Our final state rankings for each season take some extra time as we go over everything seen and reported since these won’t ever change and will be the rankings that go into our archives of final state rankings for every season since 1975. After the CIF state final results, Mission Viejo gets a bump to...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No changes for the top eight this week despite Santa Margarita falling to 5-3 with a loss to No. 1 St. John Bosco. We do move up unbeaten Los Alamitos to No. 10 with a matchup looming in two weeks with No. 4 Mission Viejo. Tustin also moves up from the 26-50 group into this...
TOP 25 For First 25 Years (11-25)
Instead of doing a new set of state rankings this week while traveling, we are presenting our picks for the TOP 25 players from California high school football for the first 25 years of the current century. Many of them we’ve seen play in person. This group of players begins by going Beast Mode plus...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 42nd consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. We have first team, second team, and third team. Most of the players already have been written up within our annual tour of the state through preseason teams from CIF sections plus more than one from the Southern Section. Note: […]
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...
All-State Football 2024: Juniors
Here’s the next group of players for our 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. After the sophomores led things off, we move on to the best of the best for juniors. Quarterbacks, quarterbacks and quarterbacks galore are everywhere in this group with two of the very best in the nation leading way — Mr....
Top Football Duos In State History?
After seeing Mater Dei’s inside defensive tackles duo of Tomuhini Tupui and Semi Taulanga in the team’s first game vs St. John Bosco this season, it was tweeted out and they were told that they were the best pair of defensive tackles that we’d ever seen in 45 years of covering California high school football....
CIF State Football Title Game MVPs
Some are easy, some are hard and we obviously have to do this without seeing all of the games in person. But we have an MVP for every CIF state championship game played since 2006 when the current event was renewed for the first time since 1927. The tradition continues from Dash Beierly of Mater […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei and De La Salle will head into the CIF Open Division state final at No. 1 and No. 4 in the state. The big news this week among these teams is Newbury Park going from No. 15 up to No. 9. Unlike top seed Murrieta Valley in the CIFSS D2 playoffs, the Panthers...
