St. John Bosco moves back to No. 2, Orange Lutheran now has its highest ranking since 2006, Centennial jumps into the top four and Pittsburg gets a three-spot bump into the top 10 prior to its big matchup with De La Salle. We also have Oaks Christian and St. Francis (Mountain View) coming back into...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mission Viejo does indeed move to No. 2 in place of St. John Bosco after its big loss to No. 1 Mater Dei, although that isn’t going to match computer rankings that will be used for the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De La Salle also joins top five for the first time this season,...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
There is just a flip-flop of the No. 4 and No. 5 teams this week between JSerra and Orange Lutheran, but the Trinity League still has five of the top six spots. And we asked St. John Bosco’s Jason Negro last Saturday how good he thought the league looks this season. The biggest mover of...
What We Saw: Pitt vs Riordan
Two teams chasing a higher level and clearly knowing which teams they’re going to have to likely beat to win a CIF section title met on Friday in Pittsburg. Both the host Pirates and visiting Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco displayed plenty of firepower but need a lot of improvement to meet their goals. A […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
After Santa Margarita’s big win over Corona Centennial, the Trinity League keeps reaching up for new levels of dominance and now has the No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 teams in the state. Orange County also now has No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6. Top-ranked...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 38th consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. We have first team, second team, and third team just missed. Note: There are no writeups for each player (like there will be for the official, end of season all-state first team) but all have writeups within this year’s various […]
Preseason NCS East Bay FB Team
Continuing to bounce around the state, our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This team also includes players from the very small CIF Oakland Section mixed in. Pittsburg and De La Salle both have the...
25 Schools With Winning In Their DNA
We are now at that point of the summer in which we are updating the all-time state football records that have been maintained exclusively by Cal-Hi Sports since the first list was compiled in the 1970s. We begin with team categories and one of them is the list of schools with the best all-time win-loss […]
All-State Football 2023: Juniors
It’s time for the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams to check in with a salute to the outstanding juniors from the Class of 2025. A strong QB class shows one on first team as usual with four on first team multi-purpose, although one multi-purpose player who played receiver-defensive back just had to get...
Section Finals Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday championships have now been added, including big wins for Mission Viejo, St. Bonaventure and Rocklin. On Friday, state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana proved once again how hard it is for either itself or No. 1 St. John Bosco of Bellflower to beat the other one twice in the same season with […]
