It’s another CIF Open Division state title for Mater Dei, but this time the NorCal representative, De La Salle of Concord, put up a fight in the third quarter to make it interesting…at least for a few minutes. Monarchs gain their fifth CIF state title since 2017. Edison of Huntington Beach and Palos Verdes of […]
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CIF State FB Previews & Picks
Northern California teams will be trying to break precedent of playing poorly in games played at Saddleback College. We have two of the five coming down, however, getting a win. In games played at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium, almost all of the NorCal teams once again are coming in […]
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...
What We Saw: De La Salle vs Grant
Big win for the Spartans in their first game Friday at home ended up being a prelude for a bigger one next week against Serra of San Mateo, but for someone who was clued in to both schools in the decade of the 2000s and even back to the 1990s it was a first-time matchup...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-10)
It’s now up to nine straight seasons that either Mater Dei of Santa Ana or St. John Bosco of Bellflower has started out No. 1 in the state and for 2024 that means the Monarchs are in that position. They are the defending CIF Open Division state champions and they also have a lot more […]
Friday CIF State Football Finals
Mission Viejo captures its second CIF state title with a 27-14 win over De La Salle in the D1-AA championship. It also shows the relative strength of the elite teams in the CIF Southern Section over the rest of the state. The SoCal teams also remained unbeaten at Saddleback College earlier in the night with […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Bosco retakes No. 1 ranking and makes the preseason pick of the Braves not look so bad after win vs No. 2 Mater Dei. Who else had them first at the start? Santa Margarita’s win over JSerra also causes a lot of evaluation and changes. This week’s only newcomer to this group is new No....
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No. 1 St. John Bosco proves our point of just going with the winner of the most recent game between the top two teams in the nation as being No. 1 in the state until they play again with a huge national win vs St. Thomas Aquinas of Florida. No. 2 in state Mater Dei...
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (1-25)
It takes us extra time for the final football rankings since all of them are expanded and checked through several times. Here’s the first 25 teams in which the changes are minimal compared to the previous rankings due to various head-to-head results. Liberty of Bakersfield inched upward one spot while CIF San Diego Section Open...
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 St. John Bosco facing No. 3 Serra of San Mateo in the CIF Open Division final on Saturday at Saddleback College. The rest of the top 10 this week has been reshuffled with the D1-AA regional results as De La Salle moved up following its win over Folsom and Lincoln...
