Foothills Christian blew past a couple Coastal League opponents last week and retained its ranking as No. 1 in San Diego, No. 4 in California, and No. 17 in the United States.

The rankings are from the Union-Tribune, Cal-Hi Sports, and USA Today, respectively.

Foothills Christian, which defeated La Jolla Country Day, 68-42, and The Bishop’s, 69-37 days ago,  has a league game at Cuyamaca College tomorow night with Army-Navy, ranked sixth in San Diego.

Cathedral, Torrey Pines, and St. Augustine are 2, 3, and 4 in San Diego.

San Ysidro hosts a shootout this weekend and may be getting some poll props after writer Don Norcross campaigned for the 74-points-a-game, 17-3 Cougars in a Union-Tribune article this morning.

Coach Terry Tucker, who coached another high scoring Crawford squad that featured future San Diego State Aztecs Tyrone Shelley and Malcom Turner a decade ago, sends his club against Hoover (8-10) in the the Cougars’ City of Angels tournament Saturday night.

The night’s feature game has La Jolla Country Day (18-2) against West Hills (14-3).

Seems odd that San Ysidro is not in the main event against either of those visiting teams.

Records through Monday, Jan. 25.

*Forfeited 57-37 victory Dec. 5 over Horizon.                                                                          Points awarded on basis of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.

Others receiving votes, including record: Mission Bay (14-5, 9), Rancho Berrnardo (14-5, 5), San  Marcos (12-6, 3).

Eleven media representatives vote, including John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune; Steve Brand (San Diego Hall of Champions), Terry Monahan, Jim Lindgren, Union-Tribune correspondents; Bill Dickens, Adam Paul, EastCountySports.com; Rick Willis, KUSI-TV; Rick Smith, partletonsports.com; Bodie DeSilva, sandiegopreps.com; Lisa Lane, San Diego Preps Insider; Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoops.com.

Thirty-three players with San Diego Section or Southern Section connections have played in the 49 Super Bowls.

Denver and Carolina meet in Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara.

Carolina Defensive tackle Nate Chandler from Mira Mesa, who signed with the Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2012, is the only San Diego-connected player on either team but spent the 2015 season on reserve/injured.

Dave Grayson, Sr., of Lincoln was the earliest Super Bowl representative, for Oakland in game II.

Grayson was a starting defensive back and  reserve halfback for the 1955 San Diego High Cavemen, who won the Southern Section championship and and were acclaimed national champions.

Grayson moved into the Lincoln district and played for the Hornets in 1956.  He was the first of five Lincoln graduates (see table below) to play in the Super Bowl.

Lincoln is tied with Long Beach Poly, Compton, Los Angeles Crenshaw, Los Angeles Dorsey, and L.A. High for the most representation among California schools.

Helix, with 4 Super Bowl players (see table), is tied for fifth  with Los Angeles Hamilton, Berkeley, and Anaheim Servite.

Two head coaches, Mike Martz of Madison, and John Fox of Castle Park, have guided their teams to the big game, Martz for the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI, and Fox for the Panthers in S.B. XXXVIII.

*Winning Team.