“Astounding 10” HS Football Poll-Week 6
Before we unveil this week’s high school football poll and look at recent highlights of teams’ games that aired on the Astound TV Network, a quick programming note…
This Thursday at 7pm, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Football Chairmen Chuck Dailey and Dr. Matt Baltz will be our special guests on “ATVN SportsTalk,” discussing the new football scheduling and other local issues. You can email comments and questions to chris.michael@astound.com and we might read them on this week’s show. The program is broadcasted live on ATVN and also live-streamed for free at: youtube.com/@AstoundTVnetwork
Now, a look at recent highlights of some of the teams featured so far this season on ATVN.
Astound TV Network Sports: East Stroudsburg South vs. Whitehall (9/24)
Astound TV Network Sports: Wilson vs. Catasauqua (8/24)
Astound TV Network Sports: Saucon Valley vs. Bangor (8/24)
Now for the latest “Astounding 10’’ high school football weekly poll for this fall season.
Our pollsters give their selections for who they believe are the top 10 performing football teams that you’ll see on Astound TV Network this fall.
Each voter will select the top 10 teams – with the top team getting 10 points, 9 for the second best team, 8 for third and so forth.
One caveat – in order to balance the bigger and smaller schools in the region, each pollster MUST include at least three teams that are NOT a 6A-sized school.
It’s a brand new way to gauge the top teams in Eastern Pennsylvania this fall, and we invite you to check back each week throughout this football season to see which teams make our poll…and who’s listed where, as decided by our diverse group of voters.
Our voters are a combination of coaches, athletic directors and media members who regularly see different teams in games from different regions of the District XI coverage area.
One other unique aspect to our poll…the coaches and athletic directors’ names are never revealed so they can vote on what they truly believe without any hesitation to avoid any potential “bulletin board” material, so each one can make selections without repercussions.
Throughout the years that we have done our poll, the coaches and athletic directors have always maintained very objective opinions. If you look back through our archives, you’ll notice that our pollsters have been amazingly accurate and unbiased in their selections, and our polls’ top teams very often finish similarly in the same order as the “power points” system that District XI uses when compiling its standings and playoff positionings.
Aside from Freedom holding the top spot yet again this week, there was quite a bit of movement in our poll!
Several teams moved up as Parkland, Northwestern, Easton, Tamaqua, Notre Dame and Liberty all won big games last weekend, while Nazareth and Emmaus slid down after dropping games.
Here’s this week’s edition of the “Astounding 10” … (the number in parenthesis is the average points received for each team, with ‘10’ being the maximum.)
- Freedom (10)
- Parkland (9)
- Easton (7)
- Northwestern (5.8)
- Nazareth (5.6)
- Liberty (5.4)
- Emmaus (3.6)
- Tamaqua (1.8)
- Notre Dame-GP (1.4)
- Blue Mountain (1.2)
Other team(s) receiving more than one mention: Southern Lehigh, Saucon Valley
Bookmark and return to our page each week and check back after this weekend’s game to see if your favorite teams moved up or down in the minds and opinions of our pollsters!
The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Astound Broadband or any other agency, organization, employer or company.
