Category Archives: football
25 Years Ago: September 11, 2001
High school football teams on that horrible week 25 years ago today adapted and reflected and many of them will never forget what happened since several of them had former players who were killed. We take a look back through magazine articles we edited that year for Student Sports Magazine. We had a writer at […]
State Records, Stat Stars & More
Here’s where to go for updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records, where we’ll post individual stat star highlights plus perhaps some comments or two on the hottest topics sweeping through social media. We start with our take on schools tightening their access to their sidelines this season. We also have new leaders for...
State Football Players of the Week
We had two QBs in Southern California that threw for seven touchdowns in a game last week, so we had to pick one of them for the SoCal Offensive Player of the Week honor. That’s the way it goes sometimes when there are no ties in team rankings or individual honors and haven’t been in […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
It’s the same teams in the top 10 for this week, but there are changes as De La Salle, Orange Lutheran and Folsom go up and Mission Viejo has to drop to 10th. Santa Margarita maintains top ranking. The biggest movers, meanwhile, are led by Mission Hills of San Marcos (up eight spots), Archbishop Riordan...
NorCal In State Spotlight for Week 3
With two of the top teams in Southern California playing on the road up in Northern California on Friday and with state No. 1 Santa Margarita playing a team it was supposed to crush (it did) and with No. 3 Corona Centennial on a bye, it was a rare night in which pretty much all […]
The 10,000-Yard, 100-TD Club
It takes playing very early in one’s high school varsity career and being very good for a quarterback to either pass for 10,000 yards in a career or pass for 100 career touchdowns. As a celebration to updating all of our state passing records, here’s an all-time list of all of those quarterbacks who have […]
State Records, Stat Stars & More
Here’s where to go for updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records, where we’ll post individual stat star highlights plus perhaps some comments or two on the hottest topics sweeping through social media. We’re starting with a look at the top 20 still active winningest football coaches, led by Jim Benkert of Simi Valley...
State Football Players of the Week
After the first full week of games for schools all across the state, our first honorees for 2026 season come from Culver City, West Hills and San Diego for Southern California. For Northern California, we have winners from Sutter, Antioch (a freshman) and Morgan Hill. Go inside for a free look at what these players […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
Defending CIF Open Division state champ Santa Margarita goes back to the top after last week’s win over Corona Centennial. Preseason No. 1 St. John Bosco only drops to No. 2. Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa gets a bump after going into overtime with preseason No. 7 Folsom. We also have big rises for San...
