It can be confusing what’s medium schools vs large schools, especially in the world of competitive equity playoff divisions in which schools don’t know what divisions they will be in until playoffs actually begin, but we rely on our experience of covering the state to keep the format working. CIF D2-AA finalists La Serna of […]
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State FB Record Book Expands Again
It’s a continuing process of adding categories and doing updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state football record archives. This week, we’ve added new categories for total offense by individuals. This includes yardage, scoring and points accountable for during a season and career. Go inside to see why we got motivated to add these categories […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the second week of this feature we cover all the bases with respect to the purpose of the feature, and that is to track potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and to uncover hidden talent that in many instances only gets local props. We also generally try to stay away from […]
All-State FB 2020-21: Medium Schools
State D3 Team of the Year Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) & runner-up Marin Catholic (Kentfield) both get players onto this teams, along with several schools that were D2 for our final state rankings. Other schools with more than one honoree include Culver City, La Jolla, La Serna of Whittier, Clayton Valley of Concord, Pacifica of […]
Football Blasts From The Past
For the next few weeks, we’ll go back in time to approximately the same weekend of the California high school football season from five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. At the end of what would have normally been the end of each of those seasons, we may go back even […]
All-Time Single-Year Passing Leaders
All players from 2019 season who’ve qualified are now included in all-time state record lists that contain hundreds of names in four separate categories — most yards, most yards regular season, most TD passes and most TD passes regular season. We also have all of these records updated in our football records section prior to...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
There were lots of section playoff byes and other teams that didn’t play last week, but there was one result from the CIF Southern Section first round — Palos Verdes of PV Estates falling to Loyola in D4 — that caused some changes to this week’s medium schools rankings. For small schools, we have come...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
The only newcomer this week is Capital Christian of Sacramento in the medium schools top 15. Teams moving up include Palos Verdes and Hanford for medium plus Ripon, Rio Hondo Prep and Kennedy of Richmond for small. The trick for these rankings will be to evaluate teams that have to play up against much bigger...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
Half Moon Bay goes up to No. 1 for small schools after Ripon takes down previous No. 1 Escalon and we explain why it’s possible that Half Moon Bay might stay there even if it were to lose in a CIF Central Coast Section playoff game. Ripon charges up to No. 6 with Escalon at...