Two teams with more than one CIF state title appearance — Clayton Valley of Concord and Helix of La Mesa — both make huge upward moves in this week’s rankings for schools in this group. This week’s newcomers are Bishop Diego of Santa Barbara, Liberty of Bakersfield, St. Francis of La Canada and Granite Bay....
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Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
We obviously couldn’t do these preseason teams in a tour of the state last year and are late in getting started this year, but here we go. This first one is for the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and it’s a 30-player squad dominated by D1 title favorite Folsom. Stockton rival schools St. Mary’s and Lincoln also...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Week five would be less than halfway through a normal football season, but this season is anything but normal, so instead we’re in the home stretch with just one more week to go for this feature. This week we travel to Orange County, San Diego and the Inland Empire for our SoCal honorees, and Shafter, […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday and Saturday nights like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Saturday was the bigger day and night of this weekend with a big upset in Riverside County and a win by No. 2 Mater Dei over […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
As No. 1 St. John Bosco and No. 3 Servite get ready to face off later this week, the team making the biggest move is new No. 20 Los Alamitos, which scored 35 points in one quarter of a win against 2019 CIF D2-AA state champ Corona del Mar. Both Cathedral Catholic and St. Augustine...
State FB Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday nights and the weekends like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Highest ranked team to lose Friday was Helix (La Mesa). In biggest game between ranked teams, Serra of San Mateo topped Valley Christian of San […]
Preseason All-State Football (Part 1)
How can a preseason all-state team be done in two parts? This is just our way of not completely ignoring those Class of 2021 graduating seniors who may not play for their high school teams once the next season begins. Part 2 will be a revamped version of these teams chosen in early December and […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
We have four newcomers this week, led by new No. 35 Chaminade of West Hills. Can the Eagles keep it going with the upsets in the CIF Southern Section D2 playoffs? The other three are Lincoln of San Diego, Hanford and Monterey Trail of Elk Grove. Also getting a strong upward push is new No....
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The team climbing up the most among this group is Pittsburg of the CIF North Coast Section after its big road win at St. Mary’s of Stockton. We also have four newcomers that are coming into this week’s rankings — Orange Lutheran, Monterey Trail of Elk Grove, Lincoln of San Diego and Del Oro of...
