While Mt. San Antonio College is now the unanimous top pick, most state poll selections by California Community College Football Coaches Association members have shuffled this week.
Mt. SAC (7-0), the lone remaining unbeaten team in the 3C2A state championship derby, took all 23 first place ballots and tallied 575 points, following a 51-7 win over East Los Angeles College. The Mounties visit Orange Coast (1-6) Saturday.
College of San Mateo, which started the season ranked No. 1 before dropping after a 23-20 loss to Modesto in Week 3, jumped up two spots and is back up to No. 3 in the state following a 49-14 win over Foothill.
The Owls drop from No. 16 to No. 19 in the top 25.
CSM (6-1) will face another rival this week in City College of San Francisco. The Rams lost their first five games of the season, but are 2-0 in Bay 6 Conference play after a 38-7 win over Laney. The game in San Francisco Saturday will be a battle for first place.
CSM’s win over Foothill puts them in the driver’s seat to play in the Northern California championship game for the third straight season. The Bulldogs’ rise is in direct correlation to former No. 2 Butte falling 31-30 in overtime to American River College last weekend. Butte dropped to No. 6, while ARC moved up to No. 11 and has a chance to play for the Northern California championship as the Beavers now lead the Nor Cal Conference. ARC will face a 2-0 Sierra squad this weekend.
Butte led American River, 24-10, entering the fourth quarter. But American River scored back-to-back touchdowns, tying it at 24 with 1:56 left in regulation on Elias Brown’s 6-yard run, which completed a 7-play, 72-yard drive, in just over two minutes.
The Beavers scored first in OT, with Brown running in from the 2 for his third touchdown of the game. Butte, on its possession, then tallied its first score since the first half — on Marcus Beamon’s 10-yard run. But the conversion kick failed.
Riverside City College (6-1) moved up one spot to No. 2, with 541 points, after a 69-3 Southern league win over Southwestern College. RCC faces a Saturday challenge at No. 13 Saddleback (5-2).
Ventura College (6-1) holds onto the No. 4 poll position this week and co-leads the Northern Conference at 4-0, along with No. 10 El Camino (5-2). Ventura plays at No. 18 Bakersfield College (4-3) on Saturday and ElCo goes to Antelope Valley. Golden West (6-1) remains in the No. 5 spot and visits No. 15 Long Beach CC 5-2) on Saturday. Both are unbeaten in the Central Conference, along with Mt. SAC.
San Diego Mesa (6-1) is the remaining 1-loss team and holds onto the No. 7 poll position after getting past Mt. San Jacinto, 35-28, last week. Mesa hosts Southwestern this Saturday before going to Riverside next week.
There are still three unbeaten (7-0) American Division teams: No. 21 Pasadena, No. 23 Monterey Peninsula, and No. 24 De Anza.
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