With the sophomores and juniors in the books, we now switch to the best of the best among small schools for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State football honors. We have a first team of 30 players as usual but once again there’s a few extra on second team multi-purpose to account for the high […]
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FINAL Medium/Small State FB Rankings
Here’s the final order of top California high school football teams that have been deemed medium or small schools for the 2025 season. Bakersfield Christian hung on to the top medium spot despite loss in CIF D2-AA state final. Sonora and Rio Hondo Prep also still ended No. 1 and No. 2 for small schools...
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (26-75)
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings out to 75 teams instead of just doing a bubble list. CIF state title game results also helped some other teams come up at the end, including Serra of San Mateo, Clovis and Los Gatos. We also had to figure out where best to place CIF...
More State FB Teams of Year
Centennial earns top public school recognition for the third straight year. Bakersfield Christian may have lost in D2-AA state final, but it is medium schools and did enough in its last two games to be Medium Schools and D2 State Team of the Year. For small schools and D4, as expected, it’s 15-0 Sonora. We […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
Santa Margarita completes dominant playoff run with big win vs De La Salle to win its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday at Saddleback College. The Eagles (11-3) just got better and better and better in every playoff game. It also capped a day in which two other undefeated teams had their seasons […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
After a night of “AA” regional finals, the CIF regional finals were held on Saturday in the “A” divisions, led by NorCal 1-A champion Central East of Fresno and SoCal 1-A champion Pacifica of Oxnard. Both Sonora (14-0) and Rio Hondo Prep (15-0) also won in 2-A region finals as what we’d call legit small […]
Medium/Small School State FB Ranks
With the regional bowl games set for this weekend, we’re doing one more installment of these rankings to set up the final rankings that will be done after next week’s CIF state championships. It could be a perfect storm for the CIF D2-A state final if Sonora and Rio Hondo Prep are playing each other...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group is now led by CIF Southern Section D2 semifinalist Murrieta Valley. The big news is that since the CIF put small school, small town Sonora up into the D2-A regional finals, we have done the same by moving up the 13-0 Wildcats into these rankings. See why No. 40 Bakersfield Christian is now...
