Here’s a look at the top 230 ranked teams in the state that also have been given our own grade of plus, minus or same compared to each team’s preseason expectations. We also have teams included from every CIF section in the state. Note: This is a post for Gold Club members only on CalHiSports.com....
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
As expected, St. John Bosco returns to the No. 1 ranking and we also drop previous No. 1 Mater Dei behind the team the Monarchs lost to. Mission Hills of San Marcos (up three spots) and Damien of La Verne (up four spots) also gain a lot of ground. New teams to this group from...
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 […]
State Coach of Year: Andy Rojo
The St. John Bosco baseball program reached up to the level of success this season that the school has had in football and boys basketball and now baseball head coach Andy Rojo is a State Coach of the Year just like Jason Negro in football (2019) and Matt Dunn in basketball (2024). Rojo’s team made […]
St. John Bosco: State Team of Year
Bellflower school has ended No. 1 in the state in football four times (all since 2013), but has never finished No. 1 in any other sport we cover until this week. The Braves won the CIF SoCal D1 baseball title last Saturday to add to their CIF Southern Section D1 title from the previous week […]
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
There was consideration for the first unbeaten team through the CIF San Diego Section playoffs in history to be moved up to No. 1 after Corona’s loss to St. John Bosco of Bellflower. But when the Braves later beat Santa Margarita to win the CIF Southern Section D1 crown, it had to be them at...
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
The first big upset of the 2025 CIF section playoffs around the state sees a team that has been in the top five, La Mirada, go down in the super-loaded Southern Section D1 bracket. This week’s rankings also are impacted by Granada of Livermore beating previous No. 6 De La Salle of Concord in a...
State Coach of Year: Andre Chevalier
For leading his program to its first CIF state championship post-COVID with a unit that wasn’t expected to be there in the preseason, Andre Chevalier of Chatsworth Sierra Canyon has been named the 2025 State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. His third CIF state title didn’t come at the open level, but the […]
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s the eighth time in the last nine seasons that Mater Dei and St. John Bosco finish in the top two slots. The only time they didn’t was 2021 and that No. 2 team, Servite of Anaheim, is going to have two first round NFL draft picks in April. De La Salle also did enough...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
This week’s order for the first 14 gets mixed up after Santa Margarita’s eye-opening 44-8 win over Servite of Anaheim. That forced the Eagles to come back up into the higher reaches of the first 25. Others getting boosts include Clovis East (up two), Murrieta Valley (up three) and St. Mary’s of Stockton (up three)....
