Golden West College has taken a slight lead over Ventura College in this week’s JC Athletic Bureau poll for the California Community College Football Coaches Association as teams enter the regular-season finale.

Conference titles, with state playoff implications, are set for all six National (state championship) Division conferences.

After deadlocking with Ventura atop last week’s poll, Golden West took 10 first-place votes this week and totaled 416 points to move slightly ahead of Ventura (413 points), which gathered the seven remaining first place nods. They are the lone unbeatens (9-0) in the National Division and finish with conference-deciding finals Saturday.

Each conference advances its No. 1 team (using tiebreakers, if needed) to the state playoffs, with three additional teams i

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