Monday, January 18, 2021

Which College Team Has The Biggest Online Following?

 


Which College Team Has The Biggest Online Following?

We broke a team’s online presence into 4 categories:
Dedicated Websites: Sites dedicated specifically to a school’s team. This includes fan blogs, but only those dedicated specifically to that specific team.
Social Media. There are a million social media platforms out there, but we stuck with the big 3: Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter.
Message Boards: Again, only those specifically dedicated to a specific team.
Search engine searches: We used Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Duckduckgo.


We put together a scoring system, giving each FBS team a score in each of those four categories, looking at subs, fans, traffic.. basically every number we could find. (We stuck with BCS, but there are a number of non BCS schools that have huge followings; by our score, North Dakota State and James Madison, for example, would have cracked the BCS top 50 ) Divided the total by 4, and used that score to compile our list.

Some things came as no surprise. Ask any football fan who they think would end up on top of a list like this, most will no doubt mention Ohio State, ‘Bama, and Clemson. And they would be right. But there were also some that surprised us. Who knew that BYU and Rutgers have huge online followings? Some teams known to have amazing fan bases ranked surprisingly low; it turns out some of them have huge support at home, but not much across the country.


Is this scientific? Maybe a little. But it was a blast for us to do, and it does make a great discussion. So below, you will find all 130 FBS schools, in order.

1. Clemson

2. Alabama

3. Michigan

4. Tennessee

5. Texas A&M

6. Ohio St.

7. Miami (Fla.)

8. Mississippi St.

9. LSU

10. Florida

11. Texas

12. West Virginia

13. Rutgers

14. Georgia

15. Notre Dame

16. Michigan St.

17. Florida St.

18. BYU

19. Oklahoma

20. South Carolina

21. Penn St.

22. Auburn

23. Wisconsin

24. North Carolina

25. Kentucky

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