CIF State Football championship pairings, Southern California sites announced

For the first time, all 15 games will be played at three different Southern California sites

The California state football bowl championship pairings were all figured out Saturday night. 

Sunday, the locations of those pairings were finalized. 

The California Interscholastic Federation sent out this morning the destinations of teams to either Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, El Camino College in Torrance or Pasadena City College. 

All games are Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8-9. 

With one exception, the top five divisions remained at one site — Saddleback. The Division 2-A game between Los Gatos and Central Valley Christian was moved to Pasadena City College. Instead, the 3-AA contest between Acalanes and Birmingham will be played at Saddleback with an 11:30 a.m. start time (30 minutes earlier than the normal noon starting time). 

Check back for more details and reaction. 

CIF title games by site

Here are the brackets/results of each division (note: There was no regional playoff in Open Division. Both teams handpicked as top teams in each region). 


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Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports

MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

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.