Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings

NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

The first five are all now from the CIF Southern Section as Mission Viejo moves up from No. 6 following Folsom’s loss to De La Salle. The new No. 1 for NorCal is Serra of San Mateo, but the Padres and St. Francis of Mountain View (team with win vs. DLS) are in the same...

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NorCal vs. SoCal: Endless Debate

It was after all games were played during the 1992 high school football season in the state when we put together a cover story for Student Sports Magazine that allowed players from the top-ranked teams to come together for a photo shoot. The one who came down to Southern California to represent CIF North Coast...

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Season Replayed: Boys Hoops 1999

This season had it all from perhaps the most surprising D1 state champion in the 40-plus years of the CIF state championships plus the start of a three-year run at the top of D2 by Dominguez of Compton, a series of memorable individual duels and the final game in a legendary career of one of...

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Season Replayed: Boys Hoops 1985

Imagine what might happen today if the massive CIF Southern Section were not part of a state championship? Don’t imagine. That’s what happened for the 1984-85 basketball season. It set up a series of insanely difficult final state rankings and team of the year announcements, especially when the top two divisional boys champions in the...

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Boys BB Schools of Century (So Far)

Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus football, girls basketball, softball and baseball, here’s the final list of this series for boys basketball. The No. 1 total, by a wide margin, was compiled...

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Football Schools of Century (So Far)

Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus girls basketball, softball and baseball, here’s the list for football. With no 2020 season counted, the No. 1 position for De La Salle of Concord should...

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Softball Schools of Century (So Far)

Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus girls basketball and baseball, here’s the list for softball. The No. 1 slot belonging to Norco isn’t a surprise, but it also ended up that the...

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Baseball Schools of Century (So Far)

Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) and girls basketball, here’s the list for baseball. The top four probably would be the ones most people might guess with the leader being Chatsworth. The Chancellors...

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1994 Season Replayed (Final)

This is how the season looked after it was completed in 1994. This is the second of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...

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Girls BB Schools of the Century (So Far)

After doing a State Schools of the Century (so far) list several days ago based on a points system, we came up with one for teams based on top 20 state rankings finishes since the 1999-2000 school year. The first group figured out is for girls basketball. The leader, Long Beach Poly, has only been...

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