Mission Viejo does indeed move to No. 2 in place of St. John Bosco after its big loss to No. 1 Mater Dei, although that isn’t going to match computer rankings that will be used for the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De La Salle also joins top five for the first time this season,...
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What We Saw: MD Romps Past Bosco
Paced by the most disruptive front seven on defense that perhaps no high school team has ever had and an offense that has been getting more dynamic every week since the start of the season, state and national No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana turned its annual regular season showdown game against No. 2 […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Just like last week, the only new team in medium schools is playing a higher ranked team in its next game. Newbury Park still No. 1 for medium, which is the same for Bradshaw Christian in small. There are two newcomers this week in small schools: Arcata & Salesian of Los Angeles. Note: This is...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
There’s much to get caught up on this week since we were out of the country for two weeks and couldn’t get this feature back up and going last week, either. We begin with league win streaks where an 81-gamer ended two weeks ago and another we had at 70 ended officially last week but...
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 record book entry and also have chosen a player who will very likely crack the record book in the future for career passing yards. Our visits this […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We’ve arrived at that point of the season in which Mater Dei and St. John Bosco are playing in their Trinity League showdown. This time it’s MD at No. 1 and SJB at No. 2 in the state (and nation). Orange County teams are still in the 3-4-5 spots since No. 5 Servite’s losses are...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week there are two newcomers and they are Edison of Huntington Beach and Villa Park. Biggest movers included San Juan Hills of SJ Capistrano (up four spots) and Grant of Sacramento (also up four spots). We also have Rocklin and St. Mary’s of Stockton almost ready to go into the top 25. TO SEE...
What We Think: State Roundup 10/18
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco set up their annual regular season showdown with wins on Friday night in the Trinity League. Big NorCal winners on the night included state No. 6 De La Salle, No. 22 St. Francis of Mountain View and unranked but soon to be on the bubble […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
It’s been a couple of weeks since we were able to do these rankings due to travels in Europe, but we’re back and will be ranking teams now for the rest of 2024 season. There were changes for medium schools based on teams that had to go up into the overall State TOP 50, but...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Apologies for missing one week of these rankings last week, but we’re back from a trip to London and Paris and we’ll be going at full strength for the rest of the 2024 season. There was some shuffling among the top five teams since the last rankings mostly due to Servite of Anaheim getting a...
