Category Archives: Preseason coverage
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 […]
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
As L.A. City section programs look to recover from the fallout of COVID-19, the talent among the skill positions is recovering nicely, although the trench talent still has a long way to go to match the level of a generation ago. The participation numbers also are up after 16 section programs didn’t field a team in 2020 and there are a...
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (11-30)
This group starts with Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth, which is continuing to show signs of building the kind of program that wants to go for everything. We also have the top two teams from the CIF San Diego Section that are playing each other in their first game plus we have two teams — Long […]
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)
Nine of the teams in this group did not appear in the final State TOP 50 for the 2021 season. Those teams look good in part due to key transfer quarterbacks — such as at Rancho Cucamonga and Chaminade of West Hills. There also are those with big totals of returning starters such as JSerra […]
Preseason All-NCS Redwood Empire
This region of the NCS captured four section titles and two CIF state titles last season. One of the players on this team transferred from one school (San Marin of Novato) that won a CIF state title to another one (Marin Catholic). Rancho Cotate of Rohnert Park and Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa also have...
