We were not able to get out to a Friday night game this week, and with many of the state’s top-ranked teams on first round section playoff byes, our focus became the plight of teams that were 10-0 in the regular season that did play in the CIF Southern Section, CIF L.A. City Section and...
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Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
There will be one more set of these rankings next week after the regular season concludes everywhere in the state. Then after that, this feature switches to our CIF regional bowl game championship projections. Final, overall medium/small school rankings then will be done at the end of the season. For medium this week, Cathedral of...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with a look at CIF section football records, how to figure them out from every section in the state and we have a difference with one particular section. We then look at the leaders for the regular season in passing, rushing, scoring and receiving and which ones might change with the regular season...
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s honorees include two remarkable kickers, one who kicked his second 50-yard field goal of the season and the other who’s a girl who had game-winning field goal that earned her team a league title. We also have a QB with eight TD passes in a game his team won, 90-46. The six we […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
This week’s order for the first 14 gets mixed up after Santa Margarita’s eye-opening 44-8 win over Servite of Anaheim. That forced the Eagles to come back up into the higher reaches of the first 25. Others getting boosts include Clovis East (up two), Murrieta Valley (up three) and St. Mary’s of Stockton (up three)....
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
For this group, the two teams that had to come way up from on the bubble to now be ranked in front of teams they just beat were Simi Valley and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills. Manteca also is a newcomer this week. Others getting bumps include San Juan Hills of SJ Capistrano, Grant...
What We Saw: Clovis East-Clovis North
Based on its 38-21 victory on Friday at Lamonica Stadium over defending CIF Central Section D1 champion Clovis North, thoughts of Clovis East doing the same for 2024 — including going 13-0 through the section playoffs — were impossible not to arise. The Timberwolves displayed a very effective short passing spread offense that could not […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Marin Catholic of Kentfield is the only new team ranked this week for either medium or small and jumps up high in preparation for its showdown game on Saturday against Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa. Los Gatos, Soquel and Tustin are other medium schools ranked teams that have big games this week. Bishop’s of La...
State Football Players of the Week
Besides uncovering hidden talent as one of the goals of this feature, we track entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this week we have a bit of an anomaly or a twist as we like to call it. We have plenty of hidden talent in our six State Football Players of the […]
