Sometimes, the stat star explosions are so crazy and threaten state records that we may bust one out and turn a blurb into a blog post. That happened this week with Woodland pitcher Cooper Hjerpe (see blog posts). There’s still many big-time outings to get spotlighted, including 17 more from baseball and 19 more from...
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Four was a magic number for several teams that went up four positions in this week’s rankings, including Long Beach Poly, Monterey Trail of Elk Grove, Lawndale and Heritage of Menifee. There were two teams, however, that got seven-spot jumps — new No. 33 Wilcox of Santa Clara and new No. 43 Murrieta Valley of...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
It wasn’t playing in front of us that caused Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth to be raised from the bubble to No. 37 as the highest ranked newcomer on this week’s state rankings. It was beating previously ranked Bakersfield 31-7 and doing on the same night that Grace Brethren (also going into this week’s rankings) upset...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Teams on the move the most among this group are Central Catholic of Modesto, Oakdale, Norco and Buchanan of Clovis. Newcomers going in are Bishop Amat of La Puente, La Habra and Serra of San Mateo. Amat and Serra have been in there before this season, but for La Habra it’s the first time this...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Central Catholic goes in for the first time this season at No. 39 after its big win over St. Mary’s of Stockton while Westlake of Westlake Village also debuts fairly high at No. 41 after its victory against Newbury Park. The week’s only other newcomer is Buchanan of Clovis, which is looking like one of...
State Stat Stars of the Week
Lucky number was seven this week for Jacobi Hardy of Long Beach Wilson (seven TDs scored) and for three different QBs (seven TD passes). We also have multiple listings from 83-48 win by Wilcox of Santa Clara over Saratoga and a freshman QB who had six TD passes.
Preseason State Rankings (Divisions)
With the CIF bowl games now in 13 divisions and with it basically impossible to place teams into those divisions in a weekly format, we are resurrecting our traditional five-division state rankings first done in 1975. No. 1 teams to start are De La Salle (D1), Grant of Sacramento (D2), Cathedral Catholic of San Diego […]
