After one of the best years for ex-California high school football players in the NFL Draft in 2018, this year’s pickings held last week in Nashville were scarce.
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Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 2
After the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state nominees, we’ve now updated that list with this one and are getting set to choose the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. New photos also have been added to this post from the first one. More players added and some other fixes had...
Standing Out Among All-Stars
It doesn’t matter that the D1 bound college players aren’t in summer high school all-star games anymore. It’s still a step up from traditional high school games and that does allow some players to rise up within that group and then start to think about a future playing at a four-year college either in two […]
CIF Bowl Boards 5 (North & South)
With section pairings now out everywhere except for the CCS, we have a lot of changes on both boards. Among them are Central of Fresno up to D1-AA in the north, Rio Mesa of Oxnard up to D3-A in the south and new teams getting listed such as Pittsburg, Salinas, Rio Vista, El Camino of...
NEW CIF Sac-Joaquin Sec Top 20
Once again, since the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section is the one for our home base in Stockton, we’ll put together a weekly Top 20 for that section this season. Watch the FOX40 Final Quarter on Fridays at 11 p.m. for all the highlights and to see our latest SJS Top 5 List.
All-State Football: Small Schools
CIF state championship teams McClymonds, Rancho Christian and St. Patrick/St. Vincent all get a pair of players onto one of our two elite all-state squads, but Sutter of the CIF Northern Section tops all with three. It’s harder to determine which schools are “small” in the age of competitive equity, but it still depends on […]
CIF NorCal Bowl Board No. 6
The fun part of these boards that it’s possible to run them in different combinations to see how they shape up. This week, we went back to using Bellarmine of San Jose as one of the projected three CCS Open Division champions. Next week, maybe we’ll put Sanger in the south and Bakersfield Christian in...
CIF NorCal Bowl Board No. 3
New teams on the NorCal board this week are Pleasant Valley of Chico, Amador of Sutter Creek, Ripon and Fort Bragg. We will run these simulations each week through the various section playoffs. And look for video presentations soon when the section playoffs get even more in focus. To see our third CIF SoCal Bowl...
NEW State FB Rankings (Divisions)
Vacaville Wood is better than good and is one of six new teams to break into a divisional state ranking. The others are Helix (D1), Palmdale (D3), Sonora (D4), Valley Christian of Dublin (D5) and Brentwood of Los Angeles (D5). Still No. 1 are De La Salle of Concord (D1), Clayton Valley of Concord (D2),...
Top 5 NorCal Football Venues
Here are five places over the years from watching games in Northern California that would be the best – at least from our point of view. It’s a list that does change with some places getting remodled – who will ever forget the old Napa Memorial Stadium? – and other newer stadiums forging new traditions.
