Category Archives: CIF State Championships
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
For this week’s CIF state finals it will be No. 1 Mater Dei vs. No. 5 Serra (SM), No. 8 Folsom vs. No. 10 Cathedral Catholic, No. 19 Serra (G) vs. No. 22 Liberty (Bakersfield) and No. 21 Mater Dei Catholic vs. No. 25 Central Catholic. Go inside to see why Cathedral Catholic dropped one...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group of the rankings are done for the season, but they are moving up or down depending on how the last teams they lost to are doing. That means moving up this week are Buchanan of Clovis and Jesuit of Carmichael. There’s also one new team as Valley...
Saturday CIF Regional Scoreboard
There were no historic scoring shootouts or earth-shaking upsets like on Friday, but plenty of impressive winners, including Liberty (Bakersfield) & Serra (Gardena) in the two D1-A contests. Other NorCal/SoCal champs are Wilcox, Scripps Ranch, McClymonds, Birmingham, Sacred Heart Cathedral of SF, Northview, Sacred Heart Prep, Righetti, Salesian (Richmond), Arlington and those mighty mountain men […]
Friday CIF Regional Scoreboard
For the first time since the modern day CIF state championships began in 2006, the green-and-silver colors of Concord De La Salle will be missing after the Spartans were upset at home by Folsom in the D1-AA regional final. The Bulldogs will play a familiar foe in next week’s state championship, Cathedral Catholic of San […]
TOP 10 Regional Finals Since 2012
It’s been since 2012 when the CIF has had Northern California and Southern California regional football finals. It’s not yet been 10 years, but there’s been some high-octane shootouts, super-close finishes and amazing comebacks. With this year’s games slated for Friday & Saturday, here’s a look at our top 10 games. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES […]
State/Regional Matchups Revealed
In the most anticipated decision of the day, Serra of San Mateo gains the NorCal berth into the CIF Open Division state final opposite national No. 1 ranked Mater Dei from the south. A few teams were much higher and a few were much lower than expected on the two sides of games from Division […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
After a quick start, No. 2 Servite can’t do much for three quarters and falls to No. 1 Mater Dei on Friday in the CIF Southern Section D1 championship. The bigger question after the night, though, involves which team the Monarchs will play on Dec. 11 in the CIF Open Division state final as unbeaten […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Biggest winners added from Saturday: Cathedral Catholic, Serra (San Mateo) & Folsom. On Friday, in what could be the greatest CIF section semifinals in California history and the first we know of in which all four were the top four ranked teams in the state, No. 1 Mater Dei tops No. 4 Centennial of Corona […]
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
The first teams earning berths will be coming this week from the CIF North Coast Section & CIF San Diego Section Open Divisions. The losing team in the NCS, however, will not be finished for the season but it will be in San Diego. The NorCal board stayed the same with no projected section champions...
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
All teams on these bowl boards are now in section playoffs after the regular season ended last week in the CIF North Coast, Central Coast and Northern Sections. The projected top seeds from the CCS didn’t happen after St. Francis at the top, so some of those bowl picks have changed in the north. Four...
