When looking at an area like the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section with a newly re-aligned playoff system, somewhat of the same approach has to be taken when looking at the area’s preseason team. The same powerhouse schools dominate the selections, led by De La Salle (Concord) followed by Liberty (Brentwood)...
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
After another full week of games is wiped out in the CIF North Coast Section and a first week gets postponed in the Sac-Joaquin (all due to unhealthy levels of smoke in the air), playoff action throughout the state should return to normal this week with wet weather forecast to finally hit the region. In...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
With strong wins, both De La Salle and Corona Centennial can make a legitimate claim to be No. 3 behind Mater Dei and St. John Bosco, but DLS was third before so it stays there. Another school in Concord, Clayton Valley, does indeed crack the barrier to be in this first of two posts including...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Central Catholic of Modesto is in a goofy spot in that it was last in the post last week for 1-25 but this week is first in the 26-50 post. Several teams playing each other in the CIF Southern Section Division II quarterfinals also are all up this week and in this range of the...
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This second group of elite teams leads off with Calabasas, which is continuing to build toward a CIF state title. We also had a hard time coming up with a team to start out highest in the CIF Central Coast Section, so we just stuck two of them in this group right next to each […]
Week 12 Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
It’s not too surprising that two state-ranked teams – No. 9 Serra of Gardena and No. 21 Bishop Amat of La Puente – lost in the first round of the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs due to the strength of the first 12 to 14 teams. But it was more of shocker that state No. […]
Preseason State Super 50 (Part 1)
Our first five to start the 2016 football season is hugely influenced by previous results because we simply can’t rank Mater Dei of Santa Ana (highest ranked from the state in many national polls) ahead of a St. John Bosco team it has lost to six straight times. That kind of ranking needs to be […]
FINAL S.F. Bay Area FB Rankings
De La Salle win and losses by Bellarmine and Clayton Valley in CIF bowls causes Foothill and Antioch to move up to third and fourth in final evaluations. Oak Grove also gets moved back in front of St. Francis.
A Saturday: Clayton, ‘Bonne Roadies
On Single A Saturday in the CIF Northern California & Southern California regional football bowl games, state No. 11 Clayton Valley of Concord gets defensive in 21-3 win at No. 25 Oak Grove of San Jose while state No. 12 Narbonne also hits the road and beats No. 20 Ridgeview of Bakersfield to set up […]
NEW State Top 25 Football
Despite all of the section playoffs around the state concluding, the only new team to go into this week’s rankings is Oak Grove of San Jose. Helix and Bellarmine also moved up to No. 7 and No. 8 while La Habra and Ridgeview went up to No. 19 and No. 20, but still not in...
