Helix has vanished!
From Cal-Hi Sports.
The Highlanders  are nowhere to be found in this week’s top 20 ratings.
Coach Troy Starr’s Scots are 1-1 and coming off a 56-7 blowout of Eastlake.  They aren’t even given “On the Bubble” status, that “something’s missing here” honor being accorded locally only to Cathedral and St. Augustine.
“A typo,” said Cal-Hi’s Mark Tennis, who said the Highlanders really are a bubble team this week.
Helix and Mission Hills also are on the bubble in Division I, which lists 15 teams.
Helix, No. 1 in San Diego and No. 12 in Cal-Hi Sports in preseason, will need to beat Cathedral if it entertains any hope of climbing back in to the state’s top 20.
That game, featuring the Union-Tribune poll No. 2 Scots and No. 9 Dons, is the marquee event on this week’s schedule, just ahead of No. 4 Rancho Bernardo’s playing host to La Costa Canyon (10).
San Diego’s only representative in the State Top 20 is San Diego No. 1 Mission Hills. Â The Grizzlies are 16th, same as last week, after a 48-7 rout at mediocre Long Beach Millikan.
Week 4 poll, after three weeks of games:
| # | Team (1st place votes) | Points | W-L | Previous |
| 1. | Â Mission Hills (23) | 239 | 3-0 | 1 |
| 2. | Helix (3) | 204 | 2-1 | 3 |
| 3. | St. Augustine | 196 | 2-1 | 2 |
| 4. | Rancho Bernardo | 136 | 3-0 | 4 |
| 5. | Oceanside | 125 | 2-1 | 6 |
| 6. | Madison | 116 | 2-1 | 5 |
| 7. | El Camino | 89 | 3-0 | 10 |
| 8. | Cathedral | 84 | 1-2 | 9 |
| 9. | Christian | 33 | 2-1 | 7 |
| 10. | La Costa Canyon | 24 | 2-1 | NR |
NR–Not rated.
Others receiving votes (record & points in parenthesis):San Marcos (2-1, 18) Bonita Vista (2-1, 25), Eastlake (1-2, 10), Mater Dei (3-0, 9),Torrey Pines (1-1, 34), Point Loma (2-1, 7), Hoover (2-0, 13), Westview (3-0), The Bishop’s (3-0), Grossmont (3-0), 3 points each; Mission Bay (3-0, 2),Poway (2-1, 1).
Media and CIF representatives vote each week: John Maffei (U-T San Diego), Steve Brand, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Jim Lindgren, Tom Saxe, Rick Hoff (U-T San Diego correspondents), Bill Dickens, Chris Davis (East County Sports.com), Steve (Biff) Dolan, Rick (Red) Hill (Mountain Country 107.9 FM), John (Coach) Kentera, Ted Mendenhall, Bob Petinak (The Mighty 1090), Rick Willis, Brandon Stone (KUSI-TV), Rick Smith (partletonsports.com), Jerry Schniepp, John Labeta (CIF San Diego Section), Bodie DeSilva (sandiegopreps.com), Drew Smith (sdcoastalsports.com), Lisa Lane (San Diego Preps Insider), Raymond Brown (sdfootball.net), Montell Allen (MBASportsrecruiting.com).
QUICK KICKS
Coach Tristan McCoy has reversed the downward spiral at Ranch Bernardo…5-6, 1-10, and 1-9 in his first three seasons, McCoy led the Broncos to a 10-3 record in 2014 and they are  3-0 this season…Rancho Bernardo is 14th in Cal-Hi Sports‘ D-II, while St. Augustine is fifth and Cathedral seventh…Christian is on the bubble in D-III.
