This post has been updated after Saturday games and includes additional postponements. It was hard not to be distracted by the difficult events throughout the state heading into the weekend, but most CIF section playoff games were played with some having to be postponed due to smoke in the Bay Area from the Camp Fire […]
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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Many of the state’s best teams had the week off with first-round byes or open dates in CIF sectional playoffs. The major exception, of course, was in the Southern Section where even some top-seeded squads had playoff tests right out of the gate. State No. 1 St. John Bosco wasn’t one of them. The highest […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
League showdowns in the Inland Empire take center stage with the biggest upset of the night being No. 23 Upland losing to Rancho Cucamonga with one of the biggest wins turned in by Rancho Verde (Moreno Valley), which beat Heritage (Menifee) and is now poised to make a big move in the next rankings. Big […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Teams on the rise include Liberty of Brentwood joining the top 10 for the first time in school history (and that’s a school that goes back a long time), Torrey Pines up to No. 12 and Buchanan of Clovis up to No. 20. We also only dropped JSerra one position after its loss to Mater...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We go over why we’re moving up Corona Centennial to No. 2 this week instead of dropping previous No. 1 Mater Dei down to No. 2 behind new No. 1 St. John Bosco. This also is a good week to give JSerra a bump to No. 6 before the Lions take a crack at the...
Bosco thunders past Mater Dei
There won’t be any disagreements at the top of every national ranking next week after St. John Bosco tops Mater Dei on Saturday night in one of those rare No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchups. The Braves will now be favored to win the CIF Southern Section Division I title and CIF Open Division state […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Kicking off and letting either one of our two special teams honorees this week touch the ball might be a big mistake. And both Kris Hutson of St. John Bosco (Bellflower) and Sione Vaki from Liberty (Brentwood) are elite players in many other ways when they are on the field. In addition to those two, […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Folsom’s freaky 56-point half against Chaminade forces the Bulldogs to have to move up among the top 10 of this week’s rankings and they go from No. 8 to No. 6. They now are behind only the projected top four seeds for the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs along with De La Salle. We...
