While I agree, it made me curious so I looked into it, mainly to see where a historical national power team would rank against Illinois teams during a down year.
Putting Moeller up against the state champs in 6A for all of the years mentioned above, minus 2020. I put them in 6A because the enrollment number I could find for Moeller was 891 and applying the 1.65 multiplier Illinois uses puts their enrollment at 1,470. Below are the results according to Cal Preps, for what that's worth.
2015
Moeller 26
Montini 20
2016
Prairie Ridge 41
Moeller 20
2017
Prairie Ridge 34
Moeller 27
2018
Cary-Grove 24
Moeller 19
2019
ESL 46
Moeller 14
Given these projections they would have only been dominated in 2016 and 2019 and I feel like it's safe to say that a down Moeller team would still be competitive in Illinois. Yes, they could have, and likely would have been knocked off prior to the title game I wasn't going to reconstruct the entire bracket.
After this pointless bit of boredom on my part I still say MC by at least 2 scores.
