{"id":78758,"date":"2016-10-04T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.web.rcn.net\/rcntv\/?p=78758"},"modified":"2023-04-12T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:24:25","slug":"sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The SportsTalk Shop:  HS Football Poll &#8211; Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XjmTdxysTSw\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Without question, it\u2019s been one of the wildest high school football seasons in recent memory, and our poll experts have had a heck of a time trying to give us perspective on which have been the top teams each week.\u00a0 Heck, we pretty much went the last two years with Parkland being the definitive top team in the Lehigh Valley region.<\/p>\n<p>Undaunted, we\u2019ll proceed in unveiling this week\u2019s listing of the best teams in the RCN coverage area for District XI.<\/p>\n<p>But first, a quick recap of how we put our polls together and arrive at our conclusions for our bi-weekly \u00a0results.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike polls that consist of a couple representatives within the same organization, our poll is much more varied with input from many different people over a wider scope.\u00a0 Our voting panel consists of local media members from different outlets, along with local coaches and athletic directors from across the entire district.\u00a0 The voters are not identified (unless they appear on our \u201cSportsTalk\u201d TV show and podcast and chose to reveal themselves) so they can give their honest impressions without any worry of outside pressures or \u201cbulletin board\u201d material, and we rotate different pollsters from different schools each year, including guests from our biggest to our smallest schools.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this fall\u2019s change in the PIAA classification, our poll remains with the standard, tried-and-true format that we have utilized for many seasons.\u00a0 We will take the 400-male enrollment number as the cutoff for schools within the District XI\/RCN footprint.\u00a0 All schools above that number qualify as \u201cbig schools\u201d in our poll. These schools consist of Parkland, Liberty, Allen, Easton, Emmaus, Liberty, Dieruff, Freedom, Stroudsburg, Pleasant Valley, Northampton, Nazareth, East Stroudsburg-South, Whitehall, Southern Lehigh and Bangor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall schools\u201d (below 400-male enrollment) consist of Saucon Valley, Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Northwestern, Wilson, Palisades, Palmerton, Salisbury, Notre Dame, Pen Argyl, Northern Lehigh and Catasauqua.\u00a0 Each pollster will identify their top five teams in each group\u2014the top school gets five points, the second team gets four points and so on, with an average score determining the order of teams in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here are this week\u2019s poll results\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c BIG\u201d SCHOOL FB Poll<\/strong> (10 pollsters)<br \/>\n1. Emmaus \u2013 50 total points (ten &#8211; 1<sup>st<\/sup> place votes<br \/>\n2. Parkland \u2013 40<br \/>\n3. Whitehall \u2013 19<br \/>\n4. Liberty &#8211; 16<br \/>\n5. Freedom \u2013 14<br \/>\nNote: Pleasant Valley and Stroudsburg also received at least one vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSmall SCHOOL\u201d FB Poll<\/strong> (9 pollsters)<br \/>\n1. Becahi \u2013 44 total points\u00a0 (eight &#8211; 1<sup>st<\/sup> place votes)<br \/>\n2. Central Catholic \u2013 34\u00a0 (one -1<sup>st<\/sup> place vote)<br \/>\n3. Notre Dame \u2013 26<br \/>\n4-tie \u00a0Northwestern \u2013 15<br \/>\nSaucon Valley &#8212; 15<br \/>\nOther schools receiving at least one vote:\u00a0Pen Argyl<\/p>\n<p>Disagree with someone\u2019s placement?\u00a0 Should one team be ranked higher than another?\u00a0 Feel free to email us at <a href=\"mailto:rcnsportstalk@rcn.com\">rcnsportstalk@rcn.com<\/a> or call us during our live show this Thursday to voice your opinion and talk football with us.\u00a0 Joining Keith Groller and me will be Philadelphia Eagles Beat Writer Nick Fierro to preview the Birds game against Detroit this weekend (Nick also has some interesting thoughts on HS football as well).\u00a0 We\u2019ll also have Bill Ladson (mlb.com writer) on this week\u2019s show to talk about the MLB playoff races.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without question, it\u2019s been one of the wildest high school football seasons in recent memory, and our poll experts have had a heck of a time trying to give us perspective on which have been the top teams each week.\u00a0 Heck, we pretty much went the last two years with Parkland being the definitive top&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Yoast SEO Relevanssi index exclude","inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[163,220,595],"class_list":["post-78758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","category-the-sportstalk-shop","tag-district-xi-football","tag-high-school-football","tag-lehigh-valley-football"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The SportsTalk Shop: HS Football Poll - Week 6 - ATVN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The SportsTalk Shop: HS Football Poll - Week 6 - ATVN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Without question, it\u2019s been one of the wildest high school football seasons in recent memory, and our poll experts have had a heck of a time trying to give us perspective on which have been the top teams each week.\u00a0 Heck, we pretty much went the last two years with Parkland being the definitive top...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-6-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ATVN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-04T18:32:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-12T19:24:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris Michael\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chris Michael\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.astound.com\\\/atvn\\\/sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-6-2\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.astound.com\\\/atvn\\\/sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-6-2\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chris Michael\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.astound.com\\\/atvn\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6aba8df7f74bf50b72426776afd0067a\"},\"headline\":\"The SportsTalk Shop: HS Football Poll &#8211; 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