Monday results are included this week since we also wanted to wait for the CIF Southern Section playoff pairings that also were released on Monday. We break down some of those pairings and explain why some of the rankings don’t match the seeds. The top six from last week remain the same with lots of...
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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Losing one game at the National High School Invitational does not drop Orange Lutheran from the No. 1 California ranking. There also were no changes this week until No. 8. Three teams all playing in this week’s NorCal part of the annual Boras Classic – Palo Alto, Cardinal Newman and Woodcreek – all got big...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Santa Margarita sweeps JSerra to go to 12-0 and replaces Servite with No. 2 state ranking behind No. 1 Orange Lutheran. No, they don’t play each other this week, but both have tough three-game sets in the Trinity League. Others getting big bumps include new No. 6 California of San Ramon and new No. 10...
All-State FB 2020-21: Medium Schools
State D3 Team of the Year Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) & runner-up Marin Catholic (Kentfield) both get players onto this teams, along with several schools that were D2 for our final state rankings. Other schools with more than one honoree include Culver City, La Jolla, La Serna of Whittier, Clayton Valley of Concord, Pacifica of […]
More State Football Players of Year
Check inside this post for the honorees who have been chosen among juniors, sophomores, medium schools and small schools. Our defensive state player of the year is the same person who is Mr. Football so there’s no extra pick for that this time. The Trinity League also gets the Junior and Sophomore State Players of […]
More State FB Teams of the Year
With no CIF section or state playoff games for this spring season, we reverted back to our longstanding tradition of ranking teams in five separate divisions and have chosen a No. 1 team for each one (even though those final rankings are still not done yet) plus we also have our latest Public School State […]
1ST LOOK: Five-Division FB Rankings
With no upcoming playoffs to consider and limited games, it’s super-hard to do rankings in this same five-division format that was begun more than 40 years ago by Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis. But it was super-hard for all of the players and coaches to be able to play at all during this school year […]
Fall CIF finals cancelled/season delayed
With the Coronavirus pandemic surging at its worst levels yet in the state, the California Interscholastic Federation announced on Tuesday that there will be no start of fall sports practices in the state in December as scheduled and that all fall sports state regional and state championships (including football) will be cancelled. An announcement like […]
All Football State Records Updated
All of the exclusive state football records on this site have now been completely updated with the final categories done including team defense, team offensive yards, league and section records plus decade-by-decade leaders for best records. We have a new leader for best record since 1970, we have 36 teams now listed for best records...
Football Coaching Milestones 2019
The list of those with 300 wins continues to grow, but after a season in which we lost a coach on the 300-win list there were two more who retired. That means next season we will be down to just one with 300 or more still going and that coach, Santa Ana Mater Dei’s Bruce […]
