A few of this week’s six State football Players of the Week, and one player from a losing team, came close to cracking the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book but none made the grade. Besides tracking potential entries for the record book, the second goal of this feature is to uncover hidden talent that normally […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
The two big results that shook up this week’s rankings were St. Ignatius of San Francisco posting a 21-20 win over previous No. 9 Serra of San Mateo and Serra of Gardena exploding past previous No. 15 Los Alamitos. Both of those teams were in our top 50 and both need to get bumped up...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are two new teams in this week’s breakdowns of the state’s top 50 teams, one of them that got in for beating a previously ranked team and the other going in based on previous that was on a bye last Friday. Teams that are showing with modest gains this week include St. Mary’s of...
What We Saw: SD Lincoln at Grant
Two schools that one coach called “mirror images” of each other met in a matchup on Friday in Sacramento of highly ranked teams within the CIF San Diego Section & CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. The visitors from Lincoln High of San Diego flexed their muscles with a 49-16 win over Grant. Both teams are to be […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
It was considered to move up Oak Hills past Newbury Park in medium, but dropping a No. 1 team is just something we never do. Los Gatos moves up to No. 3 and El Cerrito jumps from No. 8 to No. 4. Beaumont and San Jacinto also are medium schools newcomers. For small schools, the...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We explain this week why we are calling the move by Davis High up north not to play Folsom this week “a default” and not “a forfeit.” Top stat stars of the week include multi-purpose QBs Xzavior Guess of El Modena (Orange) and Beau David of Ukiah. We also feature Christian Brothers tackling machine Josiah...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We haven’t had a team jump from unranked into the top list, but there was no choice to do that this week for Leuzinger of Lawndale after its upset of previous No. 6 Santa Margarita. There also are two teams that moved up this week after losses — Sierra Canyon and Pittsburg — plus Los...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are three newcomers this week, but both San Juan Hills and El Cerrito have been in there before. The other is Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa, which is new for this season but has been in the top 50 many times in its history. We also have nice bumps for Mission Hills of San...
What We Saw: DLS vs St. Mary’s
Despite scoring on the opening kickoff, NorCal No. 1 and state No. 7 De La Salle needed to survive an incredible last touchdown by St. Mary’s of Stockton with an unsuccessful onside kick by the Rams to post a 38-35 victory. It was the first road game for the Spartans and it was a lack...
