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Mater Dei State Team of Year 2024

Here is the official updated list of the California high school football state teams of the year that goes back for more than 120 years with Mater Dei of Santa Ana now added for 2024. Since the Monarchs also were No. 1 in the pandemic season when there were no section/state playoffs, it’s now four […]

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State Stat Stars & Record Updates

With football in the home stretch, this is the week in which boys and girls hoops gets added to this feature. We start with Mater Dei’s Gary McKnight moving to No. 2 all-time in the nation for coaching wins in boys hoops plus we have the 800th win for Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell. Carlsbad’s Jake...

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Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)

It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. There are three big questions heading into the 2024-25 season regarding the use of computer rankings by the CIF Southern Section, the placement of St. Joseph of Santa Maria for the regionals and whether […]

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CIF Regional Bowl Game Projections

Sorry, but last week’s medium/small school rankings really have to be the last ones until the final rankings when the season is over. Instead, now that every CIF section in the state has playoff pairings available, we need to get out our first run through of projections about which champions at the end of the […]

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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

Apologies for missing one week of these rankings last week, but we’re back from a trip to London and Paris and we’ll be going at full strength for the rest of the 2024 season. There was some shuffling among the top five teams since the last rankings mostly due to Servite of Anaheim getting a...

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State Super 70: No. 1 to No. 10

We have no new state rankings this week, but here’s the final top 10 teams in our updated version of our look at the greatest football teams in state history. We will have regular State TOP 50 rankings returning next week perhaps just a little later than usual. At the top, it still has to...

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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...

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State HOF Adds 25 More Players

The next 25 group of inductees for the California High School Football Hall of Fame have been announced after the first 100 were done two years ago for an exhibit at the Rose Bowl that was unveiled last year. Here is where the Hall of Fame stands in getting the most deserving players into induction, […]

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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

After No. 1 Mater Dei tops Bishop Gorman of Nevada in a national showdown, how will California No. 4 Orange Lutheran do when it plays at Bishop Gorman on Friday? The first 25 of these rankings also show a rise for Sierra Canyon despite its loss to No. 2 St. John Bosco, why we went...

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Second Half Surge For No. 1 Mater Dei

In the first game of the season on Thursday for state No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana and the first game for new head coach Raul Lara, No. 3 Centennial (Corona) only trailed 22-17 at halftime. Then the vaunted MD defense took over in the second half in a 42-25 win. Not having top […]

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