How Schools are Faring in First Round of the NCAA Football 14 Cover Vote
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Voting on the first round of the NCAA Football 14 cover campaign continues through Monday but with the poll numbers public the schools moving on can pretty much be solidified at this point. Engagement levels have not been good for EA Sports as only 18 schools have been able to collect over 1K votes in the two weeks now since kicking things off.
The surprise leader is Kentucky who, along with Penn State and Texas A&M, are really dominating the returns thus far. There are a number of big name schools that have gotten essentially no support. Many even have under 100 votes showing that EA Sports failed to get the reach they surely anticipated from this cover vote process.
1- Kentucky 11406
2- Penn State 10534
3- Texas A&M 8051
4- Nebraska 5912
5- Alabama 3812
6- Notre Dame 3268
7- West Virginia 2837
8- Ohio State 2027
9- Michigan 1668
10- Navy 1665
11- Oregon 1564
12- Louisville 1393
13- Florida 1246
14- South Carolina 1226
15- Syracuse 1225
16- LSU 1186
17- Clemson 1076
18- Georgia 1069
19- Washington State 969
20- Florida State 950
21- Old Dominion 854
22- Miami 842
23- Arkansas 800
24- Oklahoma 766
25- Texas 724
26- Air Force 691
27- Army 627
28- Tennessee 595
29- Kansas State 593
30- Wisconsin 591
31- UCLA 579
32- Wyoming 554
In striking distance: Auburn (509), Virginia Tech (485), Texas Tech (472)
With only three days left to collect votes there should be little variance from how the results currently stand. Unfortunately that may not be the case as EA has basically left an opening to push along whoever they want regardless of the polling numbers by supposedly factoring in other chatter at their sole discretion even though none of that can be quantified. Hopefully this is the only round where that may happen – it’s unclear if the process will be changing going forward – as it will bring into question the legitimacy of the final winner otherwise.