Category Archives: CIF State Championships
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 […]
Folsom buries Central with 84 points
Going on the road to Fresno to face 13-0 Central High of Fresno didn’t prove to be roadblock for the Folsom football team in its attempt to repeat as CIF D1-AA state champions. The Bulldogs revved up their engines for an 84-46 win in one of those performances we’ve seen many times in the last […]
DLS vs. MD: History & More
It’s only been five times that the Spartans and Monarchs have played in a football game entering this weekend’s CIF Open Division state championship at Cerritos College. After suffering four losses in as many years when the two began a series in the late 1990s, last year’s CIF Open Division victory by the Monarchs was […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The very top of the final state rankings for this season will be determined on Saturday when No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 3 De La Salle play for the CIF Open Division state title. We may have to wait another week, though, for No. 5 on down as No. 5 Folsom isn’t close to...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The CIF could have gone in several directions for the NorCal 2-A, 3-AA and 3-A bowl games since those teams are bunched together fairly closely no matter how you slice it. For our State Top 50 this week, we went along with those placements for the most part and have put unbeaten San Joaquin Memorial...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
No. 3 De La Salle does its part to set up next week’s CIF Open Division state title showdown vs. No. 1 Mater Dei with 42-7 win over No. 8 and unbeaten Liberty (Brentwood) in North Coast Section Open Division championship. Highest ranked team to lose during the weekend was No. 10 St. Francis (Mountain […]
CIF Bowl Board Update 12/2
Go inside here to see how the NorCal side of the CIF state football championship divisions looks after all Saturday games were completed on December 1. To say we nailed it from the night before would be an understatement: Only the awarding of a bye to Pleasant Valley (Chico) instead of Aptos was all that […]
CIF Bowl Boards 5 (North & South)
With the South board in place and games happening this weekend to determine one state finalist in each division, more of a focus this week is on the north. We could have a big disruption if Valley Christian were to upset St. Francis in the CIF Central Coast Section Open 2 title game and one...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
After the big win over St. John Bosco, Mater Dei takes over at the top of the state, which is where the Monarchs started this season and ended last season. The rest of the top 11 from last week is unchanged, and we didn’t move up Upland that far after it defeated previous No. 12...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group naturally have fallen down from the first 25 and are done for the season with playoff losses. Still, there’s some on the rise, like new No. 28 Wilcox of Santa Clara and new No. 42 South Hills of West Covina. We also have three teams still going...
