Category Archives: football
All-State Football Nominees (NorCal)
We begin the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is the first of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are from the CIF sections in Northern California (except the Central Section). The Central, LA City & San Diego […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
Northern California teams will be trying to break precedent of playing poorly in games played at Saddleback College. We have two of the five coming down, however, getting a win. In games played at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium, almost all of the NorCal teams once again are coming in […]
1950s All-State Football Added
All-State football teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1950 season with the 1950s teams just added based on research. Earlier this year, we added the 1970s and 1960s. Similar to the newer decades and the teams we’ve picked in real time since 1979-80, many of the players are future NFL […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s the last week of the 2024 season and we have CIF state championships this weekend between No. 1 and No. 4 in the Open Division, No. 7 and No. 9 in D1-AA, No. 15 and No. 20 in D1-A and No. 21 and No. 24 in D2-AA. The likelihood is that CIF Southern Section...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group starts out this week with St. Francis of Mountain View and continues to new No. 50 Beaumont. Clovis North gets a bump due to Central of Fresno’s success and Twelve Bridges also moves up two more spots. There are a number of CIF Southern Section D2 playoff teams that will all receive final...
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
Edison of Huntington Beach opened its season with a loss to a Fresno team but now the Chargers can end it with a win over a Fresno team to win the CIF D1-A state title. Both the Chargers and Central of Fresno won in their regional finals on Saturday night. A new school in just […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)
Thrillers in D1-AA see wins in the final seconds for Lincoln of San Diego over Newbury Park and Pittsburg over Folsom. Newbury Park also wasn’t the only undefeated team to fall as both Hughson and Coalinga in D4-AA both lost and Winters lost as well. Plus, Grant of Sacramento and Pacifica of Oxnard get it […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
With football in the home stretch, this is the week in which boys and girls hoops gets added to this feature. We start with Mater Dei’s Gary McKnight moving to No. 2 all-time in the nation for coaching wins in boys hoops plus we have the 800th win for Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell. Carlsbad’s Jake...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
With our regional projections completed & games coming up this weekend, here’s a look at an updated set of Medium/Small Schools State Rankings. Newbury Park has already clinched a No. 1 finish for medium. The new No. 1 for small schools is Rio Hondo Prep of Arcadia. The CIF itself made Rio Hondo’s move to...
State Football Players of the Week
We’ve come to the end of the line for this year’s version of the State Football Players of the Week, but despite only having section title games to choose from with only several dozen teams in action, we have six very worthy honorees that will now have an opportunity to help their teams win a […]
