Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Santa Margarita State Team of Year 2025
While the Mater Dei-St. John Bosco era of dominance in California has ended at nine years, the Trinity League that those two teams play in has just produced a different parochial school to rule at the top of the state for another season. And the way that Santa Margarita played on both sides of the […]
More State FB Teams of Year
Centennial earns top public school recognition for the third straight year. Bakersfield Christian may have lost in D2-AA state final, but it is medium schools and did enough in its last two games to be Medium Schools and D2 State Team of the Year. For small schools and D4, as expected, it’s 15-0 Sonora. We […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
Santa Margarita completes dominant playoff run with big win vs De La Salle to win its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday at Saddleback College. The Eagles (11-3) just got better and better and better in every playoff game. It also capped a day in which two other undefeated teams had their seasons […]
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 […]
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...
Enhanced Regional FB Matchups
We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with numerous details plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. Our own projections were 100 percent correct for Southern California down through D3-AA. Note: This is a post for Gold Club members...
SJS Football Title Game Recaps
Friday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section football championships at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento led by Folsom winning its fifth straight Division I title. League rival Oak Ridge gave the Bulldogs some tough moments, but they never trailed. Woodcreek, Sutter & Calaveras also captured their first-ever section crowns. Note: We won’t be able to duplicate these recaps for […]
