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...
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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...
FINAL State Baseball TOP 40 Rankings
The most difficult teams to rank at the end were the double-digit loss teams from Patrick Henry of San Diego and Santa Margarita of Rancho Santa Margarita. They’re both in the final top 10 but not top five. De La Salle also rises to third with Granite Hills fourth and Huntington Beach getting fifth. We...
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
No. 1 Corona will take 12 shutouts in 14 games into the National High School Invitational this week in North Carolina and will be joined by the state’s next top two ranked teams in the prestigious event. St. John Bosco makes the biggest move in this week’s rankings after its sweep of previous No. 4...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The post-season is here for CIF basketball and the No. 1 team in the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings is also the top seed in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs, which expanded this year to include two more teams. The 10-team field consists of 10 of the state’s top 13 teams...
