The start of a new season is a good time to introduce a new feature in our high school football coverage – the SoCal Varsity Top 20.
Or you can simply call it, The Best Poll Out There.
Think we’re kidding?
Most of the other polls out there rely on one or two voters. Our SoCal Varsity Top 20 will be using a group of reporters who cover high school football throughout the region. They’ll be seeing all of the top teams in Orange, Los Angeles and Rvierside counties, plus much of San Bernardino County. (Sorry, Ventura County. We’re not there yet.)
We’ll have a new poll out every Monday afternoon. You will be able to find it on this website.
In the meantime, here is our SoCal Varsity Preseason Top 20, with St. John Bosco – last year’s Open Division state champion – in the No. 1 spot.
***************
SOCAL VARSITY TOP 20
School, points, first-place votes
1. St. John Bosco 120 (6)
2. Servite 111
3. Mater Dei 106
4. Long Beach Poly 98
5. Serra of Gardena 96
6. Alemany 90
7. Centennial of Corona 89
8. Westlake 70
9. Chaminade 66
10. Hart 65
11. Mission Viejo 64
12. Vista Murrieta 55
13. Upland 44
14. Orange Lutheran 36
15. Santa Margarita 31
16. Tesoro 24
17. Chaparral 19
18. Oaks Christian 18
19T. JSerra 17
19T. Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks 17
Also receiving votes: Bishop Amat 12, St. Francis 5, Crespi 4, Narbonne 2, Rancho Cucamonga 1
How the poll works: There are six voters, and 20 points are given for a first-place vote and one point for a 20th-place vote.
The voters: Dan Albano and Steve Fryer (Orange County Register), Kyle Glaser and Eric-Paul Johnson (Riverside Press-Enterprise), Jeremy Balan and Devin Ugland (Los Angeles Register).
