{"id":434671,"date":"2026-08-16T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434671\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:16:13","slug":"bay-area-high-school-football-2026-where-to-find-our-preseason-coverage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434671\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area high school football 2026: Where to find our preseason coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay Area News Group has been rolling out high school football previews all month to get you ready for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Our preseason coverage is a springboard to months of coverage that will include game stories, roundups, rankings, features, breaking news and more.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already, please sign up for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.mercurynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/checkout.mercurynews.com\/\">digital subscription<\/a>\u00a0and spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>Your contributions keep us going.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the links to what we\u2019ve published, with a lot more to come throughout the school year:<\/p>\n<p>LEAGUE PREVIEWS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/10\/high-school-football-2026-preview-oakland-athletic-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland Athletic League:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/11\/high-school-football-2026-preview-bval-west-valley-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BVAL West Valley:\u00a0<\/a>Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/11\/high-school-football-2026-preview-bval-santa-teresa-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BVAL Santa Teresa:<\/a> Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/11\/high-school-football-2026-preview-bval-mt-hamilton-south-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BVAL Mt. Hamilton South:<\/a> Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/11\/high-school-football-2026-preview-bval-mt-hamilton-north-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BVAL Mt. Hamilton North:<\/a> Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/12\/high-school-football-2026-preview-pal-lake-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PAL Lake:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/12\/high-school-football-2026-preview-pal-el-camino-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PAL El Camino:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/12\/high-school-football-2026-preview-pal-ocean-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PAL Ocean:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/13\/high-school-football-2026-preview-tcal-stone-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TCAL Stone:\u00a0<\/a>Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/13\/high-school-football-2026-preview-tcal-rock-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TCAL Rock:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/14\/high-school-football-2026-preview-dal-mountain-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DAL Mountain:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/14\/high-school-football-2026-preview-dal-valley-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DAL Valley:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/14\/high-school-football-2026-preview-dal-foothill-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DAL Foothill:<\/a>\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<\/p>\n<p>COMING SOON<\/p>\n<p>WACC Shoreline:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nWACC Mission:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nWACC Foothill:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nBay Valley:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nEBAL Valley:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nEBAL Mountain:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nPAL De Anza:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nPAL Bay:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<br \/>\nWest Catholic:\u00a0Top players, predicted order of finish<\/p>\n<p>PRESEASON ALL-BAY AREA NEWS GROUP POSITION LISTS<\/p>\n<p>COMING SOON<\/p>\n<p>Preseason all-BANG:\u00a0Kickers\/punters<br \/>\nPreseason all-BANG:\u00a0Defensive backs<br \/>\nPreseason all-BANG:\u00a0Running backs\/athletes<br \/>\nPreseason all-BANG:\u00a0Quarterbacks<\/p>\n<p>FEATURES\/NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bay Area News Group has been rolling out high school football previews all month to get you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[389,184,7,390,392,332,2043,2044,402,181,395,88,90,89,397,198,200,127],"class_list":["post-434671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-central-contra-costa","tag-contra-costa-county","tag-east-bay","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-peninsula","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-mateo-county","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}