We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with numerous details plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. Our own projections were 100 percent correct for Southern California down through D3-AA. Note: This is a post for Gold Club members...
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Pitt Comes Close Again in loss to DLS
Despite not punting once, the quest for Pittsburg High to finally get past state No. 5 De La Salle of Concord in the CIF North Coast Section Open Division championship came up a couple of plays short in a 24-17 loss on Friday. The Spartans made the big plays they needed in the fourth quarter […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No changes for the top eight this week despite Santa Margarita falling to 5-3 with a loss to No. 1 St. John Bosco. We do move up unbeaten Los Alamitos to No. 10 with a matchup looming in two weeks with No. 4 Mission Viejo. Tustin also moves up from the 26-50 group into this...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
The first six in the CIF Southern Section and for the state get shuffled again as previous No. 3 Mater Dei has to fall to No. 6 after taking 7-6 loss to new No. 5 Santa Margarita. St. John Bosco and Centennial remain 1-2 with Sierra Canyon moving up to No. 3. Carlsbad also is...
NorCal Double Dip: Points Galore
On a Friday night and Saturday afternoon, big wins were rung up by Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco in matchups of four teams all inside the top 30 of our state rankings. All four teams scored at least 35 points. Note: This is a post only for our...
Preseason All-NCS East Bay FB Team
Concord De La Salle starts the season after stretching its streak of consecutive CIF section titles to 33 years, but there have been some close calls the past two seasons. The Spartans have 15 returning starters this year with many of them honored on this team. Pittsburg had a super group of seniors move on,...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The questions about teams beyond the top two spots of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco will begin to get answered very quickly with big games coming up next week between No. 4 Mission Viejo and No. 5 Santa Margarita plus No. 6 Folsom hosting No. 13 Grant (Sacramento). There are other obvious top teams […]
All-State FB: Frosh Watch List 2024
It’s been almost two weeks after the Super Bowl, but we are still not completely done with football. Here is a watch list of leading freshmen football players in the state from the 2024 season and so far this spring who are on track to be all-state sophomores next season. The State Freshman Player of...
All-State FB 2024: 1st Team Offense
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 […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
Northern California teams will be trying to break precedent of playing poorly in games played at Saddleback College. We have two of the five coming down, however, getting a win. In games played at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium, almost all of the NorCal teams once again are coming in […]
