Our 10th stop in this statewide tour of leading players from top teams goes to the far north where the schools tend to be small and the rest of the state largely ignores. There are changes in the air with a new commissioner, schools competing in their final year in the section and a new...
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FB Preview: Six Burning Questions
The first of our preseason all-section, all-area or all-county teams will begin to be pushed out over the weekend plus we’re about one week from the preseason TOP 50 team rankings, but for now here’s a big picture outlook of where things stand prior to the 2021 California high school football season. This includes questions […]
NEW Five-Division State FB Rankings
With just one week to go for many teams, No. 1 teams are St. John Bosco of Bellflower (D1), Rocklin (D2), Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (D3), Sacred Heart Prep of Atherton (D4) and Tri-City Christian of Vista (D5). Rocklin is new at the top of its division despite not playing. Note that final rankings...
All-Time NorCal Unbeaten FB Teams
Thanks to mountains of information on California high school football that can’t be found anywhere else, here is an honor roll list according to Cal-Hi Sports of every reported unbeaten team from schools currently in the CIF Northern Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, CIF North Coast Section, CIF Central Coast Section plus San Francisco and Oakland....
Senior Salutes No. 7 (Baseball/Softball)
As a consequence of the 2020 high school baseball and softball seasons being canceled after not even one-third of scheduled games were played in the state, we cannot produce all-state teams in those sports for 2020. We do not want to forget about those seniors from the Class of 2020, however, who were going to […]
Inside The All-State Football Team
This final column offers a roundup of the toughest choices that had to be made for all of the teams announced as part of our 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. We had the impact this year of knowing we were going to officially choose players of the year at each position plus we...
All-State Football 2019: Sophomores
The 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams start off with a look at the best of the best among sophomores. State Team of the Year St. John Bosco had some good ones and landed three on first team, but we also are high on some from more smaller places, including two on second team...
FINAL Medium/Small School Ranks
We’ve already announced Clayton Valley of Concord (medium) and Ripon (small) as the final No. 1 teams in these classifications. Here are the final top 15 teams for each plus five more expanded teams in order and a few more added on as honorable mention. Medium school teams moving up at the end include Camarillo...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
We have two new No. 1 teams this week as St. Paul (Santa Fe Springs) takes over at the top for medium schools while Sutter does the same for small. The medium pecking order also was pretty much completely overhauled by a lot of higher seeded teams losing in section playoffs. Newcomers for medium include...
Paradise Wins 11-0 vs 11-0 Showdown
There was only one section football playoff game on Friday night in all of Northern California that matched both teams at 11-0. And in that CIF Northern Section Division 3 contest, Paradise proved it’s more than just a feel-good story with a road win against West Valley of Cottonwood. These Bobcats are playing for more […]
