We go over why we’re moving up Corona Centennial to No. 2 this week instead of dropping previous No. 1 Mater Dei down to No. 2 behind new No. 1 St. John Bosco. This also is a good week to give JSerra a bump to No. 6 before the Lions take a crack at the...
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
For the last several seasons, with Mater Dei and St. John Bosco, it’s almost like we have two major blockbuster movies with a guaranteed sequel coming out about six weeks after the initial release. Part I is this Friday in Santa Ana and also will be a matchup of No. 1 and No. 2 teams...
What We’ve Learned So Far 2018
Even though there are some teams that have played six games, this is the week we consider as the halfway point of the 2018 football season. Games that we’ve attended have been Folsom at De La Salle, the Honor Bowl at St. Francis of Mountain View (five games), Stockton St. Mary’s at Central Catholic (Modesto), […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Of course, we were going to wait until after No. 1 Mater Dei (Santa Ana) and No. 2 Redondo Union (Redondo Beach) played each other in Orange County on Wednesday night. The Monarchs won in four games to further solidify its status in California. Teams on the rise the most from the preseason are new […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We only dropped Orange Lutheran one spot for losing to No. 4 Corona Centennial in what was a tight game until midway in the fourth quarter. Centennial also may benefit later on in CIFSS D1 playoff seedings due to No. 1 Mater Dei now having a forfeit loss. The one team getting a strong boost...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday games at the Honor Bowl in Mountain View sees impressive wins by No. 16 Serra of Gardena and No. 19 Liberty of Brentwood. On Friday, No. 1 Mater Dei shows national audience on ESPNU why not much has changed despite all of those gone from last season with a 42-0 road romp over national […]
Honor Bowl Hits Bay Area: A Primer
There will be five games on Friday and Saturday this weekend at St. Francis High in Mountain View that will represent the first weekend of this year’s two-weekend Honor Bowl. Next week, there will be three games at Cathedral Catholic in San Diego. So what’s the Honor Bowl all about? Since we went to many […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The challenge this week was not to honor someone who was playing in a Tuesday sectional playoff game so we looked extra-hard to for those who are done or those who weren’t scheduled to play until later this week. Mission accomplished with Red Bluff’s Tanner Tweedt, San Diego Rancho Bernardo’s Nick Seamans, Mountain View St. […]
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2018
It took us a couple of years to adjust our annual divisional all-state teams in basketball to the CIF having an Open Division. Now they’ve changed things again with competitive equity based divisions and team placements. If competitive equity means that the Open Division and Division I is that much stronger than the other divisions, […]
