Category Archives: football
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 13th week as part of the 2021-22 school year. Boys and girls basketball players are now included along with football for the second time. In football, we have several players featured, including Evan Peaker from...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This week is a week of strange twists in Northern California. We have a defensive honoree from Novato who will face the special teams winner from Sutter this week, and who also is in a race with the this week’s offensive award winner from Santa Clara for the NorCal rushing lead. Our Southern California stops […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With the end of the season in sight now that all section championships are in the books, Serra of San Mateo joins the top five and Lutheran of Orange joins the top 10. Folsom and Pittsburg both move up while three teams going into this first group are led by new No. 18 Helix of...
NEW State TOP FB Ranks (26-50)
Two section champions getting solid bumps among this group of teams are Central Catholic of Modesto (now No. 29) and Bullard of Fresno (unranked previously). Newcomers in addition to the Knights are San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno, Simi Valley and Salinas. Go inside for breakdowns of all of these teams plus more than 20 other...
State/Regional Matchups Revealed
In the most anticipated decision of the day, Serra of San Mateo gains the NorCal berth into the CIF Open Division state final opposite national No. 1 ranked Mater Dei from the south. A few teams were much higher and a few were much lower than expected on the two sides of games from Division […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
After a quick start, No. 2 Servite can’t do much for three quarters and falls to No. 1 Mater Dei on Friday in the CIF Southern Section D1 championship. The bigger question after the night, though, involves which team the Monarchs will play on Dec. 11 in the CIF Open Division state final as unbeaten […]
NEW NorCal/SoCal CIF Bowl Projections
There’s been a lot of movement on both sides of our board looking ahead to the CIF announcing on Sunday which teams will be playing each other in this year’s regional & state title football games. Plus, we have six new teams listed in the north with a whopping 12 in the south. It still […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
As the funnel narrows, the performances in each of the three categories for Northern and Southern California are not always earth shattering but this week we dug deep in a couple of places to come up with our six honorees. We start out in the LA City Section in Canoga Park, head south to San […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Friday’s CIF Southern Section D1 championship between longtime Orange County rivals Mater Dei and Servite isn’t just their first football meeting in a section final. It’s also the first between them as the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state. This week’s new order also shows Alemany of Mission Hills and Cathedral Catholic...
