HS Football “Astounding 10” Preseason Poll ‘25
VIDEO: ATVN Sports Talk – Central Catholic Football
Last fall, we tried a brand-new way to feature local teams in our coverage area: the “Astounding 10’’ high school football weekly poll!
With so many media outlets, bloggers and pretty much anyone now with a laptop in Eastern Pennsylvania ranking teams in the standard manner, we tried something new – and were thrilled to hear our audience appreciated our efforts.
Hearing our viewers/readers’ positive feedback to this new idea, we are once again bringing back our unique (and comprehensive) ranking of the top teams in the ATVN viewing area.
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 each team getting 10 points for the top team, 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 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, 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 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 Thursday at 7pm, in addition to being broadcast each week on ATVN.
So without any further delay, here’s the grand unveiling of this year’s new “Astound 10” for our preseason poll….(the number in parenthesis is the average points received for each team, with ‘10’ being the maximum.)
- Parkland (9.8)
- Emmaus (8.5)
- Nazareth (6.2)
- Freedom (6.1)
- Easton (5.8)
- Northwestern (5.2)
- Southern Lehigh (5.1)
- Liberty (2.2)
- Whitehall (1.8)
- East Stroudsburg South (1.7)
Other teams receiving more than one mention: Notre Dame-Green Pond, Northampton
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.
