Author Archives: Mark Tennis
Friday CIF State Football Finals
On an incredibly foggy night in Mission Viejo with its All-American quarterback sidelined with an injury, Folsom had no trouble putting down Cathedral Catholic of San Diego in the CIF D1-AA state championship. It’s the sixth CIF state title for the program, which is now one away from the state record. It also became a […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
We have more historical info in our archives than anyone so we have some tidbits on the teams in these games unmatched by anyone else. For the games played at Saddleback College, we have Santa Margarita, Cathedral Catholic, Central East, St. Mary’s of Stockton and Sonora as winners. It’s hard to pick a winner obviously […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With the CIF Open Division state final not until Saturday of this week, the main changes to this week’s next-to-last rankings of the season are at No. 9 where Folsom moves up one spot and then a few places further down there is upward movement for Cathedral Catholic, Central East of Fresno and Pacifica of...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
On the eve of playing No. 21 St. Mary’s of Stockton for CIF D2-AA state title, Bakersfield Christian gets jumped to No. 28 in our next to last State TOP 50 of the season. Clovis also gets a rise along with some others. Toward the bottom, both small school teams that are playing for the...
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
After a night of “AA” regional finals, the CIF regional finals were held on Saturday in the “A” divisions, led by NorCal 1-A champion Central East of Fresno and SoCal 1-A champion Pacifica of Oxnard. Both Sonora (14-0) and Rio Hondo Prep (15-0) also won in 2-A region finals as what we’d call legit small […]
Medium/Small School State FB Ranks
With the regional bowl games set for this weekend, we’re doing one more installment of these rankings to set up the final rankings that will be done after next week’s CIF state championships. It could be a perfect storm for the CIF D2-A state final if Sonora and Rio Hondo Prep are playing each other...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
This is the week when we start adding top outings for boys and girls hoops to go with the end of the season in football. The end also is near for the state career scoring record set just last February by Santa Maria St. Joseph’s Tounde Yessoufou as Inglewood’s Jason Crowe Jr. is averaging 40...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With Santa Margarita, Folsom & Pittsburg all winning section titles, there were no changes in this week’s rankings down to No. 13 and No. 14, which are now owned by Cathedral Catholic and Los Alamitos. Pacifica of Oxnard also jumps seven spots this week with Serra of San Mateo going up by six but not...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group is now led by CIF Southern Section D2 semifinalist Murrieta Valley. The big news is that since the CIF put small school, small town Sonora up into the D2-A regional finals, we have done the same by moving up the 13-0 Wildcats into these rankings. See why No. 40 Bakersfield Christian is now...
