Category Archives: Preseason coverage
Preseason All-State FB Teams
A lot of teams have played a game and injuries are already happening but we have reached 43 straight years of doing a preseason all-state team and we wanted to wait until finishing all of the section teams before doing those all-state teams this year. Each player already has been written up within our annual […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Teams
This is the final one of these preseason teams in our annual series. It’s still preseason for a good many teams in the state since their seasons haven’t begun. Defending Open Division champion Archbishop Riordan has five players on our preseason All-CCS first team. That is not as many, though as last year’s D1 winners...
Preseason All-NCS Football Teams
De La Salle, Pittsburg and Cardinal Newman lead the way in a section that gets going a week later than most schools in Southern California. There’s a few other schools — San Ramon Valley and Acalanes — that have more than one player written up as well. This is the next-to-last installment in our annual...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The era of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco dominating the state ended last season, but that’s only because another Trinity League team stepped up to win the CIF Open Division state title. The state still looks like it will be led again by the top six to seven teams in the CIF Southern Section, […]
Preseason State 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Here’s the place to go to find our breakdowns of the teams we’re going with that also are inside our preseason state rankings to begin the 2026 football season. We start out with the final team from the Trinity League, we have the CIF D2-AA state champs from last season and we have a team […]
Preseason All-Southern Section Teams
Since the CIFSS is so massive and loaded with talent at schools in the Trinity League plus at other schools like Corona Centennial, Sierra Canyon, Mission Viejo, Tustin, Crean Lutheran and more, we have a first team and a second team of players who are written up for this feature plus a third team list...
Preseason All-Central Section FB Team
Transfers help Garces of Bakersfield land the most players on this squad, but defending D1-AA section champion Central East has a bunch of top returnees as well and still looks like a strong favorite to three-peat. Buchanan of Clovis, Clovis West of Fresno and Liberty of Bakersfield also among those teams with more than one...
Preseason All-Sac-Joaquin Sec Team
Folsom may be the big favorite to win another SJS D1 title and has five players on this 30-man squad, but Grant of Sacramento also had to have five and may have seven to eight D1 bound players by the time the season is over. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills (beat Grant in the...
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
We head to greater Los Angeles County to begin our series of preseason all-section football teams around the state with a look at the CIF L.A. City Section. The section has shown some positive strides after some rough post-COVID seasons, but two coaching giants within the section won’t be roaming the sidelines this fall. Will...
Folsom’s Larson leads NorCal WRs
The school known for having prolific quarterbacks over the years also has had huge success with those who are catching the passes. This year’s WR leader for the Bulldogs, Rob Larson, will have the unique experience of catching balls from a big-time prospect one year ago in Ryder Lyons and this year will be doing […]
