There are two new teams in this week’s breakdowns of the state’s top 50 teams, one of them that got in for beating a previously ranked team and the other going in based on previous that was on a bye last Friday. Teams that are showing with modest gains this week include St. Mary’s of...
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State HOF Adds 25 More Players
The next 25 group of inductees for the California High School Football Hall of Fame have been announced after the first 100 were done two years ago for an exhibit at the Rose Bowl that was unveiled last year. Here is where the Hall of Fame stands in getting the most deserving players into induction, […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
We have five newcomers in this week’s rankings and we hope we don’t jinx the highest ranked of those teams, La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad, like we did with the highest newcomer from last week. Also new are Los Gatos, Clovis, El Cerrito and Vista Murrieta of Murrieta. There’s also big rises for Newbury Park,...
What We Saw: De La Salle vs Grant
Big win for the Spartans in their first game Friday at home ended up being a prelude for a bigger one next week against Serra of San Mateo, but for someone who was clued in to both schools in the decade of the 2000s and even back to the 1990s it was a first-time matchup...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
A tidal wave splash created by the boys at JSerra (San Juan Capistrano) last Friday with their big win over Sierra Canyon pushes them up to No. 6 in this week’s rankings. It’s an eight spot jump. Centennial (Corona) also stays No. 3 after loss to No. 1 Mater Dei. More big upward moves this...
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
For this next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around the state we travel back up north for a look at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. This has been the domain of Folsom and the Bulldogs have a couple of big transfers added into their mix of stellar returnees off...
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
While Mater Dei is a solid favorite to win its fourth CIF Open Division state title and the De La Salle-Mission Viejo matchup in D1-AA looks like a toss up, the NorCal team is favored in just about all of the other 14 CIF state finals coming up this weekend at three JC stadiums in […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)
One of the most incredible finishes to a game you’d ever see and three unbeaten teams that all lost were just some of the storylines for the CIF regional championships that were played on Friday night. We’ll have a similar scoreboard on Sunday morning after all of the games played on Saturday for D1-A, D2-A, […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei goes back to the No. 1 spot it was in before last year’s CIF Southern Section championships and if recent history is a guide will stay there until St. John Bosco wins the next time in the series between the two schools. Pittsburg and Mission Viejo get big bumps, but are still playing...
