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.
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NEW State Top 25 Football
There were a few moves pondered, but none were made in the first 17 positions this week because everybody that high either won easily or didn’t play. The toughest calls were which teams should go in as newcomers and whether Orange Lutheran should stay in after a loss to No. 2 Corona Centennial. The Lancers...
Regular Season State Stat Champs
Our state record lists go back to the 1940s with a regular season state leader for scoring, rushing yards, passing yards and TD passes. And for the second straight year, a CCS player uses the extra week to become a state leader. If you are not a Gold Club member and want to see this...
NEW Bay Area 25 Football Rankings
We give CCS Open Division top seed Sacred Heart Prep a major bump but not above Milpitas, Serra, Valley Christian or Los Gatos in the CCS pecking order. It might even be more bizarre that Aptos isn’t seeded No. 1 in Division III but at least the Mariners are No. 2. Antioch also is on […]
South Bay/Peninsula Players of Week
Presented by LE BOULANGER bakery, this is the latest in a new feature highlighting the most outstanding players from the South Bay/Peninsula region of the CIF Central Coast Section. This week’s three honorees are James Outman from Serra of San Mateo, Kevin Cance from Leland of San Jose and Xzavier Wilkins from Silver Creek of […]
Preseason Duel: Top two in CCS?
This is the third in a series of posts comparing two local rivals who both may be toward the top of the preseason state football rankings. We’ll write up what we think these teams will be like heading into the season, then we hope to see what their fans have to say through comments, reaction.
State’s Final Top 50 For Football 2013
This is an expanded look from our normal Top 25 taken out to No. 50 overall. This post also includes writeups of each team and 10 more teams that almost were included in the Top 50. Congratulations to all teams from the state who were on the field during the 2013 season....
FB: Serra thumps Mitty
Serra star Hamilton Anoa’i has a breakout game What a difference a year makes. Last season in game four, and in a 30-21 road win over Archbishop Mitty of San Jose, Hamilton Anoa’i tore his ACL and missed the rest of the season. This year, on a sunny Saturday afternoon at home in San Mateo, […]
FB: Watch out for Bay Valley League
WCAL and EBAL are always tough, but how about that BVAL The two leagues that have gotten the most buzz around the Bay Area since I started covering football 21 years ago, the wild-and-wacky West Catholic Athletic League and the East Bay Athletic League, have generally garnered the top teams, but the Bay Valley Athletic […]
FB: Bell only rings once vs. Serra
That bell that is brought over to San Jose City College for each Bellarmine of San Jose home football game was being carefully loaded onto a truck roughly 30 minutes after the Bells played Serra of San Mateo in Northern California’s top game of the week.
