This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
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Schools With The Most All-State Players
We’ve done these lists previously for boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball and now we’re finishing with football. With our all-state first team selections going back to 1980 (and not earlier), that also mirrors the start of the head coaching career of Bob Ladouceur at Concord De La Salle so it shouldn’t come as […]
Fantag Games of Week Recaps
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these three Fantag Games of the Week. For this first week, we’d say we had one upset, one game that was close throughout and another that went to overtime. Stay tuned to see previews for our next set of these […]
State Super 55: No. 31 to No. 40
Last year’s team at Corona Centennial debuts at No. 31 in the all-time rankings and begs the question of how high would the Huskies have been if they could have won that last game? California’s first 15-0 team from Bishop Amat plus a Long Beach Poly squad that ended its season with a 102-0 win...
Sac-Joaquin Top 5: Playoff Streaks
Last week on the latest FOX 40 Final Quarter high school football show of the 2016 season, hosts Jim Crandell and Kristina Werner revealed a list of the top five longest playoff streaks in CIF Sac-Joaquin Section history, according to CalHiSports.com and the section office.
FB: Sac-Joaquin Section Top 25 (3)
It’s a second straight week of how to re-shuffle the section rankings after a massive upset, in this case Davis beating previous section No. 3 Elk Grove 16-14. The Blue Devils get rewarded for the win, but so does one team they lost to earlier in the season, Woodcreek of Roseville. Anyone wishing to see […]
FB: Sac-Joaquin Section Top 25 (1)
Since the great Joe Davidson of the Sac Bee doesn’t seem to be doing a CIF Sac-Joaquin Section rankings package this year for MaxPreps and we’re physically located within the confines of the SJS in Stockton, we thought this week, “Why not?” Anyone wishing to see writeups and breakdowns of the top teams in the […]
Super 50 All-Time Great FB Teams
With the CIF state bowl games putting a capper on the 2015 season, we thought it’s a perfect time to release our first-ever package of what we think would be a solid ranking of the 50 greatest football teams in state history. Go inside here for intro/criteria and alphabetical list of the 50 teams.
State Super 50: No. 31 to No. 40
California’s first 15-0 team from Bishop Amat plus a Long Beach Poly squad that ended its season with a 102-0 win headline those selected in this group. Also included are Sacramento Grant 2008 and Berkeley 1957. Note: All of the writeups, grid logs, photos and more for all of these teams are for our Gold...