West Valley of Cottonwood takes over at top of the small school category, but must win in super tough Northern Section D3 playoffs to stay there. Previous No. 1 Half Moon Bay only dropped a few positions and could still finish No. 1 depending on how results play out the rest of the season. Newcomers...
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NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
There were lots of section playoff byes and other teams that didn’t play last week, but there was one result from the CIF Southern Section first round — Palos Verdes of PV Estates falling to Loyola in D4 — that caused some changes to this week’s medium schools rankings. For small schools, we have come...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We get to remind guests to our site that one of the purposes of this feature is to uncover players who don’t always get big-time coverage and also to help us track potential entries for the Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book, and this week we have two players that will grace the record rook and […]
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
Team that everybody in the state really is rooting for, Paradise, makes a big move this week even though the 7-0 Bobcats didn’t play. Losing teams and results from earlier in the season have just worked out for them. Ayala of Chino Hills and Rio Hondo Prep of Arcadia are two other newcomers in medium...
Inside The All-State Football Team
After splitting the watch list for some of the most promising freshmen in the state into a separate post last week, this final installment of our annual all-state football series of posts includes our pick for most inspirational player of the year. We also have a look at year two of competitive equity seeding and...
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the choices from among those schools considered large-size and medium for the 2018 season. Our medium schools honoree started out at a small school, but has now won two CIF state titles in the last three seasons. Since this year’s overall State Coach of the Year is from a school we classify as […]
All-State Football Nominees (Part 1)
Believe it or not, but we’ve reached 40 years since Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis (1936-2004) sat down and jotted down the first postseason all-state football team for California. We’ve been doing them ever since and it’s gotten bigger and better we hope each time. Just last year, we added an all-state patch ordering system […]
CIF Bowl Update: Only one change
With many teams on first-round playoff byes and those that did play winning quite easily, there was only one move made on this week’s CIF Bowl Boards. Instead of doing a new feature post, this week we’ll just go over that one change in a blog post and direct people to look at last week’s […]
CIF Bowl Boards 2 (North & South)
New teams being placed for various reasons this week are Central Catholic of Modesto, Palma of Salinas, Rio Linda, Paradise, Colfax, Denair, Christian of El Cajon and Eagle Rock. We also have several teams in higher divisions than before, including Tulare and Highland of Palmdale. Keep in mind that any team playing in a CIF...
