Here's the top 15 teams from the north and top 20 from the south with no divisions, according to system that has been utilized for 30 years. Playing higher-ranked foes puts Serra of San Mateo back into the NorCal list while it also helps Fountain Valley displacing Bullard of Fresno for SoCal.
By Mark Tennis, Executive Editor
(After games of Saturday, Oct. 31)
(Previous ranking in parentheses)
Note: For the second straight year, we are forced to cut off the North and the South with the CIF Central Section schools in the South. This matches the CIF Open Division bowl game format which pits the top teams from each region against each other regardless of school enrollment. We continue to maintain that due to population factors that the Central Section should be in the north and have always split teams in our rankings that way. We will continue to include Central Section in the north whenever possible.
Northern California Overall Top 15
(CIF North Open Division)
1. (1) Grant (Sacramento) 8-0
2. (2) De La Salle (Concord) 6-2
3. (3) St. Mary's (Stockton) 8-0
4. (5) Amador Valley (Pleasanton) 7-1
5. (7) Rocklin 8-0
6. (8) Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) 7-0-1
7. (9) Bellarmine Prep (San Jose) 6-1-1
8. (11) Berkeley 9-0
9. (12) Palma (Salinas) 6-1-1
10. (6) St. Francis (Mountain View) 6-2
11. (4) Del Oro (Loomis) 7-1
12. (10) Granite Bay 6-2
13. (14) Oakdale 8-0
14. (15) Nevada Union (Grass Valley) 7-1
15. (NR) Serra (San Mateo) 5-3
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