It’s the week of the CIF Southern Section Division I quarterfinals so naturally there are several teams in the rankings that had to drop a few spots this week to account for those matchups, including Pittsburg, Narbonne and Oakdale. Long Beach Poly and Orange Lutheran are the two teams among that group that were jumped...
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Stat Stars, State Records & More
Starting this weekend just about every football team in the state will be playing league games for the next few weeks. It’s a good time therefore to rank the state’s top 10 best leagues (No. 1 is obvious) and go over some of the state’s longest current league winning streaks. Check this week’s column for...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
With all of the byes and with No. 7 Folsom, No. 9 Chaminade and No. 10 Calabasas all winning in showdown games against other ranked opponents, there weren’t any changes at the top of this week’s rankings until we got down to No. 15. Upland was the biggest mover, going up from No. 24 to...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Trinity League dominance gets more pronounced every week and this time the super league now has all six teams in the top 15. We have Orange Lutheran, Santa Margarita, JSerra and Servite at No. 12 through No. 15 but really any order may make sense. The other big move this week was jumping up CIF...
California Super Bowl Alums
It’s a lower total than usual for former California high school players in the Super Bowl, but the state still ranks first in the nation since Texas and Florida also are lower than usual. With QB Cam Newton leading the way, Georgia probably has its best year ever and almost ties the Golden State. RELATED […]
Week 6 State Top 25 Scoreboard
Both No. 1 De La Salle and No. 9 Long Beach Poly (playing next week) win by same 48-0 score. It’s not an upset that No. 8 Serra of Gardena edged No. 6 Bishop Amat, but it sure was that No. 10 Alemany and No. 11 Bellarmine both lost. Bellarmine’s loss also gets the CIF […]
Week 5: SoCal CIF Bowl Rankings
This is the expanded version from the list updates that were posted on Monday and is presented for Gold Club members. To join our Gold Club so you can go through these breakdowns every week, CLICK HERE....
Week 1 State Rankings Updates
Mater Dei flip-flops with Servite in the No. 3 and No. 4 positions after weekend results with Helix and Oceanside moving up to No. 15 and No. 16 and Bakersfield joining the first 10. First No. 1 teams for CIF bowl divisions, meanwhile, are St. John Bosco, De La Salle, Rancho Verde, Clayton Valley, Newbury […]
Preseason FB: All-Orange County
This is the seventh preseason all-section or all-area football team we have compiled and covers schools from the Orange County region of the CIF Southern Section. The OC is loaded with juicy receivers and quarterbacks, so many we just couldn’t fit all of them onto the first team. Attention all Orange County football fans: We […]