A two-point home victory. … In the scope of things, that’s all the Cerritos College football team did last Saturday night, when it held off visiting Bakersfield, 21-19, in both school’s season opener.

The Falcons simply took care of their home turf and squeezed out a narrow victory. They are 1-0, like many other programs.

All right, there you have it, the generic spin. A win, is a win, is a win, and it’s on the next week. … Blah, blah, blah. … If it sounds like coach-speak, it probably is just that. After all, Cerritos coach Frank Mazzotta is too experienced to dare to look any further than Saturday’s road trip to College of the Canyons.

Looking ahead? Projecting? Predicting? Guessing? … That’s our job, so we might as well do it, while the iron is still hot.

Cerritos’ win over Bakersfield wasn’t, in fact, just another victory. It came at the expense of a team ranked No. 1 in Southern California, No. 2 in the State and No. 5 in the nation, in various polls.

The Falcons, now fasten your seat belts here, could win a national championship this season. Their victory on Saturday over the Renegades figures to push their national ranking into the top 10 range, or higher.

The formula for a top ranking at season’s end is a simple one: Don’t lose. And with the Falcons’ schedule – one of the toughest in the state – an undefeated season and a bowl game victory in Game 11 should be the key to the penthouse.

Rankings are about style points and the judges love victories over highly-ranked opponents, such as Bakersfield, for starters.

But Bakersfield was the first of several forks in the road. Dangerous Canyons sports a state-ranking. At current, so do Mission Conference heavyweights El Camino, Mount San Antonio, Long Beach City, and yes, even Pasadena.

If the Falcons can beat all six possibily-ranked teams in their 10-game regular season, that should put them into a position to win a national title in a bowl game.

Can it be done? Why not? The Falcons already beat the highest-ranked (preseason) team on their schedule. Will it be done? Who knows? But to refer to coach speak, if we may, it can be if, “we stay healthy and get some bounces to go our way. Everyone will need to give a 100-percent effort.”

Oh yeah, “one game at a time and we got the first one.”