Category Archives: Preseason coverage

Preseason NCS Redwood Empire Team

We stay inside the CIF North Coast Section for our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California, going from the East Bay portion of the section to the Redwood Empire. We do the Redwood Empire separately since it is the home of associate editor Harold Abend as...

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Preseason NCS East Bay FB Team

Continuing to bounce around the state, our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This team also includes players from the very small CIF Oakland Section mixed in. Pittsburg and De La Salle both have the...

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Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)

A team with a QB committed to UCLA begins this group of ranked squads. Early big games such as Helix of La Mesa vs St. Francis of Mountain View and Newbury Park hosting Long Beach Millikan also were attractive enough to us to put both teams in these rankings. We do look at others doing […]

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Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-10)

It’s now up to nine straight seasons that either Mater Dei of Santa Ana or St. John Bosco of Bellflower has started out No. 1 in the state and for 2024 that means the Monarchs are in that position. They are the defending CIF Open Division state champions and they also have a lot more […]

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Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (11-30)

The fourth highest team from the Trinity League leads off this group of teams. Don’t worry, the other two teams aren’t far behind. This group also includes the preseason top teams to start the season in the CIF Central Coast Section and CIF Central Section. Another team in this group was only 4-8 last season, […]

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Preseason CIFSS Inland Empire Team

After the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section a few days ago, we head back south for our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California. The Inland Empire for these purposes includes the high desert area of San Bernardino County and the Palm Springs region of Riverside County. Once again, Corona Centennial rules supreme...

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Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team

For this next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around the state we travel back up north for a look at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. This has been the domain of Folsom and the Bulldogs have a couple of big transfers added into their mix of stellar returnees off...

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Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team

After San Diego, we go back up the road for our series of preseason all-section or all-area teams around the state with a look at the CIF L.A. City Section. At its strongest, L.A. City Section football was dominated by long-time Marine League powers Carson and Banning of Wilmington, and this year it looks like...

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RBs in the All-Time State Records

There are only a handful of returning runningbacks in the state this season who already have their names in the state record lists that were started and have been maintained by Cal-Hi Sports for four decades. Will the CIF Central Section have most of the record-breakers once again? All major categories are now updated and […]

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Preseason All-San Diego Sec FB Team

We head even further south than Long Beach in the next stop in our annual tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads. This is for the CIF San Diego Section, which had three unbeaten teams plus another that had its only loss in overtime in last season’s Open Division playoffs....

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