Category Archives: Preseason coverage
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 42nd consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. We have first team, second team, and third team. Most of the players already have been written up within our annual tour of the state through preseason teams from CIF sections plus more than one from the Southern Section. Note: […]
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
After the CCS up north, we go to greater Los Angeles County in our series of preseason all-section or all-area teams around the state with a look at the CIF L.A. City Section. There is great change in the proud section after Marine League power Narbonne of Harbor City was stripped of its 2024 section...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
It’s a parade of Archbishop Riordan players on this squad (especially on offense), but St. Francis of Mountain View has the most on defense. Valley Christian linemen and three from Sacred Heart Cathedral also have cracked the lineup. The CCS is dominated by the West Catholic Athletic League, but some other players from schools like...
Preseason Long Beach/South Bay Team
A little more than a third of the players from this region of the state in this feature are from preseason state No. 2 St. John Bosco. Serra of Gardena also has multiple players written up as well as Palos Verdes, Downey and Leuzinger of Lawndale. Note: These preseason all-section or all-area teams are done...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The questions about teams beyond the top two spots of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco will begin to get answered very quickly with big games coming up next week between No. 4 Mission Viejo and No. 5 Santa Margarita plus No. 6 Folsom hosting No. 13 Grant (Sacramento). There are other obvious top teams […]
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (26-50)
Last-second transfers can move up a team in these rankings, which helped Clovis in the Central Section move up a few spots from where we were going to place it. This group is led off by Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills, and the Trojans are playing No. 32 Frontier of Bakersfield in their first […]
Preseason CIF San Diego Sec FB Team
Defending CIF D1-AA state champ Lincoln has put itself into a spot in which it should be No. 1 in the section until it loses to another section team. The Hornets also have plenty of players featured on this team. Cathedral Catholic seems to have even more key players back and another team coming up...
Preseason CIFSS Inland Empire Team
Centennial of Corona is looking to be the state’s public school team of the year for the third straight season and will have seven preseason all-IE players on hand to help those odds. That kind of dominance was expected, but the team with the second most players featured on this team is Chaparral of Temecula....
Preseason Central Section FB Team
The defending D1AA section champion Central East Bengals (known as Central Grizzlies before) are loaded with returning players and have the most written up in this feature. Last year’s D3AA CIF state champions from Frontier of Bakersfield also look formidable and are not far behind. Tulare, Clovis East and Clovis also are among others with...
All State Individual Records Updated
We just went ahead and finished updating all individual state football records in the last few days. The most attention this season will be on Newbury Park’s Brady Smigiel moving toward the top of the all-time passing & total offense lists. And making it more impactful is that the players he may be passing on […]
