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    NCAA Cover Vote: Breakdown of Facebook Voting


    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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    Tim Couch, your new cover athlete

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    It wasn't an app? Huh, maybe I'll vote after all.
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    Kentucky is leading? It's got to be rigged! We aren't talking basketball!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffHCross View Post
    It wasn't an app? Huh, maybe I'll vote after all.
    No it's all Facebook stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffHCross View Post
    It wasn't an app? Huh, maybe I'll vote after all.
    Yep, it's just simply a poll posted on the game's Facebook page. Two poll questions, teams Air Force through Missouri and teams Navy through Wyoming.

    And looking at the page right now, holy shit. They have been going insane with poll questions. It's gotta be over 100 different poll questions by now with various teams listed, rivalry, new teams joining conferences, best teams in a conference, etc, pitting anywhere from 2 to 4 or 5 times against each other in a poll asking for likes, comments and votes. Those final vote tallies after the 31st are gonna be insane if all those polls, all those likes and all those comments count.

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    Yeah those various polls count towards the total also, IIRC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
    Yeah those various polls count towards the total also, IIRC.
    Good god. It's gonna be impossible to predict who will make it to the round of 32 then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes View Post
    Yep, it's just simply a poll posted on the game's Facebook page. Two poll questions, teams Air Force through Missouri and teams Navy through Wyoming.

    And looking at the page right now, holy shit. They have been going insane with poll questions. It's gotta be over 100 different poll questions by now with various teams listed, rivalry, new teams joining conferences, best teams in a conference, etc, pitting anywhere from 2 to 4 or 5 times against each other in a poll asking for likes, comments and votes. Those final vote tallies after the 31st are gonna be insane if all those polls, all those likes and all those comments count.
    In response to a similar article posted at pastapadre.com several hours after this one, NCAA Football Marketing Director Randy Chase tweeted this: "The main polls are not the only votes that count. The smaller polls also count." EDIT - Chase later added this on Twitter in response to pastapadre: "it's based on social media engagements..votes in polls, likes, comments, hashtags etc. top 32 with the most engagements move on"

    The usage of these smaller polls is very unclear. In the LIKE v COMMENT battles for conference superiority, do all conference members get votes? Were all schools available to vote on individually (or Like/Comment) at some point in one of these polls? Or what happens when an applicable school (TCU) is missing from a question? There's too many unknowns at how the system works and my fear is that should the Top 32 differ greatly from the Facebook voting results, there will be many claims of shenanigans, regardless of whether or not any occurred. Having the regular updates (as stated) would have helped somewhat as at least then fans could have rallied on the Facebook voting to overcome changes due to the smaller poll results.
    Last edited by cdj; 12-28-2012 at 11:00 PM.

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    This whole idea is stupid

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    Quote Originally Posted by OSUCowboyofMD View Post
    This whole idea is stupid
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    Caring that this is stupid - is stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
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    put whatever you want on the cover. If this game doesn't step it up this year, it won't matter at all. NCAA has become stale and is in need of a major reboot. The cover should show us what the game values for 14.

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    No, caring isn't stupid, steeler. We care about the game, its sales, and how it is marketed. If the marketing is either unsuccessful or frustratingly complicated, then the series could suffer as a result. It's bad enough that there are two polls (A-M and N-Z). Now we throwing in a bunch of other polls too? And tabulating all of those results? Plus likes? Based on, presumably, the alma mater of the people who like the page? Good grief.

    Quote Originally Posted by jaymo76 View Post
    put whatever you want on the cover. If this game doesn't step it up this year, it won't matter at all. NCAA has become stale and is in need of a major reboot. The cover should show us what the game values for 14.
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    I still disagree, Jeff. The cover is the least important facet of any game. It's a waste of energy to concern yourself with it. I have a hard time believing that how the cover is handled will markedly impact sales.

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    Personally, if they're going to do a vote, I wish it was straightforward and simple. That goes for any company, any purpose, any outcome. Over complicating the vote just to get more social media attention is a bad, bad road for companies to go down. And I'm getting real tired of it from EA in particular.
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    First, notice the next to my comment that caring is stupid. I wasn't attacking anyone.

    Second, I'm sure somebody thinks this is a good idea (even if it's just EA). Why is it ok to say that what they care about (people that like the idea, EA) is stupid, but not the other way around?

    For the record, I agree it's stupid. I just also think that caring is too. I suppose you think that my thinking it's stupid to care that this is stupid is - stupid.

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    Ah, wasn't quick enough with my edit I had realized the circular logic problem

    I knew you weren't attacking anyone. Just was amused when you said it was a waste of energy
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffHCross View Post
    Ah, wasn't quick enough with my edit I had realized the circular logic problem

    I knew you weren't attacking anyone. Just was amused when you said it was a waste of energy


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    I always look at game covers as "the marketing team has to earn there paycheck somewhere"

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