Fanspoll.com....Some of you might be interested! | TigerFan.com

geauxscott · Aug 3, 2005

From their site said:

FansPoll.com is a web site created to give college football fans the chance to help choose who should be the 2005 Division 1 National Collegiate Football Champion. The web site was actually started in December 2004 when five undefeated teams were left at the end of the regular season and three undefeated teams remained after the bowl games. George Brown, a 17 year old high school student from Opelika, Alabama wanted to develop a simple system for fans to choose the 2004 National Champion after it was evident that the current system did not work. “Since there is already a coach’s poll and a writer’s poll it makes sense to have a fans poll,” Brown says.

This year we’ve grown. Fanspoll.com had to grow to insure we included fans from all conferences and to be sure the system is fair for all teams. FansPoll.com has produced 119 individual team web pages on the FansPoll.com site, one for each Division I school. At the end of football season, one fan from each of these teams will win the opportunity to be on our FansPoll Selection Committee representing their favorite team. This qualified, fan based Selection Committee will then choose the National Champion and our other 19 National Championship Awards. It’s like a football fans version of an Electoral College.

As a company we’ve aligned ourselves with some prominent national corporations who know sports and sports marketing. These partners will get the word out to fans all across the country so everyone will have the chance to participate. Our 2005 version of FansPoll.com will give us a national presence we didn’t have time to develop last year. And… with our qualified, fan based selection committee making the final choices for our awards, we’ve made our process far more legitimate than an anonymous web poll that leaves itself open to all types of inconsistencies. This innovative system will enable fans from all over the country to become participants, and not just spectators. We all agree that the best way to crown the National Champion should be on the field with some sort of playoff system. But guess what? We’re probably not going to see that happen anytime soon. So we’ve decided that we’re going to do something about the current system by creating our own.

There’s not much left to say about us except we’re just a bunch football fans tired of not having an opinion about the game we love Hopefully you’ll enjoy FansPoll as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it and we can all feel like we’re part of the greatest game in this country…college football
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www.fanspoll.com

Basically, there will be a "pick 'em" contest each week where you'll choose the winners of the week's games. At the end of the season, the person from each school who did the best in the weekly pick 'em contests for the season will represent their school in the final voting for the 2005 National Champion, giving each of the 119 schools one vote apiece.

I figured some of you on this site would like to participate it the "pick'em" and try to get a vote.

philter · Aug 3, 2005

Although it started out as a homer site to crown Auburn champs, I think it holds potential for the far off future.

philter · Aug 3, 2005

Wait is that the same site that the kid created and went on to crown AU champs?

geauxscott · Aug 3, 2005

i believe it was started by the AU kid, but has escalated to an actual serious site.

TitanTiger (AU) · Aug 3, 2005

Last year, it was that People's National Champion web poll thing. Some people liked the kid's idea and wanted to help with the execution of it...make it more legit and representative. So they were able to put things in place to insure no one school could dominate the voting process and various corporate sponsors from Chevrolet to U.S. Airways have signed on.

Oh, and just by signing up for the pick 'ems each week, you are entered into a drawing for a 2006 Chevy Tahoe.

BTW, I have no stake in the site itself. But I do think it will be more fun with everyone involved this year.

MarineTiger · Aug 3, 2005

Uh, no thanks.

TitanTiger (AU) · Aug 3, 2005

MarineTiger said:

Uh, no thanks.
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Sorry you feel that way. At least drop by the Tailgating section and share some good recipes. Keep up LSU's rep for having the best tailgating food in college football.

http://www.fanspoll.com/fanspollweb/frmUncleLutherHome.aspx

Proud Tiger · Aug 3, 2005

philter said:

Wait is that the same site that the kid created and went on to crown AU champs?
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Yep, the very same one a lot of people made fun of. it has grown into an intertesting deal with major sponsors. Who better to determine a MNC than fans fron all the schools. There will be an LSU rep......it could be you (except for Marine Tiger :hihi: )

diamondheadtiger · Aug 3, 2005

TitanTiger (AU) said:

Last year, it was that People's National Champion web poll thing.
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Lame

TitanTiger (AU) · Aug 3, 2005

dheadtiger said:

Lame
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Well, I don't think the kid thought it would get as far as it did last year. But you can't complain about the process he's trying to set up this year to include every Division 1A team and conference and only giving one vote per school (and that based on their abilities in picking the winners each week throughout the season).

I just wish I'd thought of this the way it is now before he did.