With the official announcement last week that CIF regional championships will take place in Southern California this June, we take a look at how that will impact our weekly boys basketball State Top 25 and our final rankings down the line. The nature of the season being in the spring with COVID-19 looming also has...
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Football Blasts From The Past
For the next few weeks, we’ll go back in time to approximately the same weekend of the California high school football season from five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. At the end of what would have normally been the end of each of those seasons, we may go back even […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday updates added. It seemed like a lot of the most anticipated games in Southern California since the season began took place on Friday with the headliner of course being No. 1 Mater Dei playing No. 2 St. John Bosco. The Monarchs won, but the Braves know they won in the first game between the […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday score added. The highest ranked team to lose didn’t lose on Friday but in a Thursday night contest in Orange County that saw No. 5 JSerra fall to No. 16 Servite. Then on Friday the biggest winners included No. 13 Cathedral Catholic roaring back in the fourth quarter to beat its arch-rivals from St. […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
An Open Division or national championship for California teams in a few sports? And the CIF letting California teams compete in it? Yes, we say it’s time to consider exactly that. Unless you like one-sided state finals…..Latest state record file update is for single-game receiving and we already have four this season who’ve gotten five...
FB Preview: Eight Burning Questions
We’ll have more of our preseason all-section, all-area and all-county teams to come (Orange County already done) plus preseason Top 50 team rankings, preseason all-state and more, but here’s a general overview of the upcoming 2019 California high school football season. We also have done an early preseason top 10 that has been input into […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
We now have two of four big nights completed in which section titles have been decided with the biggest of course being at Cerritos College on Friday where No. 1 St. John Bosco is beaten by No. 2 Mater Dei 17-13 in CIF Southern Section Division I championship. No. 9 Central of Fresno also wraps […]
Random Remarks: No. 1 vs. No. 2
This week’s matchup in Santa Ana between Mater Dei and St. John Bosco brings up a lot of history since the first one in U.S. prep football history involving No. 1 vs. No. 2 ranked teams also was between two California teams.
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
All of the hoopla surrounding No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco playing each other can begin after both teams won on Friday with the Braves coming on strong in the second half after they were tied 21-21 in the second quarter with No. 9 Orange Lutheran. It’s also going to be […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Mater Dei and De La Salle will head into this year’s CIF Open Division final on Dec. 16 at No. 1 and No. 3 in the state. This week’s biggest movers include Oaks Christian, up from No. 11 to No. 8, Paraclete, up from No. 19 to No. 12, and Helix, up from No. 20...
