Author: Rick Smith

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2025 Football Week 10: 5 Teams Seek 1 of 4 Open Division Playoff Invites

Sixteen games tonight and 28 more Friday will settle the San Diego Section regular season and determine league champions not yet clinched.  Playoff pairings are expected Sunday afternoon. Coming down to the wire Cathedral, Lincoln, Mission Hills, Carlsbad, and La Costa Canyon are alive for  berths in what will be a stacked, four-team Open Division […]

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2025 Football Week 9: It’s Lincoln and Cathedral and Carlsbad and La Costa Canyon

Game(s) of the Week: End of the regular season is two weeks out, but host Lincoln and Cathedral should settle the Western League championship and Carlsbad will attempt to close the Avocado League race against visiting La Costa Canyon this week. The showdowns will bring together four of the San Diego Section’s most successful coaches. […]

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1933 Football, Looking Back: Cavers ‘Couldn’t Lose’; Metropolitan League Makes Bow

The narrative originally was posted Oct. 20, 2016. “Power, deception, speed, coordination, all wrapped in 11 (blue and) white packages from the Border City.” Such was the observation of a Los Angeles Times reporter who witnessed San Diego High’s 27-0 victory over host Santa Barbara along with 5,000 others at Peabody Stadium in the Southern […]

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2025 Football Week 8: These Pointers Are Trying to Equal Their Predecessors

Three weeks ago I wrote it was “not likely” that Point Loma, standing at 4-0 for the first time since 2005, would run the regular season schedule out to a 10-0 record, with La Jolla, San Diego, and Cathedral its next three opponents. Now, in their 100th football season, dating to 1926, here are the […]

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2025 Football Week 7: Another Avocado League Game of the Week

Carlsbad, Avocado League champion five consecutive years from 2019-23 before being unseated by La Costa Canyon in 2024, finds itself in a four-way battle this season and with a showdown against Mission Hills this week. The Grizzlies, under interim coach DJ Zapata while Chris Hauser is sidelined by an administrative order, matched Carlsbad’s 6-0 record […]

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2025 Football Week 6 Maffei Madness: Some Unbeaten Clubs Will Lose

Ranks of the undefeated, 12 strong,  will begin to thin this week. Three head-to-head games are on the schedule and a couple regarded once-beaten squads also will be in important contests. Game of the week is Mission Hills (5-0) against La Costa Canyon (5-0),  the winner positioning itself for the Avocado League stretch drive but […]

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Away game
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Overtime
2x,3x,... Overtime
I-V
A-AAA
O
Division I to V
Division A to AAA
Open Division
1T, 2T, ...
}, {
Final standing tie
Win, loss by 45 pt 'mercy' rule
*
**
***
^

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^^
1st round playoff
Quarterfinal playoff
Semifinal playoff
Championship
SoCal Championship
State Championship
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8*
8**

8+
8-man team
Intraleague playoff
Southern Section playoff
8 vs 11-man team
~
-4
All boys, 2x enrollment
4 vs 3 grades, 9-12 vs 10-12
[
]
CA tiebreaker win,
loss
#, ##
!!
Forfeit win, loss
Game called, shortened or postponed
%
T-, T@
Citrus-Desert Playoff
Tournament

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