It’s time for the final pieces of the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors to be announced, which is offense, defense and multi-purpose with no restrictions on school size or year in school. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker and three of the six […]
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Mr. Football 2025: Trent Mosley
The last two performances for the senior standout from Santa Margarita Catholic of Rancho Santa Margarita wound up being the difference in a close call over two others. Mosley is the first-ever winner of the state’s longest-running player of the year honor from his school, but he’s the eighth in the last 10 years from […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Folsom joins top five and will look to stay there for matchup against probable No. 4 Mission Viejo in two weeks. Mater Dei, St. John Bosco and Corona Centennial are still 1-2-3. We also have Orange Lutheran getting a jump from No. 9 to No. 7 after its win over a top Florida school. More...
What We Saw: Mission V vs Santa Marg
With the offensive players on both teams, Mission Viejo’s 7-3 win on Friday over Santa Margarita in a matchup between two state top five ranked teams was not expected. It also spoiled the debut of first-year head coach Carson Palmer for the Eagles, who has brought an NFL-style approach to the former NFL quarterback’s alma […]
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
Yes, mighty Mater Dei, the two-time defending CIF Open Division state champs and already an almost unanimous No. 1 in national preseason rankings, is always in the spotlight the most for Orange County football. As our preseason tour of the state begins this week through the selection of preseason honors squads, however, Orange County also...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
The two big results that shook up this week’s rankings were St. Ignatius of San Francisco posting a 21-20 win over previous No. 9 Serra of San Mateo and Serra of Gardena exploding past previous No. 15 Los Alamitos. Both of those teams were in our top 50 and both need to get bumped up...
All-State Football 2023: Sophomores
Welcome to the first selections for the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. We may not be the granddaddy of them all (copyright Rose Bowl) but we’re pretty sure there’s been some grandpas who we’ve chosen in the past for these teams. We begin with a look at those getting first & second team...
CIF State Football Title Game MVPs
We have picked one for every game we’ve seen since the first one of the modern era in 2006, and have chosen one based on posted stats & media coverage for every other state final. Perhaps the hardest one this year was for Woodland Christian in D5-A. We also have one freshman and three sophomores […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei goes back to the No. 1 spot it was in before last year’s CIF Southern Section championships and if recent history is a guide will stay there until St. John Bosco wins the next time in the series between the two schools. Pittsburg and Mission Viejo get big bumps, but are still playing...
