Here’s our first run-through for all of the most likely scenarios for the CIF NorCal and SoCal regional bowl games, which will lead up to the CIF state football championships on Dec. 8-9 at three junior colleges in Southern California. We’ll do another one next week prior to the CIF section championships and will offer […]
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1st NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
There will be tons of movement on both sides of our board from now until that Sunday in four weeks when the CIF announces on which teams will be playing each other in this year’s regional & state title football games. Since we now have pairings and top seeds available in most CIF sections of […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
This week’s big riser among this group is Del Oro of Loomis, which is up nine spots after big win over Granite Bay. Salinas and Manteca also get two-spot bumps. The only two newcomers this week, meanwhile, are Yorba Linda and St. Bonaventure of Ventura. FOR ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL STATE FOOTBALL RANKINGS GOING BACK...
2021 Fall FB Coaching Highlights
With our state coaches of the year announced within the last two weeks, it’s also the time when we update the all-time state coaching leaders list to include all reported results from the 2021 fall season. The biggest news was Randy Blankenship of Aptos becoming just the 13th in state history to win his 300th […]
Double Coaching Honors For Negro
St. John Bosco’s Jason Negro is not just the 2019 State Football Coach of the Year. He is also at the same time leading off our end-of-the-decade parade of honors by being named the State Coach of the Decade. The Braves just won their third CIF Open Division state title since Negro took over their […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
We tried to get all of this weekend CIF D2-AA and D2-A state finalists into these rankings, but couldn’t quite make it thanks to Oxnard (now No. 50) having a head-to-head win over Pacifica of Oxnard (which would be No. 51 if we counted it that far). In addition to Oxnard, two other newcomers this...
State Coach of Year: Michael Peters
Becoming the first public school head coach to win three straight CIF state titles in the modern era also nets prestigious overall State Coach of the Year selection for Oakland McClymonds’ Michael Peters. The Warriors have been moved up in divisions for the past two state titles and for their streak to continue they’ll probably […]
CIF Bowl Boards 4 (North & South)
With all of the disruptions in Northern California & the CIF pushing back the state finals one week, it will be more disjointed this season since the Southern California section playoffs will be complete after this weekend and the SoCal bowl games lineup will be announced on Sunday. The CIF and ourselves like to look...
CIF Regional Football Lineup Set
Here is the lineup of games for this year’s CIF football regional championships as announced on Sunday, Dec. 3. The matchups were approved by a committee of CIF section commissioners through video conference call. If people are curious, we know our Cal-Hi Sports’ bowl boards (north and south) are looked at by CIF football officials, […]
CIF NorCal Bowl Board No. 6
The fun part of these boards that it’s possible to run them in different combinations to see how they shape up. This week, we went back to using Bellarmine of San Jose as one of the projected three CCS Open Division champions. Next week, maybe we’ll put Sanger in the south and Bakersfield Christian in...
