To go along with Mr. Football State Player of the Year Trent Mosley, check inside this post for the honorees who have been chosen among juniors, sophomores, freshmen, medium schools and small schools. It’s more clear-cut this year with these additional honors since the overall winner is a senior and from a large/Open Division school. […]
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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, […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
After a one-week break due to a family trip, we’re back with a full State TOP 50 and should be good to go for the rest of the 2025 season. There’s just been some shuffling of the top six in the state and in the CIF Southern Section, which now has Sierra Canyon up to...
TOP 25 For First 25 Years (11-25)
Instead of doing a new set of state rankings this week while traveling, we are presenting our picks for the TOP 25 players from California high school football for the first 25 years of the current century. Many of them we’ve seen play in person. This group of players begins by going Beast Mode plus...
Preseason Long Beach/South Bay Team
A little more than a third of the players from this region of the state in this feature are from preseason state No. 2 St. John Bosco. Serra of Gardena also has multiple players written up as well as Palos Verdes, Downey and Leuzinger of Lawndale. Note: These preseason all-section or all-area teams are done...
