2023 Week 15B: State Regional Playoffs, At a Glance
San Diego Section teams in bold. Columns 4, 5, and 6 are prep outlets’ ratings of opponents. DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT CAL-PREPS.COM MAX PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS I-AA Granite Hills (12-0) @Mission Viejo (11-3) 65.9/69.7 7/5 6/12 I-A St. Augustine (10-4) Ventura St. Bonaventure (11-3) 46.4/51.4 39/31 43/29 III-AA Del Norte (11-1) Lake Balboa Birmingham (11-2) 32.2/33.0 […]
Read More2023 Week 15: San Diego Section Teams Challenged in State Regional Playoffs
This is the curious time of the season. The San Diego Section rounds of championship games, concluding with Division I, II III, and IV last week, now centers on the Southern California Regional playoffs. And many of us are curious about these strangers suddenly looming on the postseason schedule. How good are San Diego Section […]
Read More2023 Week 14: Eagles Tough as Granite in Open Thriller with Lincoln
This is the year of living dangerously for Granite Hills. The Eagles beat Lincoln, 27-26, for the San Diego Section Open Division championship Saturday night in Snapdragon Stadium in the third of a series of cliffhangers and barnburners in the last four weeks. The east El Cajon club, 93-47 under coach Kellan Cobbs since 2013, […]
Read More2023 Week 13: Lincoln, Granite Hills Survive Semifinals Thrillers
After an essentially quiet first week, quarterfinals and Open Division semifinals brought the San Diego Section playoffs to life, starting with a couple wild Open Division battles. Distance and facing California’s No. 8-ranked team and second seed didn’t deter third seed and California-ranked 14th Granite Hills. The Eagles bused 44 miles and then outlasted state […]
Read More2023 Week 12: Pairings Are More On Than Off in Postseason Openers
The CIF’s power ratings, a football version of diversity, inclusion, and equity, worked in all but four games in the week 12, first round of San Diego Section playoffs. The National Football League long has fostered the “on-any-given-day-any team-can-win” mantra. There aren’t upsets; they’re…well, surprises. There were four “surprises” as the San Diego Section postseason […]
Read More2023 Week 11: Hats Off! League Champions!
The advent of power ratings, leading to alteration of teams’ division and league placements and affecting playoff seeding, changed the landscape. League championships don’t carry that once-cherished cachet. But don’t tell that to the players, coaches, and student bodies. A league title still goes down as a matter of record and still looks great on […]
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