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Football: New division figures for state bowl games

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Oceanside moved up from Division II to Division I under new division guidelines established by the California Interscholastic Federation for its state championship bowl games, meaning there will be a clash of potential Division I participants Sept. 25 when the Pirates host Long Beach Poly.

Poly is ranked No. 1 in the Southland by The Times, while Oceanside is ranked No. 1 in the San Diego Section in the San Diego Union-Tribune preseason poll.

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Most of the other changes came among Northern California teams because the CIF changed the enrollment cutoffs in that area for Division I to 1,850 students and Division II to 1,250. A full breakdown of the divisions among Southern California teams can be found here.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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