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...
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FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (26-75)
This group features the other two teams from Orange County’s Alpha League, Los Alamitos and San Clemente, plus we have some other CIF Southern Section squads getting final boosts as a result of Palos Verdes winning the CIF D2-A state title by a large margin vs previously unbeaten Twelve Bridges. The Sea Kings also go...
All-State FB Nominees (Central-LA-SD)
We continue on in the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is the second of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are from the CIF Central, LA City and San Diego Sections. The NorCal list (except the Central […]
Mater Dei State Team of Year 2024
Here is the official updated list of the California high school football state teams of the year that goes back for more than 120 years with Mater Dei of Santa Ana now added for 2024. Since the Monarchs also were No. 1 in the pandemic season when there were no section/state playoffs, it’s now four […]
More State FB Teams of Year
This was one of the hardest final State Small Schools Team of the Year selections in more than 40 years of doing one at the end of a season. Corona Centennial also gets another State Public School Team of the Year honor, Newbury Park already had wrapped it up for medium schools and we have...
CIF State Football Title Game MVPs
Some are easy, some are hard and we obviously have to do this without seeing all of the games in person. But we have an MVP for every CIF state championship game played since 2006 when the current event was renewed for the first time since 1927. The tradition continues from Dash Beierly of Mater […]
More CIF Saturday State Finals
We still have MVPs to pick for every CIF state championship game (we have one for every game played since 2006), but here are recaps of the title tilts played on Saturday at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium. Two of these games went into overtime, one will go down as […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
It’s another CIF Open Division state title for Mater Dei, but this time the NorCal representative, De La Salle of Concord, put up a fight in the third quarter to make it interesting…at least for a few minutes. Monarchs gain their fifth CIF state title since 2017. Edison of Huntington Beach and Palos Verdes of […]
Friday CIF State Football Finals
San Diego Lincoln makes it two CIF D1-AA state titles in three seasons with 28-26 victory over Pittsburg. We also have what we saw in the CIF D2-AA state championship win by Grant of Sacramento over Pacifica of Oxnard. Others winners were Frontier of Bakersfield and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma at Long Beach […]
All-State Football Nominees (NorCal)
We begin the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is the first of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are from the CIF sections in Northern California (except the Central Section). The Central, LA City & San Diego […]
