2025 Football Week 13: Two No. 1’s Eliminated in Playoff Quarterfinals
Eight more underdogs overcame seeding challenges last week as the San Diego Section playoffs tightened in the quarterfinals. A second week of 26 games saw two No. 1-ranked squads go down, with additional upsets by 12, 11, 10, and six, and five seeds. Most significant was No. 9 Hoover’s 52-49 win over top ranked Sweetwater […]
Read More2025 Football Week 12: Favorites Are 18-8 in Playoffs’ Openers
Rankings and favoritism didn’t matter to eight underdogs in the 26 San Diego Section first-round playoff games. Two each of 11, 10, and 9 seeds prevailed over sixes, sevens, and eights in the divisional brackets. The most significant reversal saw 12 seed Scripps Ranch put it to No. 5 La Jolla, 42-0. Clairemont, another No. […]
Read More2025 Football Week 11: Grizzlies Win Regular-Season Top 10 Poll
The postseason begins this week and the Open Division is so stacked that season-long No. 1 Lincoln is out and placed in Division I. Mission Hills, Open Division-seeded No. 1 and the leader in John Maffei’s last regular-season poll, meets visiting No. 4 Cathedral and No. 2 La Costa Canyon is host to No. 3 […]
Read More2025 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 […]
Read More2025 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. […]
Read More1933 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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