The top two squads in the country have a combined 58 players with at least one offer to an FBS school. The Trinity League rivals have each won two national championships since 2017.
Mater Dei is 7-0 with a signature win against then-No. 2
Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.) in September. Senior Washington commit
Dash Beierly has thrown 14 touchdown passes without an interception. The defense has 28 sacks on the season led by senior Oregon commit
Nasir Wyatt, who has 6.5 this season.
St. John Bosco comes in 8-0 with freshman
Koa Malau'ulu starting at quarterback. The 6-foot-2, 180-pounder has thrown for 12 touchdowns with one interception since taking over the starting job. In a 27-17 win over
Servite (Anaheim, Calif.) last week at SoFi Stadium, Malau'ulu didn't commit a turnover while completing 16 of his 24 attempts for 217 yards and three touchdowns.
The St. John Bosco defense has 13 interceptions and sophomore
Isala Wily-Ava leads the unit with five. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound safety already has nine offers including BYU, Texas and Texas A&M.
No. 6 Servite will make the trip to No. 4
Orange Lutheran (Orange) for more Trinity League action on Friday. Servite (6-2, 1-2) has losses to Mater Dei and St. John Bosco in league play and a win against No. 7
JSerra Catholic (San Juan Capistrano). Senior running back
Quaid Carr had 166 rushing yards and two touchdowns against St. John Bosco last week. The San Diego State commit also topped 1,000 rushing yards on the season for a second straight year in the loss.
Orange Lutheran (6-2, 2-1) nearly took down St. John Bosco on Oct. 4 before falling 28-24. In league wins over JSerra Catholic and No. 9
Santa Margarita (Rancho Santa Margarita) the past two weeks, senior Nebraska commit
T.J. Lateef has been efficient, completing 72.2 percent of his passes for 424 yards. The defense had 13 sacks the past two games with
Marcus Fakatou accounting for five of them. Fakatou is a 6-foot-7 freshman with 10 offers including Notre Dame, Oklahoma and USC.
Liberty (Brentwood) will take on No. 19
Pittsburg in North Coast Section play on Friday. The Pirates' lone loss was at the hands of St. John Bosco in a game that was a one-score game late in the third quarter. Senior quarterback
Marley Alcantara has 19 touchdown passes without an interception this season. UCLA commit
Jadyn Hudson headlines a Pittsburg defense that has two consecutive shutouts.
Liberty (5-2) won 42-7 last week against
Deer Valley (Antioch) after senior quarterback
Sage Robertson threw six touchdowns. Junior
Jaxon Bell is a threat out of the backfield and as a pass catcher with 1,241 total yards and 12 touchdowns. Bell holds offers from Nevada and UAB.
No. 8
De La Salle (Concord) will host
Monte Vista (Spring Valley) on Friday in East Bay Mountain Division action. The Spartans are rolling and have won six of their seven games by at least 21 points. Last week against
San Ramon Valley (Danville), seniors
Dominic Kelley and
Derrick Blanche, along with sophomore
Duece Jones-Drew combined for four rushing touchdowns. The De La Salle defense allowed just one rushing yard while sacking the quarterback six times.
Monte Vista (5-2) saw its four-game winning streak come to an end last week in a 50-36 loss to
California (San Ramon). Monte Vista senior running back
Alexander Villanueva has more than 1,000 rushing yards this season.
In the Sierra Foothill League, No. 14
Folsom will travel to
Jesuit (Carmichael) to play on the red turf Friday.
Jesuit (5-3, 2-3) has a stout rushing attack that has scored 20 touchdowns this year with eight different backs. Juniors
Alex Dewar and
Ryan Reeves each have two interceptions in the secondary.
Folsom has won six straight since falling to
Junipero Serra (San Mateo) 22-21 in the second game of the season. Five-star junior quarterback
Ryder Lyons has thrown for five touchdowns in three straight weeks. Since the start of his sophomore season he has 61 passing touchdowns and 29 rushing scores.
Anchored by four-star Texas commit
Josiah Sharma, Utah pledge
Taniela Tupou, senior
Theo Greule and sophomore
Lua DaBerry on the defensive line, the Bulldogs allowed seven total rushing yards on 41 carries over the past two weeks.
