Orange County football has the usual high number of tight league races happening this season. League rivalries are about as good as they’ve ever been.
Enjoy them now, because most of these league rivalries are very unlikely to be around next season.
They could continue as nonleague games, but it’s more fun when a playoff berth or a league championship is at stake.
Orange County high schools agreed this past spring to reassemble its football leagues and conferences after this season. With the exception of the Trinity League teams, all of the Orange County 11-player football teams will placed into one basket. CalPreps’ ratings will be used to place teams into leagues. This is a football-only plan. League and conference memberships will be different for other sports.
If the 2023 football season was over, what would the leagues look like in 2024?
Let’s do this … but first a couple of items to know …
Again, the Trinity League is excluded. The four football teams with the top ratings by CalPreps will be in one league, then there will be 10 six-team leagues, and the bottom five teams in one league.
The league names have not been finalized, so the working titles are Orange County Football Conference A (OCFC A) and Orange County Football Conference B (OCFC B),etc. For this exercise, we’re going with “leagues.”
The previous two years of ratings will be used to place teams into leagues, weighted at 65 percent for the 2023 season and 35 percent weighted for the 2022 season.
Going into this week’s games, with rounded-off ratings totals, here are what the leagues would look like in 2024 (league members listed in alphabetical order):
League A: Edison, Los Alamitos, Mission Viejo, San Clemente.
League B: Corona del Mar, Newport Harbor, San Juan Hills, Tesoro, Villa Park, Yorba Linda.
League C: Capistrano Valley, Cypress, El Modena, Trabuco Hills, Tustin, Western.
League D: El Dorado, Foothill, Huntington Beach, La Habra, Laguna Beach, Laguna…
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