We have picked one for every game we’ve seen since the first one of the modern era in 2006, and have chosen one based on posted stats & media coverage for every other state final. Perhaps the hardest one this year was in the Open Division, but it just had to be a member of […]
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Recaps: CIF Saturday Finals (NorCal)
For all of the games played on a rainy, often muddy night in Northern California on Saturday, two of the teams traveling from SoCal were able to pull off wins — Laguna Hills in D3-A and Classical Academy of Escondido in D-6AA. None of the SoCal teams posted wins in these games last season. The […]
Bosco Romp Tops CIF Saturday Finals
Liberty of Bakersfield and Granite Hills of El Cajon also earn CIF state titles in Saturday games at Saddleback College. St. John Bosco’s 45-0 victory over Serra of San Mateo is the powerhouse program’s fourth in the Open Division since 2013 and it’s the sixth straight season (in seven years) in which either the Braves […]
History-Making CIF Friday FB Finals
De La Salle of Concord is denied in its attempt to break state record for most state titles by a Lincoln of San Diego squad that won its first-ever crown in Friday’s CIF D1-AA championship. In the D2-AA state final, Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista wins its second in a row and prevents McClymonds […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
Wet weather is forecast for the Saturday games at home sites in Northern California, but it should be okay for the five games being played on Friday and Saturday at Saddleback College. Schools looking to win state titles for the first time are plentiful. Those looking for more include the school tied for the most […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Since anyone from football will have a big outing this week in a state final and every one of those will be written up separately, this feature also will switch almost all to basketball next week. Football’s best this week...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
During the regular season we had in the range of 500 games to choose from for these honors but once the playoffs started the funnel narrows as the field is basically halved each week until this final week of honoring football players when we only had 26 games in the whole state. Despite that fact, […]
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 St. John Bosco facing No. 3 Serra of San Mateo in the CIF Open Division final on Saturday at Saddleback College. The rest of the top 10 this week has been reshuffled with the D1-AA regional results as De La Salle moved up following its win over Folsom and Lincoln...
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (26-50)
CIF state finalists McClymonds of Oakland and Granite Hills of El Cajon both move up within this group. We also tried to get San Ramon Valley into the 50th spot, but head-to-head losses didn’t work out and the Wolves would be No. 51. Newcomers this week are all done for the season but go in...