It’s been since 2012 when the CIF has had Northern California and Southern California regional football finals. It’s not yet been 10 years, but there’s been some high-octane shootouts, super-close finishes and amazing comebacks. With this year’s games slated for Friday & Saturday, here’s a look at our top 10 games. FOR GOLD CLUB ARCHIVES […]
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State Stat Stars of the Week
Leading performers from games last week included both J.P. Andrade from Bonita of La Verne and Myles Herrera of Redlands East Valley for going past 400 yards passing and we also have details of Joseph Todd from Santee of Los Angeles scoring seven TDs. The one we like the best, though, is Trejan Apodacea of...
Final Look: Class of 2017 Football
Going by consensus of Scout, Rivals, ESPN and 24/7, it’s a tie between Antioch’s Najee Harris and Redlands East Valley’s Jaelen Phillips as to which would be the state’s top college prospect as freshmen heading into the 2017 season. We’ll break the tie since Najee was Mr. Football State Player of the Year as a...
More State Football Players of the Year
Check inside this post for the honorees who have been chosen among juniors, sophomores, medium schools, small schools and for those who play defense. We tried, but couldn’t get any from Northern California for this season.
Mr. Football State POY Finalists
There are six players who will be taken under serious consideration to be the 2016 Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Football State Player of the Year, including last year’s winner Najee Harris of Antioch. All six also will be entered into a head-to-head bracket-style fan vote on our Twitter page. Winner to be announced in approximately two […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Big-time recruit Jaelan Phillips does something to get this week’s SoCal Defensive POW honor and get his name into the state record book. Our NorCal Offensive POW, meanwhile, throws for nearly 500 yards in 74-32 win. Other chosen this week are from Atherton, Petaluma, Villa Park and Santa Maria.
FB: California among top WR states
Wide receiver is a very curious position when you look at it from the perspective of three particularly dominant states, especially with regards to their ability to generate the sort of NFL-caliber talent that influences betting lines. Of the 200 wide receivers in the NFL rosters last year, 32 played football at high schools in […]
State Football Record Updates
For this installment, we look at the four times since 1991 (a 25-year span) that De La Salle of Concord has lost in a football game to another California team in the regular season. The school’s current in-state regular-season streak also is quite long. Plus, we’ll update where Antioch’s Najee Harris stands on the all-time...
Preseason All-Southern Sec Teams
With so many schools and so many top-ranked players, the massive CIF Southern Section gets a first team and a second team with player writeups and than a third team of those who just missed. If you want to say we saved the best for last, go ahead. Mater Dei leads the way with four […]
Class of ’17 FB Player Rankings (Summer)
Najee Harris (Antioch), Darnay Holmes (Calabasas) & Wyatt Davis (St. John Bosco) seem to be a solid top three as the state’s top college football prospects from the Class of 2017 get ready for elite events, such as The Opening in Beaverton, Oregon. Since the end of the last football season, however, there have been...
