{"id":89208,"date":"2024-10-14T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/?p=89208"},"modified":"2024-10-15T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:44:03","slug":"st-hs-football-poll-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/st-hs-football-poll-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAstounding 10\u201d HS Football Poll-Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

After another exciting weekend of football games on the Astound TV Network<\/em>, we\u2019re ready for more this week!<\/span><\/p>\n

The playoff races are heading up and both the race for the final playoff spots \u2013 as well as the battle to try to secure home field advantages \u2013 will come down to the final two weeks of the regular season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among this weekend\u2019s broadcasts on ATVN include two of the top Eastern Pennsylvania Conference teams \u2013 Easton (7-1) and Freedom (8-0) \u2013 squaring off against each other.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then on Saturday, we\u2019ll have NCAA football as Lafayette hosts Sacred Heart at 12:30pm.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll also have four more games NEXT weekend \u2013 the final week of high school football regular season action.\u00a0 Check back to our broadcast schedule page here on our website early next week to see the teams and air times of those contests.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now for the latest \u201cAstounding 10<\/strong>\u2019\u2019 high school football weekly poll for this fall season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our pollsters give their selections for who they believe are the top 10 performing football teams that you\u2019ll see on the Astound TV Network<\/em> this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each voter will select the top 10 teams \u2013 with the top team getting 10 points, 9 for the second best team, 8 for third and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n

One caveat \u2013 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 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\u2026and who\u2019s listed where, as decided by our diverse group of voters.<\/span><\/p>\n

One other unique aspect to our poll\u2026the coaches and athletic directors\u2019 names are never revealed so they can vote with their minds\u2026and also avoid any potential \u201cbulletin board\u201d material, so each one can make selections without repercussions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the years that we have done our poll, the coaches and athletic directors have always maintained very objective opinions.\u00a0 If you look back through our archives, you\u2019ll notice that our pollsters have been amazingly accurate and unbiased in their selections, and our polls\u2019 top teams very often finish similarly in the same order as the \u201cpower points\u201d system that District XI uses when compiling its standings and playoff positionings.<\/span><\/p>\n

So without any further delay, here\u2019s this week\u2019s edition of the \u201cAstounding 10<\/strong>\u201d \u2026 (the number in parenthesis is the average points received for each team, with \u201810\u2019 being the maximum.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Freedom (10)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Parkland (9)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Easton (7.8)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Nazareth (5.4)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Northwestern (5.2)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Emmaus (4.8)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Liberty (4.2)<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Notre Dame (2.8)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Southern Lehigh (2.6)<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Saucon Valley (.06)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Other team(s) receiving more than one mention: (none)<\/span><\/p>\n

    Bookmark and return to our page each week and check back after this weekend\u2019s game to see if your favorite teams moved up or down in the minds and opinions of our pollsters!<\/span><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The views expressed in this blog are<\/span><\/i> 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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The playoff races are heading up and both the race for the final playoff spots \u2013 as well as the battle to try to secure home field advantages \u2013 will come down to the final two weeks…<\/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":"","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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-the-sportstalk-shop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cAstounding 10\u201d HS Football Poll-Week 9 - ATVN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/st-hs-football-poll-week-9\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cAstounding 10\u201d HS Football Poll-Week 9 - ATVN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After another exciting weekend of football games on the Astound TV Network, we\u2019re ready for more this week! 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