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...
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Salute to Mike Alberghini
The Northern California and state football coaching great from Grant of Sacramento died this week at age 78. His influence was still obvious at Grant this last season when the Pacers won the CIF D2-AA state championship. There may not be a coach in state history who has experienced the highs and lows that former […]
All-State FB 2024: 1st Team Defense
For this side of the ball on the top, overall unit for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors, it wound up being an alignment of four on defensive line, three linebackers and four defensive backs. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on defense plus a punter and three […]
FINAL All-State FB Nominees (NorCal)
The next step toward selection of the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams is updated lists of nominees based on input received from the first lists. More info also has come in from other sources. These players are all from the CIF sections in Northern California (except the Central Section). The...
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s the eighth time in the last nine seasons that Mater Dei and St. John Bosco finish in the top two slots. The only time they didn’t was 2021 and that No. 2 team, Servite of Anaheim, is going to have two first round NFL draft picks in April. De La Salle also did enough...
Friday CIF State Football Finals
San Diego Lincoln makes it two CIF D1-AA state titles in three seasons with 28-26 victory over Pittsburg. We also have what we saw in the CIF D2-AA state championship win by Grant of Sacramento over Pacifica of Oxnard. Others winners were Frontier of Bakersfield and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma at Long Beach […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)
Thrillers in D1-AA see wins in the final seconds for Lincoln of San Diego over Newbury Park and Pittsburg over Folsom. Newbury Park also wasn’t the only undefeated team to fall as both Hughson and Coalinga in D4-AA both lost and Winters lost as well. Plus, Grant of Sacramento and Pacifica of Oxnard get it […]
Enhanced Regional FB Matchups
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 done before the CIF section commissioners met on Sunday morning after all Saturday results were almost close to correct...
SJS Football Title Game Recaps
Friday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section football championships at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento saw one team come up short in trying to get to 13-0, another team succeed in doing that quite easily and finally a thriller in which the winning team three-peated as a section champion. Note: We won’t be able to duplicate these recaps for […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Two teams that gained six spots this week are new No. 27 Granite Hills of El Cajon and new No. 28 Yorba Linda. The Marmonte League also shows its strength in this group with St. Bonaventure back inside the top 40 and Pacifica of Oxnard coming back in after amazing comeback win over Long Beach...
