Category Archives: football
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
New teams on the list this week include Vista del Lago of Moreno Valley, La Quinta (LQ), St. Mary’s of Berkeley and Westminster. Many of the teams from our first run-through of the NorCal and SoCal sides of regional matchups were on first-round section playoff byes, but that will change this week. We also have...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Two QBs with humongous passing totals in playoff wins were from Max Ruff of St. Margaret’s (SJ Capistrano) and Aleks Wojcik from Mar Vista of Imperial Beach. For the first time, we also have season-ending outings in playoff losses that...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the third straight week we accomplish the main goal of this feature by tracking potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book and uncovering a few diamonds in the rough who don’t always get big-time attention. Our stops this week in Southern California are in Santa Paula, Torrance and San Bernardino, while in […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
CIF section playoffs everywhere now have three weeks to go, but the biggest games are still to come. For this week’s rankings, we just had to include JSerra of San Juan Capistrano as a top 10 team to salute a great comeback season from 2-8 a year ago and to acknowledge a difficult win last...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
Unfortunately, due to the difficulty of many competitive equity based section playoff brackets, we already have some very good teams that are likely going to finish in the final State TOP 50 who have lost to other highly ranked teams and seasons are complete. Partly due to that, there are three new teams this week...
Nichelson Inspires With All-Around Play
Manteca’s Blake Nichelson will start the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D2 playoffs next week with 79 career touchdowns and a firm commitment to Florida State. It’s his versatility to literally play any position on the field, however, that can spark lively conversations about how his development as a player will evolve in future seasons. Note: We […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Many of the very best teams at the top of the state had first-round section playoff byes this week, but starting with No. 10 Edison of Huntington Beach and moving down there were some super close thrillers that ended the season for many deserving teams, including the Chargers. Up north, No. 4 Serra (San Mateo) […]
1st NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
There will be tons of movement on both sides of our board from now until that Sunday in four weeks when the CIF announces on which teams will be playing each other in this year’s regional & state title football games. Since we now have pairings and top seeds available in most CIF sections of […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Once again this week we fulfill the object of this feature which also is meant to track potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book and find hidden talent that doesn’t always find the spotlight other than on a local level. This week we visit San Mateo, Salinas and Sacramento in Northern California, and […]
