Category Archives: football
CIF Saturday State Finals (SoCal)
Mater Dei caps unbeaten, state and national No. 1 season with rout of San Mateo Serra in Open Division. It’s too bad, though, the school handled its post-game interactions with the media the way it did. That other Serra, from Gardena, did much better in D1-A with a win over Liberty of Bakersfield. The day […]
CIF San Diego-style Friday State Finals
Cathedral Catholic beats Folsom in CIF D1-AA state championship to earn its third overall state title and hand the Bulldogs their first CIF state final loss in their fifth appearance. The Dons also did it a few hours after Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista gave the San Diego Section a win in the CIF […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports and is now in its 14th week as part of the 2021-22 school year. Boys and girls basketball players are now included along with football for the third time plus we have a major accomplishment in coaching in water polo....
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
It should be an edge for teams from Southern California playing at Saddleback College this weekend on Friday & Saturday, but a bulk of the teams from Northern California playing at home on Saturday in Divisions 3-AA down to 7-A figure to win and some by multi-score margins. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
With the funnel narrowing all the way down to the CIF state championships, all good things must come to an end and this is the final week of these honors for football. There will be MVPs from every CIF state final in all divisions (as there have been for all previous state finals since 2006) […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
For this week’s CIF state finals it will be No. 1 Mater Dei vs. No. 5 Serra (SM), No. 8 Folsom vs. No. 10 Cathedral Catholic, No. 19 Serra (G) vs. No. 22 Liberty (Bakersfield) and No. 21 Mater Dei Catholic vs. No. 25 Central Catholic. Go inside to see why Cathedral Catholic dropped one...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group of the rankings are done for the season, but they are moving up or down depending on how the last teams they lost to are doing. That means moving up this week are Buchanan of Clovis and Jesuit of Carmichael. There’s also one new team as Valley...
Saturday CIF Regional Scoreboard
There were no historic scoring shootouts or earth-shaking upsets like on Friday, but plenty of impressive winners, including Liberty (Bakersfield) & Serra (Gardena) in the two D1-A contests. Other NorCal/SoCal champs are Wilcox, Scripps Ranch, McClymonds, Birmingham, Sacred Heart Cathedral of SF, Northview, Sacred Heart Prep, Righetti, Salesian (Richmond), Arlington and those mighty mountain men […]
Friday CIF Regional Scoreboard
For the first time since the modern day CIF state championships began in 2006, the green-and-silver colors of Concord De La Salle will be missing after the Spartans were upset at home by Folsom in the D1-AA regional final. The Bulldogs will play a familiar foe in next week’s state championship, Cathedral Catholic of San […]
TOP 10 Regional Finals Since 2012
It’s been since 2012 when the CIF has had Northern California and Southern California regional football finals. It’s not yet been 10 years, but there’s been some high-octane shootouts, super-close finishes and amazing comebacks. With this year’s games slated for Friday & Saturday, here’s a look at our top 10 games. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES […]
