The 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors concludes with the best of the best on offense, defense and multipurpose. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker and three of the six multi-purpose players who have been chosen First Team Overall. These players are being honored […]
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Mr. Football 2024: Brady Smigiel
Much improved rushing totals plus only three interceptions compared to 49 TD passes all helped Newbury Park junior Brady Smigiel to capture the state’s longest running and perhaps most prestigious high school football honor. It was a very difficult selection and we spell it all out. Smigiel, who led the Panthers to the CIF Southern […]
More State FB Teams of Year
This was one of the hardest final State Small Schools Team of the Year selections in more than 40 years of doing one at the end of a season. Corona Centennial also gets another State Public School Team of the Year honor, Newbury Park already had wrapped it up for medium schools and we have...
State Football Players of the Week
We’ve come to the end of the line for this year’s version of the State Football Players of the Week, but despite only having section title games to choose from with only several dozen teams in action, we have six very worthy honorees that will now have an opportunity to help their teams win a […]
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...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We have two weeks of highlights to include this week and begin with why a team that ended 0-11 is going into the state record book. We also have a new state record holder for career receptions, another coach who has won 200 games or more (one that we saw win a CIF state title...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Just like last week, the only new team in medium schools is playing a higher ranked team in its next game. Newbury Park still No. 1 for medium, which is the same for Bradshaw Christian in small. There are two newcomers this week in small schools: Arcata & Salesian of Los Angeles. Note: This is...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
It’s been a couple of weeks since we were able to do these rankings due to travels in Europe, but we’re back and will be ranking teams now for the rest of 2024 season. There were changes for medium schools based on teams that had to go up into the overall State TOP 50, but...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
We have five newcomers in this week’s rankings and we hope we don’t jinx the highest ranked of those teams, La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad, like we did with the highest newcomer from last week. Also new are Los Gatos, Clovis, El Cerrito and Vista Murrieta of Murrieta. There’s also big rises for Newbury Park,...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Any kind of rankings in any CIF section of the state broken up into any kind of divisions is going extinct like the dodo bird due to competitive equity playoff divisions. Not for us, however. We will continue to put the spotlight on schools that are medium or small based on a lot of our […]
