Category Archives: CIF State Championships
More State Football Coaches of Year
For taking a brand new school to records of 12-1 and 14-1 in just its second and third varsity seasons, Chris Bean from Twelve Bridges of Lincoln gains top state medium schools honor. For small schools, a coach who went 12-0 in his first season in 2009 at Carmel, Golden Anderson, and who just went […]
FINAL Medium/Small State FB Ranks
As earlier announced, Newbury Park and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma were named teams of the year for medium & small schools just after the CIF state finals. Now, we have expanded, final rankings for both breakdowns. Those moving up the most for medium at the end include Cardinal Newman, Beaumont, San Jacinto and...
Mater Dei State Team of Year 2024
Here is the official updated list of the California high school football state teams of the year that goes back for more than 120 years with Mater Dei of Santa Ana now added for 2024. Since the Monarchs also were No. 1 in the pandemic season when there were no section/state playoffs, it’s now four […]
More State FB Teams of Year
This was one of the hardest final State Small Schools Team of the Year selections in more than 40 years of doing one at the end of a season. Corona Centennial also gets another State Public School Team of the Year honor, Newbury Park already had wrapped it up for medium schools and we have...
More CIF Saturday State Finals
We still have MVPs to pick for every CIF state championship game (we have one for every game played since 2006), but here are recaps of the title tilts played on Saturday at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium. Two of these games went into overtime, one will go down as […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
It’s another CIF Open Division state title for Mater Dei, but this time the NorCal representative, De La Salle of Concord, put up a fight in the third quarter to make it interesting…at least for a few minutes. Monarchs gain their fifth CIF state title since 2017. Edison of Huntington Beach and Palos Verdes of […]
Friday CIF State Football Finals
San Diego Lincoln makes it two CIF D1-AA state titles in three seasons with 28-26 victory over Pittsburg. We also have what we saw in the CIF D2-AA state championship win by Grant of Sacramento over Pacifica of Oxnard. Others winners were Frontier of Bakersfield and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma at Long Beach […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
Northern California teams will be trying to break precedent of playing poorly in games played at Saddleback College. We have two of the five coming down, however, getting a win. In games played at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium, almost all of the NorCal teams once again are coming in […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
Edison of Huntington Beach opened its season with a loss to a Fresno team but now the Chargers can end it with a win over a Fresno team to win the CIF D1-A state title. Both the Chargers and Central of Fresno won in their regional finals on Saturday night. A new school in just […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)
Thrillers in D1-AA see wins in the final seconds for Lincoln of San Diego over Newbury Park and Pittsburg over Folsom. Newbury Park also wasn’t the only undefeated team to fall as both Hughson and Coalinga in D4-AA both lost and Winters lost as well. Plus, Grant of Sacramento and Pacifica of Oxnard get it […]