Michigan tops mostly useless "most engaged" football fans list
In another offseason, mostly meaningless ranking, Michigan came out on top of TicketCity's list of "college football's most engaged fans." At least this ranking wasn't just pulled out of thin air: there were criteria and measurable data. So, even if the methodology is questionable, at least there is a methodology.
http://www.ticketcity.com/helpful-links/news-articles/college-footballs-most-engaged-fans.html
TicketCity based the rankings on such criteria as attendance, ticket prices, face book likes, ticket prices, and twitter followers (evil genious Dave Brandon strikes again!) Here are the top ten schools:
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Overall Rank
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Conference
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Institution
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Overall Score
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1 | Big 10 | University of Michigan | 100.00 |
2 | SEC | Louisiana State University | 95.43 |
3 | SEC | University of Alabama | 95.18 |
4 | Big 10 | Ohio State University | 92.94 |
5 | SEC | Texas A&M University | 88.91 |
6 | Big 10 | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | 87.88 |
7 | Big 12 | University of Oklahoma | 82.77 |
8 | Big 12 | University of Texas - Austin | 82.11 |
9 | SEC | University of Georgia | 81.83 |
10 | SEC | University of Florida | 79.86 |
Here we go.
teams in top 10 from SEC. Dangit B1G! Get out there and start crootin' like you mean it and do better on them polls! (not them POLES, Ohio!).
/Urb'd
Looks like 5 teams to me
Bad counting man. And you could even keep it on one hand so no excuse really
Posted 23 hours ago... http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/michigan-football-best-fans-anywhere
Access denied to thread. Does that mean it went to Bolivia?
per the mod action sticky thread, that thread got tossed for linking to the article on Bleacher Report, which is cause for auto-punting a thread.
Wow - this is one of the few cases I'm cool with a double post, simply because the first post had such a terrible title. This is why good thread titles are important. I thought the post titled "Michigan has best fans anywhere" was just going to be some guy's opinion so I didn't click it. This title implies an actual list exists, so I did.
Also, if the first poster had a title that was at all informational, this OP may have known about it. Can't fault OP for not searching as his search probably wouldn't have brought up that thread title anyway.
so there's not really a double post, but I wanted to say that I couldn't agree more on informative titles being important.
to their cousins.
To start! Im not saying these topics aren't fun, I'm just saying....
the Bleacher Report! Hit F5 often for hilarity till it's deleted.
That would be fine, but this isn't Bleacher Report material. I posted the link to TicketCity who actually created the content. Yes, BR took it from TicketCity and reposted it, mostly verbatim. That is one of the reasons there is a ban on BR links here. The other reason is that when BR does actually create its own content, it's so bad, baseless, useless that it's a waste of everyone's time.
While this list may be mostly fluff, it's 100 times better than anything BR creates on its own.
Count ticket prices twice??
As a grad of a Pac12 university their absence is not surprising to me.
On a related note, Michigan #1 in the “Fans who Procrastinate at Work” poll.
I'll think about it and comment on this later.
GO BLUE
I mean, I get it is a pretty stupid ranking, but I don't get why everyone is on the OP for posting it. It's something where Michigan is #1, it's the off season, and it is on topic. It was posted yesterday from Bleacher Report, so I get why that was deleted. The official UM Facebook and Twitter thought it was worthwhile to put out, so I don't get why it isn't board material. That being said, we can certainly question the suspect methodology.
...of polls ranking Michigan.
electricity, that's pretty good....thoughts?
I'm somewhat engaged with my team.
I guess making my own 1K-plus page Michigan Football book of historical information counts.
Or having a room with a few Michigan things here and there.
Great work my man. I have to work on my game
Don't think of it as work. The point is just to enjoy yourself.
Your room kind of looks like Ray Finkle's room in Ace Ventura. Just kidding, Wolverine Devotee. Truth be told, I'm a little jealous.
Not a lot of women coming to your room, I'd imagine.
Probably time to upgrade that double sized bed to a queen...
LOL
This is a sweet collection/room though. I remember this being posted in my "Post your Michigan gear thread".
He might have a side entrance to his mom's basement.
well there must be at least one, I'm sure...after all, this is posted in a "most engaged fans" thread
/affianc'd
I firmly believe that he's still in high school. If not, he needs to have a serious chat with Chris Hansen.
I would love this for a guest bedroom....(I have a few sparties in the family)
Color me unimpressed.*
Our ticket partners at SeatCrunch (the guys behind this button )
were looking to do some sort of editorial thing like this too. We tried and tried to cull their ticket data for something useful and ultimately we got the same kind of stuff Ticketcity got and deemed it not worthy of an article.
I appreciate the fact that our guys gave up when there wasn't enough to say rather than try to invent some half-assed "you're the bestest fans!" article. I already know we have the best fans. Every concert musician has said so.
*teal is the color of indifference.
While the metric is horribly flawed, it's still nice to see us on top.
What I found more interesting was that only three conferences are represented AT ALL.
The Pac-whatever, ACC, and Big East (hehe) all have NO teams up there at all.