Our second stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honors is carved out of the massive CIF Southern Section. This is the one that is dominated by mythical national title contender St. John Bosco and includes other schools in the Long Beach, South Bay and San Gabriel Valley areas. Note: These...
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are only three newcomers this week as many teams that lost to higher-ranked opposition weren’t dropped that far. Those three — Valencia, St. Mary’s of Stockton and McClymonds of Oakland — all face big tests this week so their stays could be short-lived. Those teams moving up the most this week with 10-spot jumps...
Preseason All-South Bay/Long Beach
This is the region of the CIF Southern Section dominated by national powerhouse St. John Bosco, but it also includes the South Bay where Serra of Gardena always has a lot of blue-chip recruits to get written up as well. The Braves almost have all skill positions on offense on this team except one running...
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This group begins with perennial Orange County powerhouse Mission Viejo, which has a lot of playmakers to replace but has a lot of other positives in the second year under head coach Chad Johnson. This post also has the preseason No. 1 team from the CIF Central Coast Section, the schools that won last year’s […]
Where All-State FB Players Headed
USC usually collects the most all-state first team football players on national letter of intent signing day, but this year it’s much more of a mixed bag, especially with the recent transfer of early Trojan signer Bru McCoy of Santa Ana Mater Dei to Texas. Therefore, we didn’t count McCoy for USC. Texas also signed […]
All-State FB 2018: Medium Schools
The 40th annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams will get to the large schools and overall choice over the Super Bowl weekend, but first we are focusing on the medium schools. Since we won’t put large-enrollment schools into “small” schools designations and don’t want to change our entire format to conform to […]
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. The choice for juniors was the most difficult and one of the most difficult player of the year football picks ever. It also continues to be a challenge to designate players who are from “medium” or […]
Final State FB Ranks By Divisions
No. 1 teams for the 2018 season according to our traditional five-division state breakdowns are Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D1), Lawndale (D2), Menlo-Atherton of Atherton (D3), McClymonds of Oakland (D4) and Hilmar (D5). Two of these schools are No. 1 for the second straight year while two of them are No. 1 in the...
All-State FB Nominees (CIFSS, Part 1)
Here’s the third group of players who have been placed on our board of nominees toward selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These players are all from the massive CIF Southern Section. Believe it or not, but we’ve reached 40 years since Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis (1936-2004) sat down and […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
After the big win over St. John Bosco, Mater Dei takes over at the top of the state, which is where the Monarchs started this season and ended last season. The rest of the top 11 from last week is unchanged, and we didn’t move up Upland that far after it defeated previous No. 12...
