Since we’ve always gone by head-to-head results, it’s easy to now put Santa Margarita with the No. 1 state ranking for the first time in school history. After their win over previous No. 1 Sierra Canyon, they have wins over the other three teams also still going in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
San Clemente now leads this group after just missing out on the top 25. We also have nice jumps for Oak Ridge, St. Mary’s of Stockton, Edison of Huntington Beach, Chino Hills, and more. In addition, we have five newcomers this week: Mt. Miguel of Spring Valley, San Marcos, Rocklin, Acalanes of Lafayette and Monterey...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
There will be a new No. 1 atop the state next week and based on what happened on Friday night in the CIF Southern Section D1 quarterfinals we’re pretty sure which team that has to be. In very stormy, rainy conditions, No. 1 and unbeaten Sierra Canyon’s loss to No. 6 Santa Margarita wasn’t that […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
One of the final regular season state leader positions switched after the CCS, NCS and Northern sections ended the regular season last week. The rest held steady. We also had Ferndale breaking a regular season state team scoring record by one point. Individually, the week’s best included 450 yards passing and seven TDs from Lancaster...
CIF Regional Bowl Game Projections
We are off and running toward this year’s CIF regional football championship games, which will determine which teams play each other for state titles on Dec. 12-13 at Fullerton High, Buena Park High and Saddleback College. Now that every CIF section has playoff brackets to look at (couldn’t do that last week with some sections […]
State Football Players of the Week
As the funnel begins to narrow as the playoffs in almost every one of the 10 CIF sections in the state is beginning to halve the field of teams still in action, we still not only found some hidden talent that gets statewide honors to go with local kudos, but we even had some entries […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Most of the teams in this first group of state rankings writeups didn’t play this past weekend, but some did and one of the biggest wins in school history was recorded by Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. The Crusaders were not able to move up from No. 11 in the state, but there were some...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There a lot of changes within this group for this week due to the various top teams already playing each other in the first round of the CIF Southern Section D2 and D3 playoffs. Big movers include Vista Murrieta of Murrieta (up eight spots), Bishop Amat of La Puente (up 11 spots) and Edison of...
SJS Bowls: Kids Just Want to Play
Will the first-ever bowl games played at the CIF section level in the state help with competitive matchups in the early round of playoffs? Some but not that much. Will they feel the same as a playoff game? It had elements of it, but we didn’t think so. They are like college bowl games in […]
