Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Marlon Gardinera: State Coach of Year
Following San Mateo Serra’s Patrick Walsh for 2020-21, it became a perfect fit for another of the major coaches in the state who played a significant role in enabling there to be a season last spring to be named for the state’s most prestigious coaching honor. This is the one that goes back for more […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the honorees from among those schools considered large or small schools for the 2021-22 season. Our medium schools honoree is the one this year who has been named State Coach of the Year. Our large schools honoree joins his dad as a State Coach of the Year and did something that hadn’t been […]
FINAL State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Extra time also is taken to closely check out any teams that can move up in these final rankings. For this group, Lincoln of San Diego goes from No. 29 to No. 26, Bellarmine of San Jose goes from No. 35 to 30 and Cajon of San Bernardino gets the nod to rejoin the top...
Football State Team of the Year 2021
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. Mater Dei of Santa Ana puts its name on the list for the fifth time, but fourth in the last five years. This also is just its second State Team […]
More State FB Teams of the Year
Not every one of the so-called big four this year in the CIF Southern Section was from a private school. Centennial of Corona is public and therefore became an easy choice to be the 2021 State Public School Team of the Year. We also are congratulating Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista as State Medium […]
CIF Saturday State Finals (NorCal)
While the five teams from Northern California were winless in games played over the weekend at Saddleback College, it was the exact opposite for the CIF state football finals played at home sites on Saturday in Northern California. All 10 of the SoCal teams were winless. Leading the way was D3AA winner Vanden of Fairfield […]
CIF Saturday State Finals (SoCal)
Mater Dei caps unbeaten, state and national No. 1 season with rout of San Mateo Serra in Open Division. It’s too bad, though, the school handled its post-game interactions with the media the way it did. That other Serra, from Gardena, did much better in D1-A with a win over Liberty of Bakersfield. The day […]
CIF San Diego-style Friday State Finals
Cathedral Catholic beats Folsom in CIF D1-AA state championship to earn its third overall state title and hand the Bulldogs their first CIF state final loss in their fifth appearance. The Dons also did it a few hours after Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista gave the San Diego Section a win in the CIF […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
It should be an edge for teams from Southern California playing at Saddleback College this weekend on Friday & Saturday, but a bulk of the teams from Northern California playing at home on Saturday in Divisions 3-AA down to 7-A figure to win and some by multi-score margins. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL […]
