The five biggest games involving SoCal programs this week

These are the five games involving a SoCal program this week with the most Division 1 talent on the field, and the players to watch in each one. We ranked every matchup by how many players on the two current rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, FBS or FCS, with total offers as the tiebreak. Across the five games, 152 players hold a Division 1 offer and 1452 Division 1 offers sit between them. Every figure here comes from our canonical database.

1. St. John Bosco at Pittsburg

Played in Pittsburg, CA. 37 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 394 Division 1 offers between them.

Pittsburg players to watch:

  • Kenneth Ward, ATH, class of 2028, 17 offers.
  • Isaiah Harrison, RB, class of 2028, 6 offers.

St. John Bosco players to watch:

2. Valor Christian at Mater Dei

Played in Santa Ana, CA. 35 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 368 Division 1 offers between them.

Mater Dei players to watch:

  • Lex Mailangi, OL, class of 2027, 32 offers.
  • Danny Lang, OL, class of 2027, 29 offers.

Valor Christian players to watch:

  • Reis Russell, OL, class of 2027, 35 offers.
  • Jackson Coleman, WR, class of 2027, 27 offers.

3. Mission Viejo at Folsom

Played in Folsom, CA. 31 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 239 Division 1 offers between them.

Folsom players to watch:

  • Rob Larson, WR, class of 2027, 20 offers.
  • Brody Rudnicki, QB, class of 2027, 19 offers.

Mission Viejo players to watch:

  • Jordan Hicks, CB, class of 2028, 39 offers.
  • Amaziah Siale, OL, class of 2027, 20 offers.

4. Basha at Orange Lutheran

Played in Orange, CA. 26 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 279 Division 1 offers between them.

Orange Lutheran players to watch:

Basha players to watch:

  • Jake Hildebrand, OL, class of 2027, 41 offers.
  • Noah Roberts, RB, class of 2027, 39 offers.

5. Centennial at Servite

Played in Anaheim, CA. 23 players across the two rosters hold at least one verified Division 1 offer, 172 Division 1 offers between them. The Centennial here is Centennial of Peoria, Arizona, not Corona Centennial.

Servite players to watch:

  • Isaiah Leilua, LB, class of 2027, 20 offers.
  • Drew Fielder, OL, class of 2027, 17 offers.

Centennial players to watch:

  • Torrin Hill, TE, class of 2028, 18 offers.
  • Benjamin Lowther, T, class of 2027, 14 offers.

How we picked these

Three of the five games bring an out of state opponent into Southern California: Valor Christian travels from Colorado to Mater Dei, and Basha and Centennial both come from Arizona, to Orange Lutheran and Servite. The other two send a SoCal program north to a NorCal host, St. John Bosco to Pittsburg and Mission Viejo to Folsom. We scanned 91 games involving a SoCal program to build the board, and added a few matchups from the programs own published schedules where no schedule row was on file. Two SoCal programs that often make a board like this, Sierra Canyon and Corona Centennial, are not on it this week because neither had a game we could confirm.

The ranking counts only Division 1 offers, FBS or FCS. Our database also tracks offers from schools outside that group, so a program total here can sit below a player's all offers count elsewhere on the site, and each player's figure above is their total verified offers on file. Offer counts and roster attribution were pulled on 2026-09-05 from our own offer feed. A player with an unresolved identity review on file is left out of both the count and the watch lists rather than printed against an unconfirmed roster. Kickoff times are left off on purpose: no source we read published a time we could corroborate, so each game line prints the home city and state rather than an unverified time or an invented stadium. Home sites come from each school's published schedule.

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