Every year, it seems Pleasant Valley (Chico), Sutter and East Nicolaus control the fortunes in the top three divisions in the Northern Section CIF. Those three will be strong once again, but rising Foothill (Palo Cedro) and Shasta (Redding) aren’t far off to push for top spot. Defending D3 section champ West Valley (Cottonwood) reloads...
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Preseason All-CCS Football Team
Valley Christian of San Jose, which is loaded with top returnees from last year’s CIF D1-A NorCal regional bowl runner-up, is clearly the team to beat and leads the way with five members of this year’s preseason All-CCS squad. Others landing more than one player on this team include Serra of San Mateo, St. Francis...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
It has been no secret that Marin Catholic (Kentfield), Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) and Rancho Cotate (Rohnert Park) have been the class of the Redwood Empire portion of the CIF North Coast Section for recent years. But even after a realignment that sees the NCS going to a seven division format plus an 8-man division,...
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
Cathedral Catholic is the defending Open Division champion and probably should be regarded as the favorite to start 2019, but arch-rival St. Augustine actually has more players on this year’s preseason squad of honors candidates with four. Other schools with multiple players written up include Lincoln of San Diego and Mission Hills of San Marcos....
Preseason All-Northern Sec FB Team
The Redding area of the north has been on a lot people’s minds in recent weeks due to the destructive and deadly Carr Fire. Shasta High, which played in the CIF D3-AA state championship last season, was used for many services and we assume many students lost their homes. Shasta still has a few players...
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
There were so many outstanding returning running backs that for this season we had to place four of them on offense with just one wide receiver, although there are those on defense and multi-purpose who can catch the ball as well. Schools with more than one player written up are Helix of La Mesa, Eastlake...
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
This will be the sixth straight year that we are going to tour the state starting from now until the start of the 2018 football season by releasing preseason all-section, all-area and all-county football teams from eight of the 10 CIF sections (with San Francisco and Oakland included with other sections). We’re also once again...
SF-Oakland Sec FB Players To Watch
We weren’t completely, 100 percent done with our tour of the state with preseason all-section, all-area teams when we got done with the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valley teams last week before the first games of the 2017 season were played. For that, we need to touch on a few key returnees for the […]
Preseason All-NCS East Bay
Our final stop for Northern California on our annual tour of the state’s top preseason players and teams based on a selection of key players is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This is the place where De La Salle of Concord has ruled since 1992. That should be the case...
Preseason All-Northern Sec FB Team
It’s all about Sutter this year in the state’s northernmost CIF section. Five Huskies are among those on this year’s preseason all-section squad and they return an exceptional core from team that gave Oakdale a much tougher battle in the CIF NorCal D3-A bowl game than the Mustangs had in the state final. For CIF...
