Sorry, but last week’s medium/small school rankings really have to be the last ones until the final rankings when the season is over. Instead, now that every CIF section in the state has playoff pairings available, we need to get out our first run through of projections about which champions at the end of the […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group begins with Clovis East of Clovis and includes several others getting strong bumps that are helping them close in on the top 25. That group includes Los Alamitos, Frontier of Bakersfield and Newbury Park. The highest ranked newcomer this week is now No. 39 Chaparral of Temecula. Other newcomers are Damien of La...
State’s All-Time NBA All-Star Alums
California’s 50th player to appear in an NBA All-Star Game was Klay Thompson in 2015. In honor of that total, we decided to start a new NBA All-Star Alumni list for our exclusive state record book. It has now been updated through the 2024 All-Star Game....
Enhanced Regional FB Matchups
We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with which section title each team won plus win-loss record plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. State title games will be played this year at Saddleback, El Camino & Pasadena junior...
CIF Regional Bowl Projections
Here’s our first run-through for all of the most likely scenarios for the CIF NorCal and SoCal regional bowl games, which will lead up to the CIF state football championships on Dec. 8-9 at three junior colleges in Southern California. We’ll do another one next week prior to the CIF section championships and will offer […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Although we had one Southern California award winner come close, we didn’t have any totals this week that will eventually go into the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the purposes of this feature. We did fulfill the other intention of this feature and that is to uncover talent that sometimes only […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
With many teams on byes and others playing opponents that didn’t have much of a chance, there isn’t much movement this week among those that have been in these rankings. For medium, Pacifica of Oxnard remains No. 1 with the only newcomer being El Cerrito. For small, No. 1 Escalon and No. 3 Hughson are...
RBs Added To State FB Records
We’re continuing to get all of our exclusive state football record files updated before the start of the 2023 season. For this post, the focus is on running backs. We begin with a lesson why every coach, parent or media member cannot simply look at a MaxPreps state season list without clicking on each name […]
All-State FB 2022: Medium Schools
We’re now more than halfway done with all of our annual all-state football honors and are pleased to provide recognition for this group of players representing schools that were considered medium schools for the 2022 season. CIF D2-A state champion Granite Hills of El Cajon, CIF 3-AA state champ Grant of Sacramento and CIF D2-AA […]