We hope you enjoyed Astound’s exclusive coverage of the Celtic Classic last weekend but looking ahead, we’re back with yet another big weekend of HS football on ATVN, with four games coming your way!
On Thursday, we’ll have another Bethlehem battle as undefeated Freedom plays Bethlehem Catholic. On Friday, we’ll have yet another undefeated Christmas City team – Liberty – taking on Nazareth (the #4 and #5 teams in our poll – see below), followed by Whitehall traveling to Emmaus. On Saturday, we’ll once again feature the Colonial League with two teams coming off explosive victories last week: Notre Dame – Green Pond and Pen Argyl.
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 the 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.
One other unique aspect to our poll…the coaches and athletic directors’ names are never revealed so they can vote with their minds…and also 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.
So without any further delay, 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 (7.2)
- Liberty (5.6)
- Nazareth (4.6)
- Northwestern (4.2)
- Emmaus (4)
- Tamaqua (1.8)
- Blue Mountain (1.2)
- Notre Dame – Green Pond (0.8)
Other team(s) receiving more than one mention: Southern Lehigh
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.
