to Royal Irish (C3)
10	18	St. Thomas Aquinas (KS)	Beat Penn (7), Germantown (C11)
11	7	Penn (IN)	Lost to Aquinas (18), Beat KC (C16)
12	10	Greenwich (CT)
13	12	Fishers (IN)
14	13	Gregory the Great (PA)
15	14	Regis Jesuit (CO)	Beat Falcons
16	15	East HS (CO)	Beat PAC
17	16	St. Joe's Prep (PA)
18	17	Servite (CA)
19	19	Rocky Mountain (ID)	Beat Mano
20	20	San Clemente (CA)
21	29	Wando (SC)	Beat Media, Richmond, lost to Raleigh
22	21	Bixby (OK)	Beat Little Rock
23	22	Cathedral Catholic (CA)
24	23	Torrey Pines (CA)
25	25	Brother Rice (IL)
Goff Rugby Report Boys Single-School Rankings Week 8
26	28	Neuqua (IL)	Lost to Badger Acad., Charlotte (C2), Beat Hudson
27	30	Providence Panthers (NC)
28	31	Georgetown Prep (DC)	Beat Malvern Prep
29	32	East HS (UT)	Beat SLV
30	37	Lake Travis (TX)	Beat Rock Rugby
31	34	Westlake (TX)	Beat Dallas Jesuit (36)
32	33	Marquette HS (WI)
33	35	Good Counsel (MD)
34	36	Dallas Jesuit (TX)	Lost to Westlake (34)
35	38	St. Augustine (NJ)	On Tour
36	39	Murrieta Valley (CA)
37	Unr	Notre Dame de la Salette (IL)	Beat SLUH (24)
38	43	Clayton (NC)	Beat Salesianum, West Carroll, South Greenville (C32)
39	40	La Jolla (CA)
40	41	Brownsburg (IN)
41	24	St. Louis U High (MO)	Lost to ND de la Salette
42	Unr	Detroit Central Catholic (MI)	Beat St. Thomas Houston
43	44	Charlotte Catholic (NC)
44	26	Cumberland Valley (PA)
45	45	Corona Centennial (CA)
46	46	St. John's Prep (MA)
47	27	Bishop Shanahan (PA)	Lost to West Shore (C50)
48	47	Westside (NE)
49	48	Belmont HS (MA)
50	49	Simsbury (CT)
Goff Rugby Report Boys Single-School Rankings Week 8