Easton, Liberty, Northwestern and Notre Dame-Green Pond are among those moving up in this week’s football polls, but first, here’s just some of what you missed if you weren’t watching Astound TV Network this weekend….
Saquon Barkley Talks To ATVN Following His Ceremony
Saquon Barkley Whitehall Hall of Fame Speech
Tanner Dogmanits Ties The Game
Justin Hussett Extends The Zephyr Lead To Open 2nd Half
ATVN Shorts: Shane Leh Keeps It Himself For Six
ATVN Shorts: Leh Lets It Fly!
Be sure to check back to “The SportsTalk Shop” later this week to see more highlights of your favorite local high school sports teams and players!!
It’s time for this week’s rankings of the top teams in the District XI region.
Our pollsters this fall will be giving 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 points for the second-best team, 8 for third and so forth. The voting committee itself consists of media members, football coaches and athletic directors in this region (we randomly select different coaches and “ADs” each year to get different points of view).
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 different 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, our voters (especially the pollsters from the schools themselves) 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 positioning’s.
As far as which media members have a say? Don’t be surprised if they identify themselves on our Thursday “SportsTalk” show, which, this fall, will be streamed live on YouTube on Thursdays at 7pm, in addition to being broadcast each week on ATVN.
So without any further delay, here’s the grand unveiling of this week’s new “Astound 10” poll…(the number in parenthesis is the average points received for each team, with ‘10’ being the maximum.)
- Parkland (9.85)
- Nazareth (8.13)
- Easton (7.67)
- Northwestern (7.16)
- Southern Lehigh (5.40)
- Liberty (3.85)
- Northampton (3.50)
- Notre Dame-Green Pond (2.67)
- Becahi (2.50)
- (tie) Freedom / Whitehall (1.68)
Other teams receiving more than one mention: Emmaus, Palisades
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 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 or any other agency, organization, employer or company.
