These are the traditional five-division format state rankings that we used to do every week for many years before the CIF state football championships began in 2006. The divisions are based on a combination of league strength, enrollment and competitive equity. In this format, you just won’t see large-enrollment schools in Division 4 or Division...
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All-State FB Nominees (Part 1)
We’re going to begin selection of the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams a little earlier than before and hope to have all nominations lists posted by next week. This first group of players who have been placed on our board of nominees are from the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF North Coast Section, […]
CIF Regional Football Lineup Set
Here is the lineup of games for this year’s CIF football regional championships as announced on Sunday, Dec. 3. The matchups were approved by a committee of CIF section commissioners through video conference call. If people are curious, we know our Cal-Hi Sports’ bowl boards (north and south) are looked at by CIF football officials, […]
Stat Stars, State Records & More
Starting this weekend just about every football team in the state will be playing league games for the next few weeks. It’s a good time therefore to rank the state’s top 10 best leagues (No. 1 is obvious) and go over some of the state’s longest current league winning streaks. Check this week’s column for...
All-State Football: Small Schools
CIF state championship teams McClymonds, Rancho Christian and St. Patrick/St. Vincent all get a pair of players onto one of our two elite all-state squads, but Sutter of the CIF Northern Section tops all with three. It’s harder to determine which schools are “small” in the age of competitive equity, but it still depends on […]
Just the Picks: CIF Football Finals
As is our tradition, we go through each of the 13 upcoming CIF state football championship games and provide a predicted final score. We think a lot of NorCal teams will be successful on the road and perhaps one of the biggest underdogs is team with six state titles in the last seven years.
Five-Division State FB Rankings
Now that the CIF state bowl games are set, it’s time to start looking at how our traditional five-division state rankings will shape up for this season. We hope all five who end up No. 1 in two weeks will be CIF state champions, but it’s possible in Division IV and Division V that they...
CIF NorCal Bowl Board No. 6
The fun part of these boards that it’s possible to run them in different combinations to see how they shape up. This week, we went back to using Bellarmine of San Jose as one of the projected three CCS Open Division champions. Next week, maybe we’ll put Sanger in the south and Bakersfield Christian in...
CIF NorCal Bowl Board
For the first time this season, we run our simulation of how we’d choose this year’s CIF Northern California regional bowl games based on results so far. Look for video presentations soon when the section playoffs get even more in focus. It’s shaky, but we still have De La Salle (Concord) as the NorCal Open […]
