“Astounding 10” HS Football Poll-Week 9
After another exciting weekend of football games on the Astound TV Network, we’re ready for more this week!
The playoff races are heading up and both the race for the final playoff spots – as well as the battle to try to secure home field advantages – will come down to the final two weeks of the regular season.
Among this weekend’s broadcasts on ATVN include two of the top Eastern Pennsylvania Conference teams – Easton (7-1) and Freedom (8-0) – squaring off against each other.
Then on Saturday, we’ll have NCAA football as Lafayette hosts Sacred Heart at 12:30pm.
We’ll also have four more games NEXT weekend – the final week of high school football regular season action. Check back to our broadcast schedule page here on our website early next week to see the teams and air times of those contests.
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 (7.8)
- Nazareth (5.4)
- Northwestern (5.2)
- Emmaus (4.8)
- Liberty (4.2)
- Notre Dame (2.8)
- Southern Lehigh (2.6)
- Saucon Valley (.06)
Other team(s) receiving more than one mention: (none)
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.
