This will be the final installment of this feature until the final rankings are compiled in December. Next week, we’ll begin with three weeks of CIF state regional bowl game projections. Teams moving up this week are Bakersfield Christian, Charter Oak, Woodcreek, Cajon, La Habra and Capistrano Valley in medium plus Crespi of Encino, Shafter...
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Medium/Small School FB Ranks
Here’s our first look this season breaking down teams from around the state into medium and small divisions. The first No. 1 team slots go to Crean Lutheran of Irvine (medium) and Sonora (small). These will be weekly starting on Oct. 8 through the end of the regular season and then one week into the […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
Shafter’s Ezekiel Osborne threw for six TDs and moves just four short of 100 for career despite missing games last season with injury. We also have our first player in the state this season who has scored eight TDs in one game plus there were 54-yard and 53-yard field goals by kickers from JSerra and...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 42nd consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. We have first team, second team, and third team. Most of the players already have been written up within our annual tour of the state through preseason teams from CIF sections plus more than one from the Southern Section. Note: […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. Last week alone, we had three QBs come up with seven TD passes in one game. There also...
Preseason Central Section FB Team
This is the fifth stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honor teams and for this one we head back north from San Diego to the great Central Valley for the CIF Central Section (which now includes much of the Central Coast). Three teams from the same league — Clovis, Buchanan...
2021 Spring Football Unbeaten Teams
Some may object to counting any of the teams in this strange spring football season that didn’t lose a game as an unbeaten team. But we’ll leave the interpretation to others and we are going to count them. By our totals, we have 93 teams in California that have been added to the all-time state […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Week five would be less than halfway through a normal football season, but this season is anything but normal, so instead we’re in the home stretch with just one more week to go for this feature. This week we travel to Orange County, San Diego and the Inland Empire for our SoCal honorees, and Shafter, […]
All-State FB 2018: Small Schools
Two days after many of the state’s most deserving junior football players from the 2018 season were named to the all-state junior teams, we roll on with the 40th annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams with those from small schools. It’s harder than ever with competitive equity playoff divisions to say which […]
More State Football Players of Year
Check inside this post for the honorees who have been chosen among juniors, sophomores, medium schools and small schools. The choice for juniors was the most difficult and one of the most difficult player of the year football picks ever. It also continues to be a challenge to designate players who are from “medium” or […]
