Voting among all 126 FBS programs to grace the upcoming cover of NCAA Football ends Monday night, December 31. While it was expected from the get-go that the traditional college powers would dominate voting, tabulating the public Facebook voting totals shows some surprises as well.
Keep in mind that "every single fan interaction counts as a vote," so there could be some significant changes in store when the Top 32 is announced in January 2013. However, without regular updates (as stated would occur) the Facebook vote totals are the only way for fans & schools to see where they stand.
As of late Thursday night, the top schools in the voting were: Kentucky, Penn State, Texas A&M, Nebraska, Alabama and Notre Dame. Surprises in the top 32 include: #9 Navy, #21 Old Dominion, #26 Air Force, #27 Army and #32 Wyoming.
The voting total as of then sat at 85,308 with users being able to cast one vote for schools A-M and another for N-Z. While it appears the schools currently in the lead have benefited from promotion and word of mouth among fans, some schools seemingly have missed the memo. For example, 19 schools have less than 50 votes and FIU sits dead last with just 20 votes.
Having voting occur on Facebook was a smart idea as it ensures users can only vote once and - even better- it did not come in the form of an app that would intrude on user privacy. However, without a clear indication of "fan interaction votes" and an easy to follow leaderboard, fans & schools do not know where they stand thus decreasing any late 'get out the vote' attempts and hype for the cover vote. There may be programs just outside the top 32 who could have moved up with late promotion, but they had no idea of where they stood in voting.
Did you vote for your school in the NCAA Football Cover Vote? What aspects did you like & dislike? Continue on to view the full ranking of FBS programs. If the vote totals are available after the Dec. 31 deadline, we will update this article with them.
Rank School Votes 1 Kentucky 11,399 2 Penn State 10,493 3 Texas A&M 8,041 4 Nebraska 5,903 5 Alabama 3,805 6 Notre Dame 3,259 7 West Virginia 2,833 8 Ohio State 2,017 9 Navy 1,664 10 Michigan 1,663 11 Oregon 1,561 12 Louisville 1,391 13 Florida 1,242 14 Syracuse 1,224 15 South Carolina 1,219 16 LSU 1,183 17 Clemson 1,075 18 Georgia 1,065 19 Washington State 968 20 Florida State 945 21 Old Dominion 854 22 Miami 840 23 Arkansas 799 24 Oklahoma 765 25 Texas 722 26 Air Force 688 27 Army 627 28 Tennessee 594 29 Kansas State 592 30 Wisconsin 586 31 UCLA 579 32 Wyoming 554 33 Auburn 510 34 Virginia Tech 485 35 San Jose State 482 36 Texas Tech 472 37 Iowa 430 38 Michigan State 416 39 East Carolina 388 40 Missouri 372 41 UL Lafayette 352 42 Louisiana Tech 341 43 NC State 330 44 TCU 326 45 USC 320 46 Kansas 306 47 Baylor 302 48 UTSA 280 49 South Alabama 279 50 Boise State 274 51 North Carolina 260 52 Rutgers 247 53 Pittsburgh 246 54 Illinois 223 55 Washington 208 56t Arizona State 202 56t Oklahoma State 202 58 Utah 200 59 Arizona 199 60 BYU 198 61 Iowa State 196 62t Cincinnati 178 62t Ole Miss 178 64 Oregon State 161 65 Minnesota 156 66t Boston College 141 66t UCF 141 68 Idaho 128 69t Mississippi State 125 69t Northern Illinois 125 71t Akron 122 71t Fresno State 122 71t Maryland 122 74t Georgia Tech 121 74t Western Kentucky 121 76 Stanford 114 77 Northwestern 113 78 New Mexico 112 79 Arkansas State 104 80 Vanderbilt 102 81t Purdue 101 81t Nevada 101 83 Marshall 96 84 Virginia 94 85t Miami U 89 85t USF 89 87 Kent State 83 88 Hawai'i 82 89 New Mexico State 80 90 Colorado 79 91 Ohio 79 92 Indiana 77 93t California 75 93t Duke 75 95 Houston 72 96 Central Michigan 71 97t Temple 70 97t Texas State 70 99t Colorado State 64 99t Florida Atlantic 64 101 Middle Tennessee State 63 102 Utah State 61 103 Toledo 60 104 Bowling Green 58 105 North Texas 56 106 Ball State 52 107 UL Monroe 51 108 Connecticut 49 109 San Diego State 47 110 Buffalo 46 111 UMass 43 112 Troy 41 113t Eastern Michigan 37 113t Southern Miss 37 115 Western Michigan 35 116 Georgia State 32 117 Rice 30 118 Memphis 29 119 UTEP 29 120t SMU 27 120t Tulsa 27 122 UAB 26 123 Wake Forest 25 124 UNLV 23 125 Tulane 22 126 FIU 20
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