For this sixth stop in our tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads, we go from the southern part of the great Central Valley to the far north. The CIF Northern Section is still a place where small schools can play their own special brand of football. Bigger schools from...
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Preseason All-Central Section FB Team
After the Sac-Joaquin Section, the next stop in our tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads is just to the south for the CIF Central Section. Among the schools with more than one player on first team are Central of Fresno, Liberty of Bakersfield, Buchanan of Clovis, Garces of Bakersfield...
RBs/WRs Get All State Records Updated
All of our major offensive individual categories that are maintained as all-time California high school football records are now ready to go for the 2022 season. Most categories contain more than 100 players and they include all games played in the state back to 1890. We earlier did a post about passing records. Today, it’s […]
Preseason All-Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
We now head to the north for the third stop in a tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads. This time, it’s our home base area with the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. Folsom is the obvious team to beat and has many written up on this team. Among other schools with...
Warren (Downey) FB History Highlights
There was only one really good team at Warren of Downey going from its first season in 1956 until just the last two seasons (both in 2021). The Bears really struggled in the early 2010s, but have turned it around under head coaches Raul Lara and Kevin Pearson. Go inside for a snapshot look at […]
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
For the second stop in a tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads, we hit Orange County of the CIF Southern Section. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Mater Dei is the dominant program in the county, but there are a bunch of great players ready to roll from schools...
Preseason All-Inland Empire FB Team
It’s time to get going with our annual series of preseason football outlooks from different parts of the state through the selection of preseason honor squads. For this first stop, we begin our tour with the Inland Empire area of the CIF Southern Section. This team is for schools from Riverside and San Bernardino counties...
Jax Leatherwood: Grid-Hoop State POY
It’s just too hard to beat a grid-hooper like the junior quarterback-power forward from Scripps Ranch of San Diego, who played key roles on football and basketball teams that both won CIF state titles. Leatherwood adds this statewide honor to already being named as the San Diego Union-Tribune Male Athlete of the Year. Note: We’ve […]
FB Team Records: All-Time Wins & More
While still working on several major honors still to come for the 2022 baseball and softball seasons plus athletes of the year and Grid-Hoop all-state teams, we’re also getting all of our exclusive state records in football updated before the start of the 2022 fall season. Here’s a look at two big ones: schools with […]
