De La Salle beat Mount Carmel...

...over the weekend for the first time since 1995. (I know; I called the school. And, no, I don't have a life.) Now if you don't have a calculator handy that was 22 years ago, or four years before any of Friday night's players were even born. So this is a big deal for the alma mater of the two Mayor Daleys, which is 5-2 on the year. And Mount Carmel, whom I saw play Loyola earlier in the season, is now 4-3. Huh?

But that's not all. Al Raby is 6-1, while Simeon is only 4-3. Wheaton North is now 6-1, but Wheaton Warrenville South is 1-6. Buffalo Grove is 6-1; Elk Grove Village is 0-7. St. Ignatius? 6-1. Brother Rice? 2-5. Carmel? 0-7. And Fremd is 1-6, and Grant and York are both 0-7. And that's not to mention all the schools that dropped football. This is some topsy-turvy year, isn't it?

On to the rankings. (MaxPreps was a little slow this week.) Naperville Central (5-2) was demoted in the Trib and MaxPreps after its 44-41 loss to archrival Naperville North (5-2). And in the Sun-Times, Nazareth (6-1) dropped out of the top ten after getting creamed by Marist, 42-0. Also in MaxPreps, Lake Zurich vaulted nine spots after blanking Stevenson (5-2), 28-0, and Marist supplanted Phillips (7-0) in the top ten after the Wildcats' unconvincing 42-28 victory over Raby. (Some might call that "taking care of business." Whatever.) Let's get to those rankings, shall we?

WEEK EIGHT (All teams undefeated unless otherwise noted.)

Tribune:

1. Lincoln-Way East
2. Maine South (6-1)
3. Prairie Ridge
4. Phillips
5. Loyola (6-1)
6. Glenbard West (6-1)
7. Marist
8. Homewood-Flossmoor (6-1)
9. Lake Zurich
10. Barrington

Sun-Times:

1. Lincoln-Way East
2. Prairie Ridge
3. Maine South (6-1)
4. Phillips
5. Loyola (6-1)
6. Marist
7. Glenbard West (6-1)
8. Lake Zurich
9. Homewood-Flossmoor (6-1)
10. Barrington

MaxPreps:

1. Lincoln-Way East
2. Prairie Ridge
3. Lake Zurich
4. Barrington
5. Maine South (6-1)
6. Homewood-Flossmoor (6-1)
7. Huntley (6-1)
8. Marist
9. Rochester
10. East St. Louis (6-1)