It’s been since 2012 when the CIF has had Northern California and Southern California regional football finals. It’s not yet been 10 years, but there’s been some high-octane shootouts, super-close finishes and amazing comebacks. With this year’s games slated for Friday & Saturday, here’s a look at our top 10 games. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The two teams getting the biggest boosts this week are two teams who played each other in a one-point game early in the season — new No. 33 Serra of Gardena and new No. 34 Long Beach Poly. There also are four newcomers this week — Clayton Valley of Concord, Madison of San Diego, San...
Schools Named For Presidents
As one school district in San Francisco foolishly decides whether to even have high schools named for George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, it’s nonetheless been many years since a California high school has been named for a former U.S. President. For Presidents Day 2021, here’s a look at schools in the state with those names. […]
Just the Picks: CIF Football Finals
As is our tradition, we go through each of the 13 upcoming CIF state football championship games and provide a predicted final score. We think a lot of NorCal teams will be successful on the road and perhaps one of the biggest underdogs is team with six state titles in the last seven years.
CIF SoCal Bowl Board No. 8
With one giant out of the way, St. John Bosco of Bellflower will try to slay another and avenge earlier loss in CIF Southern Section Division I final on Saturday against Mater Dei. With the top of the board seemingly set up, the upper half gets shaken up due to our insertion of Sanger from...
CIF SoCal Bowl Board No. 6
There are no new teams on the SoCal board this week due to playoff byes and first-round wins (although the blowouts you generally see aren’t nearly as bad with the new competitive equity divisions in the Southern Section). We did move around many teams from Division 3A downward. Those moving up include Christian of El...
Preseason State Super 50 (Part 3)
This group of teams starting at No. 26 is led off by ultra-talented Calabasas, which hopes to go even further in its CIF state division this season. Last year’s NorCal D1-AA representative to the CIF state bowl games, No. 27 Bellarmine of San Jose, is rebuilding but can’t be counted out. In this group as...
Final Five-Divisional State Rankings
No. 1 teams according to the traditional way we’ve done state divisional football rankings since 1978 are De La Salle, Serra of Gardena, Madison of San Diego, Marin Catholic and Ferndale.
More State Football Coaches of the Year
Here are the choices from among those schools considered medium-size and small. This year’s small schools honoree also makes history for being the first from his section to get the nod.
