With the CIF Open Division state final not until Saturday of this week, the main changes to this week’s next-to-last rankings of the season are at No. 9 where Folsom moves up one spot and then a few places further down there is upward movement for Cathedral Catholic, Central East of Fresno and Pacifica of...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
On the eve of playing No. 21 St. Mary’s of Stockton for CIF D2-AA state title, Bakersfield Christian gets jumped to No. 28 in our next to last State TOP 50 of the season. Clovis also gets a rise along with some others. Toward the bottom, both small school teams that are playing for the...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
These are the first rankings for the 2025-26 regular season. Among the Top 10, only one drops out of that range and it’s a shocker as 11-time CIF state champ Mater Dei clings to a state ranking (but no longer in the top 25) while looking to finish in the Top 3 of the vaunted...
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
After a night of “AA” regional finals, the CIF regional finals were held on Saturday in the “A” divisions, led by NorCal 1-A champion Central East of Fresno and SoCal 1-A champion Pacifica of Oxnard. Both Sonora (14-0) and Rio Hondo Prep (15-0) also won in 2-A region finals as what we’d call legit small […]
Medium/Small School State FB Ranks
With the regional bowl games set for this weekend, we’re doing one more installment of these rankings to set up the final rankings that will be done after next week’s CIF state championships. It could be a perfect storm for the CIF D2-A state final if Sonora and Rio Hondo Prep are playing each other...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
This is the week when we start adding top outings for boys and girls hoops to go with the end of the season in football. The end also is near for the state career scoring record set just last February by Santa Maria St. Joseph’s Tounde Yessoufou as Inglewood’s Jason Crowe Jr. is averaging 40...
State Football Players of the Week
This week it’s the final narrowing of the funnel, as traditionally it’s also the last week for the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Player of the Week honors with all of the CIF section championship games. We’re switching to basketball (boys & girls) next week. For our final week, not only did we uncover some hidden […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With Santa Margarita, Folsom & Pittsburg all winning section titles, there were no changes in this week’s rankings down to No. 13 and No. 14, which are now owned by Cathedral Catholic and Los Alamitos. Pacifica of Oxnard also jumps seven spots this week with Serra of San Mateo going up by six but not...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group is now led by CIF Southern Section D2 semifinalist Murrieta Valley. The big news is that since the CIF put small school, small town Sonora up into the D2-A regional finals, we have done the same by moving up the 13-0 Wildcats into these rankings. See why No. 40 Bakersfield Christian is now...
