Category Archives: football
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There’s just two new teams ranked this week. One of them won its 14th consecutive section title while the other is the first team to go back into the rankings after having its season end more than two weeks ago. We also have big rises for Oak Ridge and Rocklin from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section...
What We Saw: De La Salle vs Pitt
The Pirates took a 7-3 lead into the fourth quarter, but came out on the short end of a 10-7 loss to De La Salle of Concord in Friday’s CIF North Coast Section Open Division championship. The Spartans (12-0) no doubt clinched the Northern California berth in the CIF Open Division state final to be […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We have two weeks of highlights to include this week and begin with why a team that ended 0-11 is going into the state record book. We also have a new state record holder for career receptions, another coach who has won 200 games or more (one that we saw win a CIF state title...
State Football Players of the Week
As the section playoffs narrow the funnel of those that can be selected, there are still some rather incredible performances from last weekend that deserve major props. One of them will be good enough to go into the state record all-time list for single-game rushing. All of them helped their teams collect playoff wins. The […]
NEW Regional Bowl Game Projections
There’s only one new team on the North side of our board and one switch of teams for a division since we first looked at the scenarios for CIF regional football finals. In the South, the Narbonne situation in the L.A. City Section changed again, we did a geographical switch of teams to set up...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Two teams that gained six spots this week are new No. 27 Granite Hills of El Cajon and new No. 28 Yorba Linda. The Marmonte League also shows its strength in this group with St. Bonaventure back inside the top 40 and Pacifica of Oxnard coming back in after amazing comeback win over Long Beach...
Public School No. 1 Decided?
Friday night’s matchup in the CIF Southern Section D1 quarterfinals between No. 4 seed Mission Viejo and No. 5 Corona Centennial was called a Public School Super Bowl by many in the Southern California media. But did Centennial’s 25-20 triumph over the Diablos wrap up another State Public School of the Year selection for the […]
CIF Regional Bowl Game Projections
Sorry, but last week’s medium/small school rankings really have to be the last ones until the final rankings when the season is over. Instead, now that every CIF section in the state has playoff pairings available, we need to get out our first run through of projections about which champions at the end of the […]
State Football Players of the Week
With many schools already contesting playoff games, it will become more difficult the last couple of weeks of this feature to find worthy candidates. However, for this week’s State Football Players of the Week, we found players worthy of more than local recognition, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we also […]
