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...
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Preseason State Record Updates
The first group of all-time state record lists for football that can only be seen on the CalHiSports.com website have been updated and are ready to go prior to the start of the 2025 season. We have done all single-game highs for offense, defense & special teams plus some of the team categories such as […]
Class of 25 FB: FINAL Hot 100
We are beginning to ramp up items for the 2025 football season in California, which will be the 48th that we’ve covered since 1979. We will have an updated look at the Class of 2026 Hot 100 football prospects, but begin with a final compilation for the just graduated Class of 2025. It ended up...
Football Team Records: Win Streaks
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. These state record lists are for team winning streaks in football. For more on late Cal-Hi Sports record book founder Nelson Tennis, CLICK HERE. These totals are through all games of the 2024 season. To submit a record or report a correction online, CLICK HERE and completely fill...
CIF Regional Bowl Game Projections
Sorry, but last week’s medium/small school rankings really have to be the last ones until the final rankings when the season is over. Instead, now that every CIF section in the state has playoff pairings available, we need to get out our first run through of projections about which champions at the end of the […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Biggest changes this week are as a result of Inglewood losing by a large margin to Santa Margarita in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs and St. Francis of Mountain View falling in its regular season final. That helps Serra of Gardena to move up three spots plus San Juan Hills and Simi Valley joining...
State Super 70: No. 11 to No. 20
Our Sunday special this week continues the countdown of the 70 greatest high school football teams in state history. As we move toward the top 10, there are some changes in this range of teams. This is mainly because of the elevation of the Folsom High Bulldogs of 2014. Their QB, Jake Browning, in the...
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...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
After No. 1 Mater Dei tops Bishop Gorman of Nevada in a national showdown, how will California No. 4 Orange Lutheran do when it plays at Bishop Gorman on Friday? The first 25 of these rankings also show a rise for Sierra Canyon despite its loss to No. 2 St. John Bosco, why we went...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 38th consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. We have first team, second team, and third team just missed. Note: There are no writeups for each player (like there will be for the official, end of season all-state first team) but all have writeups within this year’s various […]
