Category Archives: football
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With so few games being contested in the final week of football playoffs, as has been the tradition with this feature since even before we went to a full slate of CIF regional/state championships, this will be the final week for football players of the week as we switch to basketball. As one would expect, […]
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...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
CIFSS D3 champion St. Bonaventure just misses first group, but leads off this next 25 and moved up four spots. Section champions Los Gatos, La Serna and St. Augustine also move up this week. A group of three newcomers includes CIF North Coast Section D2 champion El Cerrito for the first time this season. The...
Enhanced Regional FB Matchups
We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with which section title each team won plus win-loss record plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. State title games will be played this year at Saddleback, El Camino & Pasadena junior...
Section Finals Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday championships have now been added, including big wins for Mission Viejo, St. Bonaventure and Rocklin. On Friday, state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana proved once again how hard it is for either itself or No. 1 St. John Bosco of Bellflower to beat the other one twice in the same season with […]
Thanksgiving Weekend FB Quiz
With the usual NFL games played in Detroit and Dallas plus the 49ers & Seahawks in the evening, the Thanksgiving football weekend has begun with a roaring start. In honor of those games plus this week’s CIF section championships being held throughout the state, we created a fun quiz that includes a question about Cowboys’ […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. In that strange game that Torres of Madera won in OT over Shafter from the Central Section, the...
CIF Regional Bowl Projections
Here’s the second run-through for all of the most likely scenarios for the CIF NorCal and SoCal regional bowl games, which will lead up to the CIF state football championships on Dec. 8-9 at three junior colleges in Southern California. Depending on how everything goes over Friday and Saturday, we may do another one late...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of the goals of this feature besides tracking potential entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book is to uncover hidden talent that might otherwise only get local recognition. However, with the field of teams pretty much halved last week with just a couple of exceptions, the narrowing funnel in the final weeks of […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 vs No. 2 once again in the CIF Southern Section D1 final on Friday at the L.A. Coliseum and again it will be St. John Bosco vs Mater Dei but at the end of the night will they be in the same order? Corona Centennial stays No. 3, but Serra...
