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New State Top 20 Boys BB Rankings

Nike Extravaganza outcomes create some movement in this week’s rankings, with participant De La Salle of Concord and fellow NorCal program Serra of San Mateo the newcomers after big wins on Saturday night. Unbeaten Bishop Montgomery goes up a spot as well.

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Mr. Football 2012: Michael Hutchings

Linebacker for the Spartans also turned heads on special teams and made big plays in the last three CIF Open Division state bowl games. He’s the fourth State Player of the Year from the school.

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Five Cali football teams land in final Top 50 for nation

De La Salle is No. 3 in 2012 rankings by National Sports News Service, which is part of new historical-themed HighSchoolGridiron.com national web site.

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First article on Ladouceur was revealing

Our founder, the late Nelson Tennis, loved to look over a copy of Contra Costa Times page from Feb. 11, 1979 that introduced 24-year-old Bob Ladouceur as the new head coach at De La Salle. His quotes at the time are surprising given what he accomplished over the next 34 seasons in a head coaching […]

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Final Five-Divisional State Rankings

No. 1 teams according to the traditional way we’ve done state divisional football rankings since 1978 are De La Salle, Serra of Gardena, Madison of San Diego, Marin Catholic and Ferndale.

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Final NorCal CIF Bowl Rankings

James Logan of Union City, Pittsburg and Ripon gain positions at the end. Every division features expanded pecking order plus teams to watch for the 2013 season.

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Final, Expanded State Top 50 Football Rankings (Part 1)

Toughest choices are between Folsom and Granite Bay for No. 6 and No. 7 and what to do in the aftermath of the San Francisco Bay Area’s No. 2 team losing in the CIF Division III bowl game. Check Friday morning for the final CIF bowl game rankings for every division.

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De La Salle’s State Team of the Year streak now extends to four years too

With new regional bowl format, suspense for this selection has become obsolete. Still, we’ll continue to make it official since our list of honorees extends back to 1891.

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CIF Bowl Game Previews & Predictions

We’ll go for it again after getting the winner correct in nine of the 10 regional championship games from last weekend. To us, it looks like the predicted winner in three of the games are fairly easy to choose. We’ll have offensive, defensive and underclass players of the game posted on this site after each […]

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Week 16: NorCal CIF Bowl Rankings

With one week still to go, we start to dig even deeper to look for bubble teams with the strongest arguments to move up. Some are connected to this weekend’s CIF state bowl games. Others are not.

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