Some are easy, some are hard and we obviously have to do this without seeing all of the games in person. But we have an MVP for every CIF state championship game played since 2006 when the current event was renewed for the first time since 1927. The tradition continues from Dash Beierly of Mater […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei and De La Salle will head into the CIF Open Division state final at No. 1 and No. 4 in the state. The big news this week among these teams is Newbury Park going from No. 15 up to No. 9. Unlike top seed Murrieta Valley in the CIFSS D2 playoffs, the Panthers...
NEW Regional Bowl Game Projections
Here’s where we have things lined up before this weekend’s CIF section championship games. Several already are done with teams locked into slots on our board. We have moved up both McClymonds in the north and Narbonne in the south, but admit those are the two big wild cards difficult to know how the CIF...
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 […]
Second Half Surge For No. 1 Mater Dei
In the first game of the season on Thursday for state No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana and the first game for new head coach Raul Lara, No. 3 Centennial (Corona) only trailed 22-17 at halftime. Then the vaunted MD defense took over in the second half in a 42-25 win. Not having top […]
Preseason All-Inland Empire FB Team
Here’s the fourth stop in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season. This also is the third one of five we do for the massive CIF Southern Section. The Inland Empire region will again be the domain of powerhouse Corona Centennial. Strong returnees also are at Rancho...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For this first week of football, in addition to the two player of the week honorees who gained state record listings, we have one team in the records that gladly saw its total stopped since it was Lompoc Cabrillo with...
