Goff Rugby Report unleashes its first Boys HS Club rankings of 2013-2014 season.

Unfortunately, because of the timing of the season and our launch, it's also the last rankings of the season. Ah well, we temper your disappointment by making th rankings big - 45 teams!

There are, we think, the best 45 multi-school boys teams in the country. For the most part we've gone with ranking the teams based on their performance in major national and regional playoffs - so if Team A beat Team B in March, but lost to Team B in the state semis, then Team B is ranked higher - but we have to extend our evaluations past that simply because many teams don't actually participate in regional or national championships.

So sometimes we rely on common opponents, which can be tricky (Brother Rice beat North Bay in the NIT, who then beat Westerville, who had beaten Brother Rice in the Midwest playoffs). In fact, North Bay is a conundrum to itself as they beat Hayward and Peninsula Green, but are ranked below those teams because both Hayward and Peninsula Green finished stronger.

Hayward, we think, could have challenged for a national title.

Lower down we rely on the relative strength of regions. Sometimes that's just opinion, and sometimes it's based on the performance of the state champion (if your state champion didn't light your territory or the NIT on fire, why should your #2 team be ranked higher?).

Not surprisingly, Cathedral Royal Irish out of Indianapolis is #1, with Santa Monica doing all they needed to do to earn #2. After that, it's a tossup among the next nine teams or so.