California leads the nation with five high school football alums taken in this year’s first round. The first two both hail from the Ventura/L.A. County region with Kayvon Thibodeaux from Oaks Christian going at No. 5 and then Drake London of Moorpark not far behind at No. 8. We have writeups of all 22 players […]
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Inside State Football Records
An amazing number of current college football quarterbacks, two of them who are among the front-runners for the Heisman Trophy, threw for more than 10,000 yards as high school quarterbacks in California. We go over all them and not just the ones at Alabama, Ole Miss and Georgia. It’s also a good time to remind […]
FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We explain why De La Salle only dropped from No. 3 to No. 4 and why Helix ended up at No. 10 after those two teams lost in the CIF state title games. This part of the final rankings only includes one new team, St. Mary’s of Stockton, which was selected for Cajon of San...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
It’s the week of the CIF Southern Section Division I quarterfinals so naturally there are several teams in the rankings that had to drop a few spots this week to account for those matchups, including Pittsburg, Narbonne and Oakdale. Long Beach Poly and Orange Lutheran are the two teams among that group that were jumped...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
The top three teams all had byes while No. 4 Mission Viejo and No. 5 De La Salle had fairly easy outings. With the two crazy games on Thursday in Southern California won by No. 9 Chaminade and No. 10 Calabasas, the biggest game in the state on Friday was in Granite Bay where No. […]
Griffin on a Mission for Diablos
One of the top players who will be on the field for Friday’s showdown between state No. 5 Mission Viejo and state No. 6 Long Beach Poly will be receiver/corner Olaijah Griffin. The UCLA commit will be tested on both sides of the ball by the talented Jackrabbits but he should be up to the […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
No. 2 Corona Centennial falls to national power IMG Academy (Florida) on Saturday in Honor Bowl finale. On Friday, No. 1 Mater Dei ends 55-game win streak of Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, No. 4 De La Salle rallies from 31-14 deficit in second half to beat Washington D.C. St. John’s and No. 8 Long Beach […]
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
This is the preseason football team that essentially combines the two coverage areas of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and South Bay Daily Breeze within the CIF Southern Section. Schools in westside of L.A. in the CIFSS also are included in this group. Any player from any school other than St. John Bosco, Long Beach Poly...
Preseason FB Ranks Taking Shape
As practices for the 2017 football season get underway in the state, we have a first draft of what the Cal-Hi Sports preseason state rankings may look like with teams that would be in our top 10 as of the beginning of August. We can say for sure the top four won’t change when the […]
FB Preseason: Class of 2018 Updates
This class for the state starts the 2017 season revamped somewhat due to an unusual high number of transfers, but it’s a group dominated by another strong collection of quarterbacks. Some of the ones who may be on the best teams are not ranked as high as others on various recruiting lists and there are...
