This is how the season looked after it was completed in 1994. This is the second of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
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Girls BB All-State Nominees (Updated)
Starting this week, it will be time to begin selecting the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls basketball. We already posted a first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state girls basketball nominees nearly three weeks ago, and now we’re doing a second, updated list. More players were added and some...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Southern California’s Mission League opened up on Friday with not one but two big upsets (if you can call them that) as No. 11 Serra of Gardena fell to Loyola while No. 13 Alemany was stunned in the closing seconds by defending league champion Bishop Amat. State No. 2 St. John Bosco didn’t lose, but […]
FB Preview: Eight Burning Questions
We’ll have more of our preseason all-section, all-area and all-county teams to come (Orange County already done) plus preseason Top 50 team rankings, preseason all-state and more, but here’s a general overview of the upcoming 2019 California high school football season. We also have done an early preseason top 10 that has been input into […]
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This second group of elite teams leads off with Calabasas, which is continuing to build toward a CIF state title. We also had a hard time coming up with a team to start out highest in the CIF Central Coast Section, so we just stuck two of them in this group right next to each […]
State Super 55: No. 31 to No. 40
Last year’s team at Corona Centennial debuts at No. 31 in the all-time rankings and begs the question of how high would the Huskies have been if they could have won that last game? California’s first 15-0 team from Bishop Amat plus a Long Beach Poly squad that ended its season with a 102-0 win...
State Super 55: No. 41 to No. 55
St. John Bosco’s 2016 CIF state champions, despite two losses, are going onto this list at No. 41. Part of the reason for that is how highly regarded Mater Dei was at the time of Bosco’s avenging win in the CIF Southern Section D1 final. Both teams from famous 1956 CIFSS title game that drew...
NEW State Top 25 FB Rankings
Bishop Amat earns return engagement among state’s elite after overtime win over previous No. 16 Chaminade. The Eagles don’t drop out, but both Valley Christian (San Jose) and Long Beach Poly do to make room for Bishop Amat plus unbeaten Rancho Bernardo of San Diego. Monte Vista of Danville also inches up to No. 10...