Since this will be the next-to-last State Top 50 football rankings and we have a majority of teams listed as season complete, we’ll do this week’s feature in one post instead of two. Next week’s final State Top 50 will be two and with more extensive breakdowns of each team. For this week, the CIF...
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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The very top of the final state rankings for this season will be determined on Saturday when No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 3 De La Salle play for the CIF Open Division state title. We may have to wait another week, though, for No. 5 on down as No. 5 Folsom isn’t close to...
CIF Bowl Boards 4 (North & South)
With all of the disruptions in Northern California & the CIF pushing back the state finals one week, it will be more disjointed this season since the Southern California section playoffs will be complete after this weekend and the SoCal bowl games lineup will be announced on Sunday. The CIF and ourselves like to look...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We go over why we’re moving up Corona Centennial to No. 2 this week instead of dropping previous No. 1 Mater Dei down to No. 2 behind new No. 1 St. John Bosco. This also is a good week to give JSerra a bump to No. 6 before the Lions take a crack at the...
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Redondo wins its own tourney, but Mater Dei gets an avenging win over Marymount (sort of) and returns to the No. 1 ranking. Cathedral Catholic also wins SoCal Invitational and moves up to No. 4. In other moves, Vista Murrieta gets a jump into the top 10 for making tourney final and Santa Margarita of […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
This week’s rankings are altered with further consideration for teams being at full strength in some games and without key players in others, but we’ve never assumed certain teams are going to win games at full strength and we know that section and state playoffs will eventually answer all questions. Newcomers this week are Sierra […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
California teams finish second and third at the monstrous Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, but both lost to the same opponent as Assumption of Louisville, Ky., won the title after beating Mater Dei in the semifinals and then Redondo in the finals. Mater Dei, which has a win over Redondo, therefore is still No. […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Cajon of San Bernardino joins the top 10 after rolling past Murrieta Valley in matchup of 10,000-yard quarterbacks. Cathedral Catholic’s big win over Serra of Gardena also causes a lot of changes, including the Dons’ own rise up to No. 20 plus Torrey Pines going up to No. 15 and La Costa Canyon to No....
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are five newcomers in this group, led by new No. 41 Alemany of Mission Hills under new head coach Casey Clausen. There are also solid jumps for No. 30 La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad (up 16 positions) and No. 31 Central Catholic of Modesto (up eight). For teams ranked No. 1 to No. 25...
Baseball/Softball Coach Highlights
All of our exclusive state coaching record lists in football, boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball have now been updated through the 2017-18 school year now that we have completed the updates for baseball and softball. Here is a recap of the major milestones from some of the greatest baseball and softball coaches in […]