Video: Toughest high school football playoff bracketsThere are 10 new teams in the California Championship Game Matchups, and the most significant change comes in the Southern California Open Division.
Centennial (Corona, Calif.), which dominated a very good Chaminade (West Hills) team 70-29 in the first round of the Southern Section Pac-5 playoffs, replaces St. John Bosco (Bellflower), which won its playoff opener against Corona, 72-7.
Another change includes Valley Christian (San Jose) moving to Central Coast Section Division 2 after being listed as a Division 3 team for most of the season.
Other new teams include Twentynine Palms from the Southern Section Northwest, La Serna from the Southern Section Southeast, Folsom in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division 1, Los Banos in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division 4, West Valley (Cottonwood) in the Northern Section Division 3, Chavez (Delano) in the Central Section Division 4, Bradshaw Christian (Sacramento) in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division 6 and East Nicolaus in the Northern Section Division 5.
Following are the unofficial regional matchups for the 13 CIF Football Championship Games. Teams are listed by their section enrollment division along with their record and their rating based on the MaxPreps Computer Rankings presented by the Army National Guard.
For a breakdown of how the new system works,
click here to see the intro article. New teams are noted with an *.
Folsom is back in the lead in the Division 1AA race.
Photo by David Kinsella
North
NCS D1 –
De La Salle (Concord), 9-1, 70.9
SouthSS Pac-5 –
Centennial (Corona), 11-0, 79.1*
1-AA Division
North
SJS D1 –
Folsom, 11-0, 59.6*
CCS D1 –
Bellarmine College Prep (San Jose), 9-1, 58.2
South
SS West Valley –
Mission Viejo, 11-0, 64.3
SDS Open –
Helix (La Mesa), 8-1, 59.0
1-A Division
North
SJS D2 –
Grant (Sacramento), 10-1, 51.0
CCS D2 –
Saint Francis (Mountain View), 9-1, 52.4
South
SS Northern –
Camarillo, 11-0, 55.5
SS Southwest –
La Habra, 10-1, 54.8
2-AA Division
North
CCS D2 runner up –
Valley Christian (San Jose), 7-3, 48.9
NCS D2 –
Clayton Valley Charter (Concord), 10-1, 48.1
South
SS Inland –
Redlands East Valley, 9-2, 48.2
CS D2 –
Ridgeview (Bakersfield), 10-0, 45.3
2-A Division
North
SJS D3 –
Central Catholic (Modesto), 11-0, 45.9
CCS D3 –
Archbishop Riordan (San Francisco), 7-3, 46.4
South
LAS D1 –
Narbonne (Harbor City), 9-2, 44.7
SS Western –
Calabasas, 10-1, 43.5
3-AA Division
North
CS D1 –
Clovis, 9-1, 45.4
NS D2 –
Pleasant Valley (Chico), 10-0, 41.7
South
SDS D2 –
Rancho Bernardo (San Diego), 8-2, 40.0
SS Central –
Charter Oak (Covina), 10-1, 43.3
Open Division (under 1,250)
North
NCS D4 –
Marin Catholic (Kentfield), 9-1, 33.4
OS –
McClymonds (Oakland), 10-0, 25.4
South
SS Mid-Valley –
Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth), 11-0, 32.8
SS Northwest –
Twentynine Palms, 11-0, 25.2*
3-A Division
North
CCS D1 runner-up –
Milpitas, 8-2, 36.4
NCS D3 –
Campolindo (Moraga), 10-1, 32.0
South
SS Southeast –
La Serna (Whittier), 9-2, 35.6*
SS Eastern –
Palm Springs, 11-0, 39.9*
4-AA Division
North
SJS D5 -
Sonora, 10-1, 21.8
CS D3 –
Hanford, 9-1, 27.2
South
SDS D3 –
Bonita Vista (Chula Vista), 8-2, 35.2
SDS D1 –
Oceanside, 6-4, 33.1
4-A Division
North
SJS D4 –
Los Banos, 7-4, 14.2*
NS D3 –
West Valley (Cottonwood), 9-2, 21.4*
South
LAS D2 –
Los Angeles, 10-0-1, 23.7
SS Southern –
Canyon (Anaheim), 6-5, 26.6
5-AA Division
North
NCS D5 –
Berean Christian (Walnut Creek), 9-1, 18.0
CS D5 –
Immanuel (Reedley), 7-2, 14.4
South
CS D4 –
Chavez (Delano), 9-1, 22.3*
SDS D4 –
Mater Dei Catholic (Chula Vista), 9-1, 22.6
5-A Division
North
SJS D6 –
Bradshaw Christian (Sacramento), 10-1, 13.2*
NS D5 –
Fall River (McArthur), 10-0, 4.8
South
SS East Valley –
Saddleback Valley Christian (San Juan Capistrano), 11-0, 17.4
LAS D3 –
Belmont (Los Angeles), 11-0, 3.8
6-AA Division
NorthNS D4 –
East Nicolaus (Nicolaus), 9-2, 4.6*
North Play-in Game
SFS –
Mission (San Francisco), 7-3, -11.9
SJS D7 -
Stone Ridge Christian (Merced), 9-1, -5.4
South
SDS D5 –
La Jolla Country Day, 8-3, -1.3
CS D6 –
Kennedy (Delano), 7-3, -0.9
Key: NCS = North Coast Section, NS = Northern Section, SJS = Sac-Joaquin Section, LAS = Los Angeles City Section, CS = Central Section, CCS = Central Coast Section, SDS = San Diego Section, OS = Oakland Section, SF = San Francisco Section, SS = Southern Section.
Notes: Teams in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I-VI are selected based on the Divisional and League alignment.
For the Central Coast Section team rankings, teams in the Central Coast Section A Leagues are divided by MaxPreps into three equal groups for the three Open Division section championship games. This is not necessarily how the CCS will select teams for their Open Division playoff format. The runner-up teams are considered to be the No. 2 ranked team in each Open Division group.
The top eight ranked teams in the San Diego Section are considered for the Open Division and the No. 9 ranked team is considered the top team in Division I for the purposes of these rankings.
