Three of the top four in California — and almost every ranked-team from the state — slid backwards this week as close contests brought the pack back together. St. John Bosco (Bellflower, CA) dropped from No. 9 to No. 15 as it avoided an upset bid by JSerra (San Juan Capistrano, CA). Folsom (CA) drifted back to No. 16 from ... Read More »
Through the first five weeks of football there have been plenty of blowouts, let downs, and great games. The result has been a remarkable rotation as the HSFB100 has shuffled through three teams for the No. 1 ranking — a position currently held by Don Bosco (Ramsey, NJ). Fans of the Ironmen are quite accustomed to being at or nor ... Read More »
Two perceived realities were dispensed of quickly by Northern California teams during National Week One of the high school football season. No. 8-ranked De La Salle (Concord, CA) long painted as a slow starter came out firing on all cylinders as it blew out a quality Jesuit (Carmichael, CA) team, 63-0. No. 21-ranked Folsom (CA) quieted critics of their results-due-to-weak-scheduling ... Read More »
Jason Negro was simply the victim of bad timing. The head coach of St. John Bosco (Bellflower, CA) led one of the best teams of the last decade to a No. 3 finish in the HSFB100 last season and did not get to return a National Championship to California for the first time since the great De La Salle (Concord, ... Read More »
As spring football opens across the country — for those states that allow it — the look towards the coming season continues. Earlier in April, NationalHSFootball.com broke down an Alphabetical, Way Too Early Top 25 and the push to August continues with 10 pro-style quarterback prospects that will have an impact on where their program ranks in the HSFB100 this ... Read More »
The high school football season is four months away and while that still leaves spring ball, 7-on-7 season, and fall camps to do evaluations there is no reason not to look to the future. With the acknowledgment that this is entirely too early to do a rankings it is never too soon to identify teams that have the potential to ... Read More »
For his Folsom (Cali.) High team to clear its final hurdle in NorCal co-coach Kyle Richardson knows it has to keep getting tougher. The Bulldogs were eliminated in the CIF Open Division Regional Bowl by Concord (Cali.) De La Salle to end the 2013 season, 45-17. It was a similar tale in 2012 when the final was 49-15. Richardson said ... Read More »
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