This is a combination of highlights mostly from tournaments that ended before Christmas plus others that just ended earlier this week before New Year’s Eve. We begin with the 68-point outing by Santa Fe Springs St. Paul’s Will Bryson III. It’s a record for large schools in the San Gabriel Valley. Other boys include a...
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Tony Franks: State FB Coach of Year
St. Mary’s of Stockton program leader for 27 years had a team in 2025 that knew how to come from behind to win playoff games and capped it off with its first CIF state title. He’s the first State Coach of the Year from Stockton since 1943 and he’s the sixth from the CIF Sac-Joaquin […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
La Habra’s Frank Mazzotta captured his eighth CIFSS title to tie some legends on an Orange County all-time list and now has been named the state medium schools honoree. For small schools, Rio Hondo Prep’s Mark Carson gets the nod for winning three straight CIFSS titles despite the team having to play in higher and […]
2025 Football Coaching Milestones
For this year, we are going to compile the annual feature on football coaching highlights before we announce the annual state coaches of the year instead of afterwards. We also produce this feature after all of our state coaching record lists have been updated. We’re now getting close to 150 who have won 200 games […]
All-State FB Nominees (Central-LA-SD)
Here is our last of three posts of first draft nomination lists for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is just the first step in a process and players will be added for a second, updated list. The players in this post are from the Central, LA City & San Diego Sections. […]
All-State Football Nominees (CIFSS)
Selecting players for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams is a process for us that includes extensive lists of nominees. This is just the first step in a process and players will be added for a second, updated list. Here is the second of three lists of players considered as nominees for the […]
FINAL Medium/Small State FB Rankings
Here’s the final order of top California high school football teams that have been deemed medium or small schools for the 2025 season. Bakersfield Christian hung on to the top medium spot despite loss in CIF D2-AA state final. Sonora and Rio Hondo Prep also still ended No. 1 and No. 2 for small schools...
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
Our final state rankings for each season take some extra time as we go over everything seen and reported since these won’t ever change and will be the rankings that go into our archives of final state rankings for every season since 1975. After the CIF state final results, Mission Viejo gets a bump to...
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (26-75)
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings out to 75 teams instead of just doing a bubble list. CIF state title game results also helped some other teams come up at the end, including Serra of San Mateo, Clovis and Los Gatos. We also had to figure out where best to place CIF...
