“Astounding 10” HS Football Poll-Week 8
We had four exciting high school football games last weekend on the Astound TV Network.
Undefeated Freedom kept up its great season with a big win over its rival from Bethlehem Catholic and continue to be the number-one ranked team in our poll, as they have been since week three (more on that below).
Head Coach Jason Roeder and those same Patriot players will be in our studio this Thursday to talk about their great week one win up in New York City, their successes so far this fall and the read ahead, on this Thursday’s ATVN’s “SportsTalk” show, live on our network at 7pm.
We’ll also have interviews from this year’s top boys and girls finishers in the District XI golf tournament.
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Then on Friday, we’ll have a pair of 6-1 teams (Easton vs. Liberty) live at 7pm, followed by Freedom and Northampton. On Saturday we’ll have Parkland playing Central Catholic – both teams are coming off big wins last weekend.
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 (7.6)
- Nazareth (5.4)
- Northwestern (5)
- Liberty (4.8)
- Emmaus (4.2)
- Blue Mountain (1.2)
- Southern Lehigh (1)
- Notre Dame – Green Pond (.08)
Other team(s) receiving more than one mention: 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!
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