Another of St. John Bosco’s recent teams (2018) joins the party among this group, which also includes school’s 2016 CIF state champions despite two losses. Part of the reason for that is how highly regarded Mater Dei was at the time of Bosco’s avenging win in the CIF Southern Section D1 final. Both teams from...
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FB: Upset Special of Week
Each week on Thursdays, we’ll pick one game involving a team in the Top 50 of our state rankings that we think has the best chance to suffer an upset loss. We’ll see if we can nail one or two of them during the season. Picking 70 percent of wins is easy for any prep […]
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This second group of elite teams leads off with Calabasas, which is continuing to build toward a CIF state title. We also had a hard time coming up with a team to start out highest in the CIF Central Coast Section, so we just stuck two of them in this group right next to each […]
FINAL Five-Division State FB Ranks
We really did try to have CIF state champions No. 1 in all five of these divisions, but weren’t going to switch teams in divisions to do it. Once we established which teams were in which of our five divisions based on section playoff divisions it didn’t seem fair to switch them around later on....
NEW Five-Division State FB Ranks
We’re still hoping to have all five final Cal-Hi divisional state No. 1 rankings going to CIF champions, but that will be harder now that Huntington Beach Edison, Calabasas and Sutter have all lost. Go inside to see where every CIF state championship participant has landed in this week’s rankings. If you can’t see this...
NEW State Top 25 FB Rankings
It’s CIF state championship week with nine teams in the State Top 25 heading to Sacramento, led by No. 1 St. John Bosco meeting No. 4 De La Salle in the Open Division. We couldn’t get all 10 going to Sac State into the rankings since we decided to leave in previous No. 10 Calabasas...
Five-Division State FB Rankings
Now that the CIF state bowl games are set, it’s time to start looking at how our traditional five-division state rankings will shape up for this season. We hope all five who end up No. 1 in two weeks will be CIF state champions, but it’s possible in Division IV and Division V that they...
FINAL 2016 Girls VBall State Top 20
Due to the first-ever Open Division, it was harder to rank the CIF divisional state champions too high. CIF D1 state champ Edison did land fourth, but D2 champion Cathedral Catholic couldn’t crack the final Top 20 and neither could D3 titlist Acalanes of Lafayette. Cathedral Catholic and nine other teams, however, were placed in […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We had not yet picked the sensational Eric Melesio of Riverside Norte Vista and we’ll do that now for SoCal and go over his record-breaking 563-yard rushing outing from last Friday. Others honored for this week are from Antelope, Stockton, Oakland, Huntington Beach and San Marcos.
