One week of regional playoffs brought some big changes to our weekly boys basketball state rankings after a mixture of upsets and favorites advancing. The big winners this week are SoCal D1 finalist Damien of La Verne and long-time CIF state power Mater Dei of Santa Ana, which was left for dead going into the...
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NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As the CIF has released its regional pairings for the final two weeks of play for the 2025-26 season, we have plenty of movement in our weekly boys basketball state rankings, but no new teams. We stick by our rankings, based on results, because there were some head-scratching moves when it came to placing teams...
All-State FB 2025: 1st Team Offense
It’s time for the final pieces of the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors to be announced, which is offense, defense and multi-purpose with no restrictions on school size or year in school. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker and three of the six […]
All-State Football 2025: Juniors
The 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams roll on with the top honors for juniors. It’s an interesting group of QBs with two of the very best from the same Orange County-based league. We also have four players on first or second team from Tustin High (also Orange County), which is the same number...
All-State Football Nominees (CIFSS)
Selecting players for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams is a process for us that includes extensive lists of nominees. This is just the first step in a process and players will be added for a second, updated list. Here is the second of three lists of players considered as nominees for the […]
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
Our final state rankings for each season take some extra time as we go over everything seen and reported since these won’t ever change and will be the rankings that go into our archives of final state rankings for every season since 1975. After the CIF state final results, Mission Viejo gets a bump to...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With the CIF Open Division state final not until Saturday of this week, the main changes to this week’s next-to-last rankings of the season are at No. 9 where Folsom moves up one spot and then a few places further down there is upward movement for Cathedral Catholic, Central East of Fresno and Pacifica of...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Most of the teams in this first group of state rankings writeups didn’t play this past weekend, but some did and one of the biggest wins in school history was recorded by Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. The Crusaders were not able to move up from No. 11 in the state, but there were some...
State Unbeaten FB Teams Stay Alive
After last year’s CIF state championships, the only two 11-man football teams in the state that finished unbeaten were Open Division winner Mater Dei of Santa Ana (13-0) and D5-AA winner Carmel (15-0). We’re going to start listing each one of the state’s undefeated teams starting this week and on Friday we saw one them, […]
