Releasing these teams on the same day as first team overall can tend to lessen the attention that these players receive, but we do it so people know right away which ones came the closest to first team. Still, these second team players are great in their own right and we know it’s almost a...
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FINAL State Ranks By Five Divisions
We’re still not done with final state football rankings. Here are the No. 1 teams for the 2019 season according to our traditional five-division state breakdowns: St. John Bosco (D1), Clayton Valley of Concord (D2), Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (D3), Ripon (D4) and Caruthers (D5). The No. 1 choice for D5 was the most...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are six newcomers this week, led by new No. 33 St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs after its big win over previous No. 28 Culver City. Three others still playing and going for section titles this week are Loyola of Los Angeles, San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno and Oceanside. We’ve also now reached that...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Vista Murrieta and Cardinal Newman make returns to the State Top 50 this week, but for different reasons. We also welcome in for the first time Oxnard and Steele Canyon of Spring Valley. One of those beat a previously ranked team to go in. The other is on track to be 9-0 when it faces...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
It has been no secret that Marin Catholic (Kentfield), Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) and Rancho Cotate (Rohnert Park) have been the class of the Redwood Empire portion of the CIF North Coast Section for recent years. But even after a realignment that sees the NCS going to a seven division format plus an 8-man division,...
State Stat Stars of the Week
In the midst of senior quarterbacks like Jayden Daniels (Cajon), Trent Tompkins (Fresno Central) and Nathan Lamb (Tulare) continuing to add to their totals, junior QB Jackson Pavitt of Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) steals the show by going 24 of 25 for 382 yards in a playoff game. We also go over why Fontana Kaiser’s...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Four was a magic number for several teams that went up four positions in this week’s rankings, including Long Beach Poly, Monterey Trail of Elk Grove, Lawndale and Heritage of Menifee. There were two teams, however, that got seven-spot jumps — new No. 33 Wilcox of Santa Clara and new No. 43 Murrieta Valley of...
