Category Archives: football
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
CIF section playoff pairings are out for most of the state and in the CIF Southern Section the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 teams in these rankings also earned the top four seeds in Division I. This week’s rankings also sees rises for JSerra (SJ Capistrano) and Lincoln (San Diego). Plus,...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
This group is led this week by two 10-0 teams going into the top 50 for the first time this season and the first time in awhile — Poway & Downey of Modesto. We also have several teams getting upward shifts, including Clovis West of Fresno and St. Francis of Mountain View. FOR ARCHIVES OF...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday updates added. All of the results are in before pairings were announced Saturday in one section with others coming on Sunday. The regular season still has one week to go in the S.F. Bay Area sections. The biggest winners of the night — with no upsets in the top 10 — were Lincoln of […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Oak Hills cements No. 1 medium school ranking with big win over Apple Valley. Sacred Heart Prep also still No. 1 for small schools with big test coming up Saturday. Newcomers are Crean Lutheran for medium and Mission Prep for small. Note: We will be doing our first look at projected CIF regional bowl game...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We begin with an emerging Bay Area QB who passed for 509 yards in one game. We also have established one freshman state passing record already set by Newbury Park’s Brady Smigiel. Plus, we have a record held at Helix...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
From the outset of this feature that started many years ago, the object has been 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, and this week we have both. We start out in Southern California in […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We’re down to one week to go for the regular season in most places around the state. The most changes in this week’s rankings were caused by Sierra Canyon’s victory over previous No. 9 Chaminade. It wasn’t so much a big jump for the Trailblazers, but a big drop for the Eagles. Edison of Huntington...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
Shocker scores in the CIF Central Section causes a lot of changes. Liberty of Bakersfield gets our nod for highest ranking while newcomer Central of Fresno comes in at No. 38 right behind a San Joaquin Memorial squad that it has lost to. Other newcomers are Central Catholic of Modesto, Bishop Diego of Santa Barbara...
Who Will Be First-Ever Frosh POY?
There has never been a Cal-Hi Sports State Freshman Football Player of the Year, but there will be one named after the 2022 season is in the books. Here’s a quick look at five top contenders, why we’re doing this now, if we’ll do our usual approach of going back and naming one historically over […]
Freshman FB Players To Watch (Part 1)
As a companion list to a group of those considered more near the top of the state to be the first-ever State Freshman Player of the Year, here’s a more comprehensive list of those now on our radar screen as ninth graders we’ll likely be following for the next few years. FOR INTRO ABOUT FIRST-EVER...
