There are eight new teams listed on our SoCal board this week and there are three in the north. We’re now just a few days away, of course, from finding out from the CIF which teams are going to match up against each other after Friday and Saturday section finals. Granite Bay in the north...
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Bosco stays close enough to Mater Dei and has enough big games coming up to remain No. 2 in the state behind No. 1 Monarchs. JSerra, meanwhile, has to go up to No. 6 from No. 10 heading into this week’s game against Mater Dei. We also have two new teams that have been added...
FB: Upset Special of Week
Each week on Thursdays, we’ll pick one game involving a team in the Top 50 of our state rankings that we think has the best chance to suffer an upset loss. We’ll see if we can nail one or two of them during the season. Picking 70 percent of wins is easy for any prep […]
More State Record Updates
It’s a good thing Oaks Christian of Westlake Village was on a bye last week. We can’t take any more of this team’s wild-and-wacky offensive shootouts. Three different games involving the Lions already this season have produced some of the highest scores for a losing team in state history. Lakewood’s 80-64 win last week over...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Ronnie Rivers of surging Freedom (Oakley) gains NorCal offensive honor with seven TDs and nearly 400 yards rushing against Antioch. In the south, Matt Corral of Oaks Christian passes for 529 yards in a game in which both teams had more than 700. Others chosen this week are from San Jose, Danville, Twentynine Palms and […]
Week 2 Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
This is the place to go for a quick glance at the top teams in California and for some immediate analysis. No. 2 Corona Centennial falls in a wild finish at the Honor Bowl on Saturday to IMG Academy of Florida while No. 19 Helix tops No. 10 Clayton Valley earlier in the day in […]
FB: Top 10 Rankings Update
Oaks Christian gets a bump after its big win over Chaminade, but not much else changed from the preseason after opening week of 2016 season.
State Super 55: No. 21 to No. 30
The mighty 1927 state champs from Bakersfield and two teams from two years ago, De La Salle and Folsom, are featured in this group but now the Spartans and Bulldogs are a bit higher. De La Salle’s No. 1 team from last season also is now No. 28. Others include Pico Rivera El Rancho 1966...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Yeah, we do try to avoid picking the big-time recruits for these honors in favor of those that might more need the love, but just couldn’t resist a salute to what Oaks Christian’s Michael Pittman Jr. did in his final prep performance. Others gaining honors are from Hayward, Loomis, Galt, Redondo Beach and San Diego.
