It’s Mater Dei-St. John Bosco week in Southern California so get ready for the hype machine to get rolling. It’s the best of the best for the nation so all of the attention is very much deserved. There are changes to this week’s rankings with Los Alamitos inching up to No. 7, JSerra getting a...
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2008 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
2008, ’94, ’81 Season Replays (Week 2)
This is how the season looked after the second 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 were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord. Mater Dei...
Updated State FB Teams of Yr Lists
We have traditionally posted the updated all-time State Teams of the Year for football after each season as part of our postseason coverage of free content. We are doing it this year in a blog post attached to the main story. We also are adding the public schools all-time list (scroll below), which currently goes […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday score added. The highest ranked team to lose didn’t lose on Friday but in a Thursday night contest in Orange County that saw No. 5 JSerra fall to No. 16 Servite. Then on Friday the biggest winners included No. 13 Cathedral Catholic roaring back in the fourth quarter to beat its arch-rivals from St. […]
Public School No. 1 Teams In State
Centennial of Corona would be No. 1 in this category for the last four straight California high school football seasons and is the last public school to be State Team of the Year (11 years ago). Folsom would be No. 1 twice since 2010 and would be runner-up to Centennial the past two seasons. We’ve...
Mater Dei Cruises With Defense & QB
For anyone hoping that it might be different this year in California prep football — with Mater Dei of Santa Ana and St. John Bosco of Bellflower holding a wide gap in talent, explosiveness and size mixed with elite coaching over any other schools — then you can probably forget it. Mater Dei opened its […]
Top Football Coaches Sound Off
We recently received more than 50 responses from many of the top high school football coaches in California on a questionnaire in which they participated in a poll about the controversial transfer situation and were asked a general question regarding their thoughts about the current format of the CIF state football championships. Go inside to […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday games at the Honor Bowl in Mountain View sees impressive wins by No. 16 Serra of Gardena and No. 19 Liberty of Brentwood. On Friday, No. 1 Mater Dei shows national audience on ESPNU why not much has changed despite all of those gone from last season with a 42-0 road romp over national […]
