Our Sunday special this week continues the countdown of the 70 greatest high school football teams in state history. As we move toward the top 10, there are some changes in this range of teams. This is mainly because of the elevation of the Folsom High Bulldogs of 2014. Their QB, Jake Browning, in the...
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CIF Regional Bowl Projections
Here’s the second run-through for all of the most likely scenarios for the CIF NorCal and SoCal regional bowl games, which will lead up to the CIF state football championships on Dec. 8-9 at three junior colleges in Southern California. Depending on how everything goes over Friday and Saturday, we may do another one late...
All-Time NorCal Unbeaten FB Teams
Thanks to mountains of information on California high school football that can’t be found anywhere else, here is an honor roll list according to Cal-Hi Sports of every reported unbeaten team from schools currently in the CIF Northern Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, CIF North Coast Section, CIF Central Coast Section plus San Francisco and Oakland....
Top 100 Highest Scoring Football Teams In State History
We’re now going through all team categories in the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state football record book files. For this post, it’s scoring, scoring and more scoring. We’re posting the top 100 teams for most points scored in a season in this free post, but we have more than that in our actual Gold Club list. […]
State Super 65: No. 21 to No. 30
The mighty 1927 state champs from Bakersfield and two teams from 2014, De La Salle and Folsom, are featured in this group. Others include Pico Rivera El Rancho 1966 (a mythical national champ) plus the top team on our board from the CIF Central Section. Note: All of the writeups, grid logs, photos and more...
State Coach of Year: Kris Richardson
With a team thought to be a year from being dominant, Folsom’s Kris Richardson built a squad that finished 16-0 for the second time in four years and won the CIF Division 1-AA state title. He wasn’t by himself, but this time there was no co-coach and there isn’t much doubt who should get the […]
Week 2 State Top 25 Scoreboard
No. 8 Grant of Sacramento had bus headed to Fresno turned around on Friday due to postponement but got to play on Saturday instead and won. Highest ranked teams to lose on Friday to an unranked opponent, meanwhile, were No. 18 Pittsburg and No. 20 Redlands East Valley.
Jake Browning: Mr. Football 2014
The Folsom QB turned in arguably the greatest season by any QB in state history, which frankly made it quite difficult to even consider anyone else. He joins the all-time state list that goes back for more than 100 years.
Final, Expanded State 50 (No. 1-20)
Once again, we double the number of teams broken down and ranked for our final end-of-season football rankings. There are several who made it with losing records and there are a few who didn’t quite make it that we really wish we could have squeezed in there. Note: This post is for Gold Club members...
D-Line Turns It ON For Folsom
In the Bulldogs’ 68-7 win over Oceanside for the CIF Division I state championship, there were some anxious moments early before defensive pressure led to Pirate mistakes, then the vaunted offense took over. Jake Browning ends historic season with 91 TD passes for the season (a national record tie) and 229 TD passes for career […]
