Category Archives: CIF State Championships
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the choices from among those schools considered large-size and medium for the 2018 season. Our medium schools honoree started out at a small school, but has now won two CIF state titles in the last three seasons. Since this year’s overall State Coach of the Year is from a school we classify as […]
Final State FB Ranks By Divisions
No. 1 teams for the 2018 season according to our traditional five-division state breakdowns are Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D1), Lawndale (D2), Menlo-Atherton of Atherton (D3), McClymonds of Oakland (D4) and Hilmar (D5). Two of these schools are No. 1 for the second straight year while two of them are No. 1 in the...
FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Folsom doesn’t move up from No. 5 after CIF D1-AA state title win and then this week it’s reported that head coach Kris Richardson is leaving to become an assistant at Sac State. Cathedral Catholic doesn’t win in overtime against Folsom, but does move up from No. 8 to No. 7 in the final rankings....
FINAL State Top 50 FB (26-50)
Teams that lost to eventual CIF state champions tend to do well in the final rankings and that is the case this season for Pittsburg, Corona del Mar, Villa Park and Cardinal Newman, who all get moved up this week. State champions Menlo-Atherton (No. 41) and Wilcox of Santa Clara (No. 43) also are in...
CIF State Champions (All 14 & MVPs)
Here’s our annual one-stop home for every CIF state football title game played for the 2018 season. Check here for an MVP selection for each game as well. We have our first-ever two-time MVP since the modern CIF state championships began in 2006 (after a break since 1927) and we have a new all-time single-game […]
CIF Saturday State Finals
In possibly the last chance for a CIF North Coast Section Open Division runner-up team to win a CIF state title, Liberty of Brentwood makes the most of it with win against Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth on Saturday night at Cerritos College for the CIF D1-A state crown. Earlier at Cerritos, Lawndale captured its first […]
CIF Friday State Finals
Cathedral Catholic of San Diego almost pulls off an upset with a perfect game plan, but falls to Folsom 21-14 in overtime in the Division 1-AA state championship at Cerritos College. In the Division 2-AA state title game, Grace Brethren of Simi Valley erases memories of a loss in the state finals last season in […]
CIF Football Finals: Picks & Previews
Go inside for a look at each of the 10 CIF state championship games coming up this weekend with a predicted score for each one. We went 9-4 in our 13 choices last year and beat the computer, which was 8-5. We also have included a lot of historical facts and figures for a lot...
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings
Since this will be the next-to-last State Top 50 football rankings and we have a majority of teams listed as season complete, we’ll do this week’s feature in one post instead of two. Next week’s final State Top 50 will be two and with more extensive breakdowns of each team. For this week, the CIF...
Monarch Reign Extends To Year Two
Mater Dei of Santa Ana collects its second consecutive CIF Open Division state title with 35-21 triumph over one-time nemesis De La Salle of Concord on Saturday night at Cerritos College. It also will give the Monarchs a share of the mythical national title for the second straight year but may not be unanimous like […]
