Category Archives: CIF State Bowl Rankings
NEW NorCal/SoCal CIF Bowl Projections
There’s been a lot of movement on both sides of our board looking ahead to the CIF announcing on Sunday which teams will be playing each other in this year’s regional & state title football games. Plus, we have six new teams listed in the north with a whopping 12 in the south. It still […]
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
The first teams earning berths will be coming this week from the CIF North Coast Section & CIF San Diego Section Open Divisions. The losing team in the NCS, however, will not be finished for the season but it will be in San Diego. The NorCal board stayed the same with no projected section champions...
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
All teams on these bowl boards are now in section playoffs after the regular season ended last week in the CIF North Coast, Central Coast and Northern Sections. The projected top seeds from the CCS didn’t happen after St. Francis at the top, so some of those bowl picks have changed in the north. Four...
NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
It’s been nearly two years since we took a look at possible CIF regional bowl matchups before they’ve happened. We couldn’t do it any earlier this season because more CIF sections, especially the Southern Section, have gone to playoff formats in which it’s not known for sure which divisions all of the teams will be […]
2008 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
1994, ’08, ’81 Season Replays Week 13
This is how the season looked after the 13th week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. And at this point in those seasons section playoff finalists were getting done and tough decisions in some cases were looming. The...
CIF NorCal/SoCal Bowl Matchups
These are the choices that the CIF has made for this year’s regional bowl games after all of the CIF section championship results came in on Saturday night. The big news is that 14-0 Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta, the CIF Southern Section Division 10 champion that would have been in the 3AA to 3A […]
NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
There are lots of changes from last week’s board due to some upsets, looking at the map closer and some real juicy matchups coming to light such as possibility of longtime rivals St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs and Loyola of Los Angeles playing each other. CIF associate executive director Brian Seymour said on Tuesday...
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
We have input this week from the CIF itself about this year’s matchups, thanks to a conversation on Tuesday with associate executive director Brian Seymour. New teams on the board include Lincoln of San Diego, Whitney of Rocklin, Bakersfield Christian, San Dimas, El Monte and Bishop. We also have had to move up McClymonds into...
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
Every team listed is now officially either a No. 1 seed or high seed in its section playoffs. The big change is putting Camarillo on the board for the CIF Southern Section Division IV playoffs. We also are agreeing with the CIF North Coast Section seeding of Clayton Valley (Concord) at the top of its...



