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 […]
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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...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Since we are always looking for performances that could qualify for the Cal-Hi Sports Record Book, or for players that don’t always get a lot of props, the fact all three honorees from Southern California are from unbeaten teams, and two of three from Northern California are from unbeatens, is a bit of an anomaly. […]
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
Team that everybody in the state really is rooting for, Paradise, makes a big move this week even though the 7-0 Bobcats didn’t play. Losing teams and results from earlier in the season have just worked out for them. Ayala of Chino Hills and Rio Hondo Prep of Arcadia are two other newcomers in medium...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
Culver City takes over in No. 1 slot for medium schools in the state, but will have showdown game with Lawndale on Friday. Another huge matchup in Southern California sees No. 3 Pacifica of Oxnard go up against No. 9 Oxnard in what is known locally as the Battle for Gonzales Road. For the small...
