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2025 Football Coaching Milestones

For this year, we are going to compile the annual feature on football coaching highlights before we announce the annual state coaches of the year instead of afterwards. We also produce this feature after all of our state coaching record lists have been updated. We’re now getting close to 150 who have won 200 games […]

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Preseason State TOP 50 (Part 2)

With the first 25 teams in our spring 2021 preseason state football rankings appearing in Part 1, here are the next 25 teams in order plus 20 more teams listed on the bubble. This group is led by 2019 CIF D2-A state champ Clayton Valley of Concord, includes 2019 CIF D2-AA state champ Corona del […]

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All-State FB 2019: 1st Team Defense

To go with the 11 players written up for First Team Overall on offense, here’s the 11 that have landed as First Team Defense for the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. For this group, we have gone with two that easily could have been multi-purpose in some years but with all of the big-time […]

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NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

As the week of No. 1 Mater Dei vs. No. 2 St. John Bosco has dawned upon us, more big news out of the Trinity League for this week’s state rankings is Servite of Anaheim surging up to No. 5 in the aftermath of triumph last week over JSerra. This week’s first group also now...

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

Saturday losers to out-of-state foes were No. 4 Narbonne and No. 5 JSerra, but No. 6 Cathedral Catholic got it done against No. 1 team from Arizona. On Friday, No. 2 St. John Bosco again made a national statement with win over namesake school from New Jersey while No. 20 Grace Brethren had perhaps the […]

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Preseason All-Ventura/Santa Barbara

For our next to last stop among regions of the CIF Southern Section we go to the counties of Ventura and Santa Barbara and those L.A. County schools in Westlake Village, Calabasas and Agoura who closely align with Ventura. Calabasas High leads the way on this team on offense with 2018 CIF Division 2-AA champion...

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FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)

Folsom doesn’t move up from No. 5 after CIF D1-AA state title win and then this week it’s reported that head coach Kris Richardson is leaving to become an assistant at Sac State. Cathedral Catholic doesn’t win in overtime against Folsom, but does move up from No. 8 to No. 7 in the final rankings....

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CIF Friday State Finals

Cathedral Catholic of San Diego almost pulls off an upset with a perfect game plan, but falls to Folsom 21-14 in overtime in the Division 1-AA state championship at Cerritos College. In the Division 2-AA state title game, Grace Brethren of Simi Valley erases memories of a loss in the state finals last season in […]

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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)

After the big win over St. John Bosco, Mater Dei takes over at the top of the state, which is where the Monarchs started this season and ended last season. The rest of the top 11 from last week is unchanged, and we didn’t move up Upland that far after it defeated previous No. 12...

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Preseason State 50 Football Ranks (3)

Starting at No. 35 and moving on to No. 50, these teams tend to be either those looking to step up in competition after winning at a lower level last year or teams from the very best leagues who have some question marks to overcome this season. This group includes San Clemente, Grace Brethren of […]

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