Author Archives: Mark Tennis
State TOP 30 Weekend Scoreboard
Preseason state No. 1 St. John Bosco opens with road loss in Las Vegas on Friday in matchup of top two teams in most national rankings. Most of the top-ranked teams in Southern California are starting their seasons this week, but for Northern California they will all be starting next week. Two of the San […]
Preseason All-NCS Football Teams
De La Salle, Pittsburg and Cardinal Newman lead the way in a section that gets going a week later than most schools in Southern California. There’s a few other schools — San Ramon Valley and Acalanes — that have more than one player written up as well. This is the next-to-last installment in our annual...
TOP 5 CIF Northern Section FB Players
While we are not able to provide an extensive CIF Northern Section preseason first and second teams this year, we do have a list of top five players at the start of the season. This is based on projected team success, stats from last year, recruiting service player rankings and more. For a look at […]
TOP 10 San Diego Section FB Players
While we are not able to provide an extensive CIF San Diego Section preseason first and second teams this year, we do have a list of top 10 players at the start of the season. This is based on projected team success, stats from last year, recruiting service player rankings and more. For a look […]
These Schools Know How to Win
All of our state football records for categories such as schools with the most all-time wins, schools with the best all-time records, schools with multiple CIF state championships and other categories have been updated prior to the start of the 2026 season. Bakersfield and Long Beach Poly finally got another school to join them with...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The era of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco dominating the state ended last season, but that’s only because another Trinity League team stepped up to win the CIF Open Division state title. The state still looks like it will be led again by the top six to seven teams in the CIF Southern Section, […]
Preseason State 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Here’s the place to go to find our breakdowns of the teams we’re going with that also are inside our preseason state rankings to begin the 2026 football season. We start out with the final team from the Trinity League, we have the CIF D2-AA state champs from last season and we have a team […]
Asterisk Talley: State Athlete of the Year
Since she competed as a Chowchilla High girls golfer during the 2025-26 school year, golfing phenom Asterisk Talley is eligible to be the Girls State Athlete of the Year. Who knows what’s in store for the current senior for the 2026-27 year, but if she’s eligible why wouldn’t the top-ranked amateur female golfer in the […]
More State Girls Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Asterisk Talley of Chowchilla (a D3 junior), we have others selected as the best among girls athletes for seniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D4 and D5) for the 2025-26 school year. We have two-sport athletes for seniors/D1 and for D2 and a four-sport athlete for D4. […]
Preseason All-Southern Section Teams
Since the CIFSS is so massive and loaded with talent at schools in the Trinity League plus at other schools like Corona Centennial, Sierra Canyon, Mission Viejo, Tustin, Crean Lutheran and more, we have a first team and a second team of players who are written up for this feature plus a third team list...
