This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school football and is now in its seventh week as part of the 2021-22 school year. We’ve already featured the eight TD pass game by San Diego Mission Bay’s Clash Orsborn, but there were some other big-time standouts deserving of attention. Also...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There is a high total of eight new teams breaking into this elite group, led by new No. 37 Warren of Downey and new No. 41 Corona del Mar of Newport Beach. Major movers include Loyola of Los Angeles (No. 33 to No. 28), San Ramon Valley of Danville (No. 34 to No. 30) and...
Preseason STATE TOP 50 (Part 2)
This group of potentially great teams from California starts with a look at two of the Lincoln high schools — from San Diego and Stockton — placed right next to each other. There are other schools in this mix who may have a bit more to replace than those in the first 25 and some […]
Class of 21 FB: FINAL Hot 100
Here’s one final look at the top 100 ranked football recruits from California for the Class of 2021. A good chunk of them did not get to experience a senior season, of course, due to the pandemic, but there were others who waited it out and were able to get in a short spring season....
FINAL State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Mater Dei takes over at the top as previously announced, Sierra Canyon joins the top five for the first time in its history and San Clemente moves up into the top 10. The 2021 spring season didn’t finish with anything else too drastic from the next to last rankings. Others moving up were Buchanan of...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
De La Salle and Servite flip-flop at No. 3 and No. 4, but there are no other changes in the top 10 even though both Cathedral Catholic and Sierra Canyon deserve to go up. This week’s two major movers are Rocklin from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Buchanan from the CIF Central Section. Nice bumps...
State Schools of the Century (So Far)
We came up with a points system for all of the schools that have been mentioned and honored in our annual State School of the Year selections since the 1999-2000 school year and have put together a top 10 for overall sports excellence so far for the 21st century. It is close at the top […]
2008, ’81 & ’94 Season Replays (Week 6)
This is how the season looked after the sixth week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. No. 1 teams remained Edison of Huntington Beach, Bishop Amat of La Puente and Long Beach Poly. For two of the seasons,...
Senior Salutes No. 2 (Baseball/Softball)
As a consequence of the 2020 high school baseball and softball seasons being canceled after not even one-third of scheduled games were played in the state, we cannot produce all-state teams in those sports for 2020. We do not want to forget about those seniors from the Class of 2020, however, who were going to […]
