Annual honor that goes back for more than 100 years usually has a finalist group of five, six or even seven players. This year, though, it’s a much different dynamic with two of the nation’s top players (both quarterbacks) both in California and both clearly out in front for all postseason accolades. We only realistically […]
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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday section finals added, including the biggie: No. 2 St. John Bosco avenging its only loss with comeback win over No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana in CIF Southern Section Division I championship. Three teams in the top 10 collected CIF section championships on Friday night with No. 3 De La Salle topping Pittsburg […]
State FB Record Updates & Stat Stars
Congratulations to this year’s regular season state stat champions, which couldn’t be officially figured out until this week since it was just after last week that the regular season was complete everywhere in the state. The top reported finishers are Cael Patterson of Escondido Orange Glen (touchdowns scored & rushing yards), Davon Booth of El […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With all of the teams that didn’t play last week, there are no new ones that have moved up this week into this group from below. But with previous No. 10 Serra of San Mateo falling from the unbeaten ranks, there is at least some movement. We didn’t drop the Padres out of the top...
Prep Notes With A Twist
This week’s version of our prep column includes our first look at what to look for regarding this year’s CIF Northern California and Southern California bowl games lineup. We think there’s a problem toward the top of the NorCal board without the Open Division section runner-up teams that were able to play in NorCal games...
New State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s one of those weeks where the only major moves are about what to do when other top-ranked teams have to go up against Mater Dei and St. John Bosco and lose by a large margins. For JSerra and Servite, the drops were minimal. The biggest mover this week was Corona del Mar of Newport...
Top Takeaways From Nike Camp
Santa Ana Mater Dei’s offensive linemen, a great quarterback class from the state continuing to shine and some players making a name for themselves in a competitive setting among top recruits from all over the West Coast are just a few of the best things we saw on Saturday at El Cerrito High at the […]
All-State Football 2018: Juniors
The Cal-Hi Sports All-State Sophomore Teams were released earlier several days ago to kick off our 40th year of all-state football honors. For the juniors, it was especially tough to find room for all of the state’s highly regarded quarterbacks and wide receivers. Schools with more than one first team all-state junior include Mater Dei...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
With many top teams in NorCal on byes, first-round winners in some of the CIF Southern Section playoffs were given rankings bumps this week. The list includes new No. 28 Los Alamitos, No. 31 Corona del Mar, No. 37 Rancho Cucamonga and No. 41 Upland. This week’s only newcomer is Alemany of Mission Hills. For...
State Stat Stars of the Week
On the eve of an epic showdown between two QBs who will both have 10,000 yards or more of passing in their prep careers after just a few minutes, we’re focusing our stat stars just as much on running backs. Dorian Richardson of Rancho Buena Vista is on top of that list after he surged...
