Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Mater Dei State Team of Year 2023
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 2023. This is the first No. 1 finish for the Monarchs in the state with a different head coach than Bruce […]
More State FB Teams of the Year
With just a one-point loss to St. John Bosco in the CIFSS D1 semifinals, Centennial of Corona is the 2023 State Public Schools Team of the Year. We also have La Serna of Whittier (medium schools) and Escalon (small schools) collecting final No. 1 honors. Plus, there are separate teams of the year for D3 […]
Saturday CIF State FB Finals
Mater Dei gains its fourth CIF state title since 2017 with a 35-0 triumph against Serra of San Mateo in the Open Division championship. Other winners in games at Saddleback College were Folsom in D1-A and Acalanes of Lafayette in D3A-A. We also have all winners with highlights/notes from all games at El Camino College […]
Friday CIF State Football Finals
Mission Viejo captures its second CIF state title with a 27-14 win over De La Salle in the D1-AA championship. It also shows the relative strength of the elite teams in the CIF Southern Section over the rest of the state. The SoCal teams also remained unbeaten at Saddleback College earlier in the night with […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
While Mater Dei is a solid favorite to win its fourth CIF Open Division state title and the De La Salle-Mission Viejo matchup in D1-AA looks like a toss up, the NorCal team is favored in just about all of the other 14 CIF state finals coming up this weekend at three JC stadiums in […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Heading into this week’s CIF state championships, it will be No. 1 Mater Dei vs No. 4 Serra (San Mateo) plus new No. 6 De La Salle vs new No. 8 Mission Viejo and new No. 7 Folsom vs new No. 23 St. Bonaventure. Grant of Sacramento also goes up five spots. San Clemente also...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Biggest risers are La Serna of Whittier and one of the teams that the Lancers lost to earlier this season (Damien). We also have two newcomers this week, one of which was 10-0 in the regular season before a one-point loss in the playoffs. The other is CIF D2-A state title finalist Central Valley Christian,...
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
It’s a second straight stunning loss for a top San Diego Section team, this time as St. Augustine falls on the final play to St. Bonaventure of Ventura in D1-A South final. Folsom beats Pitt in the NorCal game while Los Gatos and Central Valley Christian won in the 2-A games in completely different ways. […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)
One of the most incredible finishes to a game you’d ever see and three unbeaten teams that all lost were just some of the storylines for the CIF regional championships that were played on Friday night. We’ll have a similar scoreboard on Sunday morning after all of the games played on Saturday for D1-A, D2-A, […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei goes back to the No. 1 spot it was in before last year’s CIF Southern Section championships and if recent history is a guide will stay there until St. John Bosco wins the next time in the series between the two schools. Pittsburg and Mission Viejo get big bumps, but are still playing...
