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California High School Football How Top 25 State Football Teams Fared - Nov. 14, 2025

Southern Section Division 1 upsets set the tone for a wild week for playoffs up and down the state; Eight ranked teams have seasons end with playoff defeats

Mitch Stephens

Santa Margarita stunned its third Top 5 team this season with a 21-9 victory over Sierra Canyon, a team wich had given up 43 points all season
Santa Margarita stunned its third Top 5 team this season with a 21-9 victory over Sierra Canyon, a team wich had given up 43 points all season / SMCHS Football

What a night. What a hit the Top 25 state ranked teams took, right from the start.

Top-ranked Sierra Canyon, all that perfection all season behind a historically good defense, lost a quarterfinal Southern Section Division 1 playoff game as did No. 3 St. John Bosco, a team that had been No. 1 for most of the season.

Down goes Frazier.

That was just for starters. Eight teams from the Top 25 all sustained season-ending defeats.

HOW CALIFORNIA TOP 25 FARED (11-14-2025)
(Records up to date)

No. 1 Sierra Canyon (10-1)

Final: Santa Margarita 21, Sierra Canyon 9

No. 2 Mater Dei (8-2)

Final: Mater Dei 20, Mission Viejo 0

No. 3 St. John Bosco (9-2)

Final: Orange Lutheran 20, St. John Bosco 19

No. 4 De La Salle (11-0)

Final: De La Salle 42, San Ramon Valley 0

No. 5 Santa Margarita (8-3)

Final: Santa Margarita 21, Sierra Canyon 9

No. 6 Corona Centennial (10-1)

Final: Centennial 41, Servite 6

No. 7 Mission Viejo (9-2)

Final: Mater Dei 20, Mission Viejo 0

No. 8 Folsom (10-1)

Final: Folsom 62, Downey 34

No. 9 Servite (6-5)

Final: Centennial 41, Servite 6

No. 10 Los Alamitos (10-2)

Final: Los Alamitos 35, San Juan Hills 10

No. 11 Riordan (10-0)

Next: Saturday vs. Salinas

12. Orange Lutheran (3-8)

Final: Orange Lutheran 20, St. John Bosco 19

13. Leuzinger (10-1)

Final: Leuzinger 19, Chaparral 16

14. Murrieta Valley (9-3)

Final: Murrieta Valley 26, Rancho Cucamonga 6

15. Lincoln (9-2)

Final: Lincoln 51, Poway 41

16. Chaparral (7-5)

Final: Leuzinger 19, Chaparral 16

17. Vista Murrieta (8-4)

Final: San Clemente 32, Vista Murrieta 7

18. Carlsbad (10-1)

Final: Carlsbad 27, La Costa Canyon 23

19. Crean Lutheran (10-1)

Final: Leuzinger 34, Crean Lutheran 17

20. Corona del Mar (9-2)

Final: Murrieta Valley 35, Corona del Mar 14

21. Oxnard Pacifica (12-0)

Final: Pacifica 28, Bishop Amat 7

22. Pittsburg (10-1)

Final: Pittsburg 42, Liberty 18

23. Central East (11-1)

Final: Central East 53, Buchanan 31

24. Manteca (11-0)

Final: Manteca 43, Tracy 8

25. Cathedral Catholic (9-2)

Final: Cathedral Catholic 42, Mission Hills 35

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Mitch Stephens
MITCH STEPHENS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.

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