Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Redwood Empire Football Weekend
There wasn’t a wine glass in sight as the schedule for the final weekend of the regular season in the CIF North Coast Section made it possible to see San Marin of Novato (9-0) play Marin Catholic of Kentfield (9-0) plus Windsor (7-1-1) play Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (9-0) on back-to-back days. Here’s what […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
For medium schools, Grant of Sacramento only drops one spot after one-point loss to Monterey Trail (which is large schools). Marin Catholic and San Marin also both up one spot and both now in top 10 as buildup for their game next week gets going. For small schools, Sonora not only jumps in as a...
MD-Bosco & Centennial Highlights
For perhaps the first time in our history (which goes back 45 plus years), we were able to see the top three ranked teams in the state in the regular season on the same weekend. The top two of them, of course, played each other on Friday night in Bellflower. But on Thursday night it […]
MD & Bosco Should Go National At End
CIF Open Division state championship also should match a newly devised CIF Southern Section champion – let’s call it D1A – against the No. 1 ranked section champ from the north. As the state’s top two teams for seven of the last eight years battle it out this weekend, go through this column and let […]
CIF top division state fb finals may split
The California Interscholastic Federation released more details this week about how it will conduct upcoming state football championships under a new format in which all of the title games will be played at one of three junior colleges in Southern California. We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. To join our Gold Club […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
We’re doing a combo column this week on our trip to see two of the state’s top three small school football teams face off, an early look at CIF state/regional bowl possibilities for Clovis North and why a win by Southwest High of San Diego caused us to go through our book of all-time win-loss […]
State FB Record Book Expands Again
It’s a continuing process of adding categories and doing updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state football record archives. This week, we’ve added new categories for total offense by individuals. This includes yardage, scoring and points accountable for during a season and career. Go inside to see why we got motivated to add these categories […]
CdM, Bosco honor 16-0 teams
Both Corona del Mar of Newport Beach and St. John Bosco of Bellflower recently hosted on-the-field celebrations with members of their football teams from 2013, which became the first teams in state history to end with 16-0 records. As a salute to what both teams did 10 years ago on the same day, here’s a […]
State FB Playoffs: Early Season Primer
It’s never too early to start thinking about CIF state football championships, especially when just about every year there are changes in some of the CIF section playoff formats that are sure to impact what happens when the regional games are selected. The biggest changes this year are in the CCS and in the Sac-Joaquin. […]
More State Girls Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Juju Watkins, we have others selected as the best among girls athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2022-23 school year. We have seen the father of one of them win a CIF state title in basketball. We also had […]
