Category Archives: football
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We kick off the first week of the 2022 season with Southern California in full swing but in Northern California the CIF North Coast Section and CIF Central Coast Section were not. We also have two entries into the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book right out of the box in our first week, with a […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
The only change to the top 10 this week is Cathedral Catholic of San Diego moving into the No. 10 position, which is almost back to where the Dons stood after they won 2021 CIF D1-AA state title. There’s also JSerra of San Juan Capistrano shooting up to No. 12 and Orange Lutheran going up...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Corona del Mar of Newport Beach, Madison of San Diego and San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno are all three teams that moved up five spots this week. Edison of Huntington Beach and Apple Valley did even much better than that. Newcomers are Granite Bay, West Ranch of Valencia and Manteca. FOR ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
With No. 2 St. John Bosco waiting to open up on a huge road trip next week in Texas, No. 1 Mater Dei did start out this week and rolled past a top team from a different state. The biggest loss on Friday may have been an injury as big-time TE Walker Lyons of Folsom […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
This is the final stop in our tour of California through various preseason all-section, all-county or all-area football teams. We planned for the CIF Central Coast Section to go last since its teams don’t start playing for one week later than the rest of the state. Serra of San Mateo is the leader with five...
Medium/Small School Watch List
Among those to watch among schools we think will be in the D2-A to D-4AA range of the CIF state bowl games if they were to win a section title are Apple Valley, Central Valley Christian of Visalia, Vanden of Fairfield, Kingsburg, Marin Catholic and Cajon of San Bernardino. For the small schools (roughly D-4A […]
Preseason CIFSS SGV-Whittier & More
This will be the next to last stop in our tour of California through various preseason all-section, all-county or all-area football teams. This time, we complete the CIF Southern Section with a look at top returning players from the San Gabriel, Santa Clarita & Antelope valleys. Bishop Amat of La Puente is the leading team....
Preseason All-State Football Teams
We have first team, second team, third team just missed and a top 12 chart of the leading Mr. Football State Player of the Year candidates. This is the 36th straight year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. Note: There are no writeups for each player (like there will be for the […]
Inside new Calif HS FB Hall of Fame list
On Monday, the CIF and the Rose Bowl announced the names of the 100 players and 13 coaches who will be part of the first inaugural class of the new California High School Football Hall of Fame. At Cal-Hi Sports, we were a key part of the voting process and were worried about a lack […]
