One of this week’s honorees plays for the No. 1 ranked team in the state, another is a state reported leader and two more got the nod for huge outings against unbeaten foes. This week’s group hail from Rancho Santa Margarita, Los Angeles and Solana Beach in Southern California and Manteca, Orland and Ripon in […]
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Preseason All-CIF Northern Section
We have now completed another tour of the state to start a high school football season in California and end with the far north section of the CIF. Several teams have already played season openers and there was a big one that indicates defending D2 champion Pleasant Valley of Chico is going to be elite...
State Football Players of the Week
As the section playoffs narrow the funnel of those that can be selected, there are still some rather incredible performances from last weekend that deserve major props. One of them will be good enough to go into the state record all-time list for single-game rushing. All of them helped their teams collect playoff wins. The […]
CIF top division state fb finals may split
The California Interscholastic Federation released more details this week about how it will conduct upcoming state football championships under a new format in which all of the title games will be played at one of three junior colleges in Southern California. We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. To join our Gold Club […]
Preseason All-Northern Sec FB Team
Annual tour of the state through preseason all-area or all-section teams concludes with the far reaches of the CIF Northern Section. Almost all teams in the section, similar to the Central Coast and North Coast Sections, still haven’t started yet. CIF D5-A state champion Orland has a lot of top returning players and three of...
State Football Record Updates (Team)
Another major task of ours every summer is to update all of the all-time Cal-Hi Sports state football records (which don’t exist anywhere else) prior to the start of the upcoming season. We’re done with many of the team records and here’s a few highlights, including winning streaks, losing streaks, most yards rushing, most points […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the honorees from among those schools considered medium or small schools for the 2022 season. Our medium schools honoree already has been named Orange County Coach of the Year and just won his 150th game. Our small schools honoree directed his team to one of the historically greatest seasons in his CIF section’s […]
More State FB Teams of the Year
Los Alamitos is the 2022 State Public Schools Team of the Year even with a 9-3 final record. This group of Griffins, however, does make us recall great teams from Los Al in 1994 and 2002. We also have Granite Hills of El Cajon (medium schools) and Escalon (small schools) collecting final No. 1 honors. […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
As the funnel narrows and there are a limited number of teams still playing, it can sometimes be hard to find performances that can fill all six of the Player of the Week awards. We not only have some very deserving honorees, but a bit of an anomaly as two of the winners will be […]
Medium/Small School Teams of Week
In this salute to teams we have categorized as medium or small schools based on competitive equity, enrollment and other factors, it’s a new feature this season pointing the spotlight on two of them each week who just had impressive outings on the football field. Congrats to Charter Oak of Covina (medium) and Orland (small).
