Biggest winners added from Saturday: Cathedral Catholic, Serra (San Mateo) & Folsom. On Friday, in what could be the greatest CIF section semifinals in California history and the first we know of in which all four were the top four ranked teams in the state, No. 1 Mater Dei tops No. 4 Centennial of Corona […]
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Inside State Football Records
An amazing number of current college football quarterbacks, two of them who are among the front-runners for the Heisman Trophy, threw for more than 10,000 yards as high school quarterbacks in California. We go over all them and not just the ones at Alabama, Ole Miss and Georgia. It’s also a good time to remind […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
The college town of Chico, the Island City of Alameda and the Valley metropolis of Fresno are the NorCal stops this week, and in Southern California it’s the metro LA area, the Inland Empire and the far west reaches of Los Angeles County. We remind readers one of the things we do with the Players […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
There are no new top 10 teams this week, but the order has changed with Folsom, Norco and Los Alamitos up one with Sierra Canyon ninth after its loss to No. 5 Centennial. There are several teams that have jumped into this first part of the rankings, led by new No. 21 Rocklin and new...
Preseason STATE TOP 50 (Part 2)
This group of potentially great teams from California starts with a look at two of the Lincoln high schools — from San Diego and Stockton — placed right next to each other. There are other schools in this mix who may have a bit more to replace than those in the first 25 and some […]
Preseason State TOP 50 (Part 1)
These are the ones with more than 45 years of work behind them, but it’s so different for this spring season. Factors such as which teams are playing which teams and building a consensus of those who do local rankings will be more important in compiling these rankings than when it’s known there are going […]
Which schools can play each other?
It remains very much up in the air whether there will be very many high school football games in California that will get scheduled for March and April, but with the downward trends in the pandemic it’s still possible to speculate about teams from adjoining counties that at some point might be able to play […]
D1AA State Champs Still Strong
Central of Fresno loses a lot of offensive firepower from 2019 club that made history with 15-0 record and CIF D1-AA state title. But don’t fret about the Grizzlies. They’re loaded on defense for the 2020-21 season, hoping they get to start on time in January, and should be fine on offense with another transfer […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 St. John Bosco vs. No. 3 De La Salle in this week’s CIF Open Division state championship. And going by this week’s rankings, it also will be No. 7 Central of Fresno vs. No. 9 Sierra Canyon and No. 8 Corona del Mar vs. No. 10 San Mateo Serra in...
