Author Archives: Mark Tennis
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
With football in the home stretch, this is the week in which boys and girls hoops gets added to this feature. We start with Mater Dei’s Gary McKnight moving to No. 2 all-time in the nation for coaching wins in boys hoops plus we have the 800th win for Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell. Carlsbad’s Jake...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
With our regional projections completed & games coming up this weekend, here’s a look at an updated set of Medium/Small Schools State Rankings. Newbury Park has already clinched a No. 1 finish for medium. The new No. 1 for small schools is Rio Hondo Prep of Arcadia. The CIF itself made Rio Hondo’s move to...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei and De La Salle will head into the CIF Open Division state final at No. 1 and No. 4 in the state. The big news this week among these teams is Newbury Park going from No. 15 up to No. 9. Unlike top seed Murrieta Valley in the CIFSS D2 playoffs, the Panthers...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
For the first time in its young history (three years), Twelve Bridges of Lincoln cracks this group with a 13-0 record. The Raging Rhinos will be facing a Wilcox of Santa Clara squad on Saturday that also appears in these rankings. We also have moved up Narbonne of Harbor City prior to its matchup on...
Enhanced Regional FB Matchups
We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with numerous details plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. Our own projections done before the CIF section commissioners met on Sunday morning after all Saturday results were almost close to correct...
FINAL Regional FB Bowl Projections
These final projections were completed on Saturday night after all CIF section championship games are in the books. It only takes one or two projections to not match what the CIF actually announces to mix up the games we’ve recommended as each choice acts like a ripple down through the rest of the lineup. Still, […]
SJS Football Title Game Recaps
Friday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section football championships at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento saw one team come up short in trying to get to 13-0, another team succeed in doing that quite easily and finally a thriller in which the winning team three-peated as a section champion. Note: We won’t be able to duplicate these recaps for […]
Freshman FB Players to Watch (Part 1)
Here’s a first list of those now on our radar screen as ninth graders we’ll likely be following for the next few years. This is not a Class of 2028 recruiting list and another one will be done after after the season and after the all-state teams are released. The third ever State Freshman Player...
NEW Regional Bowl Game Projections
Here’s where we have things lined up before this weekend’s CIF section championship games. Several already are done with teams locked into slots on our board. We have moved up both McClymonds in the north and Narbonne in the south, but admit those are the two big wild cards difficult to know how the CIF...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
On the eve of the latest Mater Dei-St. John Bosco battle of No. 1 and No. 2 for the CIF Southern Section D1 championship, we see rises this week for De La Salle up to No. 4, Folsom up to No. 7 and Lincoln of San Diego up to No. 12. We also have both...
