BLITZ Sports GA Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

A 13-county footprint that outlasts most Georgia fan polls

Most Georgia high school football polls are tied to a single TV market or a single newspaper's coverage radius. BLITZ Sports GA's Player of the Week runs wider: 13 counties across Northeast Georgia, one weekly ballot pulling nominees from Friday nights spread across that entire footprint. And it has done this since 2009, long enough that the program has now crowned 2,557 total honorees across its run.

That number matters more than it might look at first glance. A poll that has run for over fifteen straight seasons has survived coaching changes, realignments, and whatever else happens to Georgia high school football in a decade and a half. Most weekly fan-vote programs don't make it that far. BLITZ Sports GA's did, and the honoree count is the receipt.

Here's the part newcomers get wrong, though: BLITZ Sports GA runs two separate weekly honors, and only one of them is a vote. The BLITZ Pick is the staff's own call, an editorial selection with no ballot attached. The Player of the Week is the actual public poll, live at blitzsportsga.com/player-of-the-week. Confuse the two, and you'll spend your energy on a page that has no vote to cast.

What the 13 counties look like on a competitive week

The footprint runs through Hall County and the Gainesville area on one end and out toward smaller programs in Habersham, Banks, Stephens, Franklin, Hart, and Elbert counties on the other. That's not one media market covering one dominant school system. It's a regional mix where a program from a smaller county can land on the same weekly ballot as a program from a much larger one, simply because both had a game worth putting in front of voters that week.

One confirmed data point shows what a real week of turnout looks like here: a November 2025 poll pulled 6,386 votes. That's not a projection or an estimate. It's a cited total from an actual ballot. When a week draws multiple communities pushing for their own nominee at once, the volume adds up fast across a 13-county area.

The current public page doesn't publish a classification floor for who gets nominated, and it doesn't spell out an exact per-person vote cap either. Both of those are worth checking directly at blitzsportsga.com/player-of-the-week before assuming either detail matches what a sibling Georgia poll does. For the broader mechanics of how an uncapped or lightly-capped regional fan poll typically runs, see the online vote-buying guide.

Running a real push across a multi-county footprint

A 13-county poll rewards a different kind of push than a single-school ballot. There is no one dominant booster club here: the community structure is really thirteen overlapping ones, each centered on its own county's programs. A push that only reaches one county's parent network will hit a ceiling fast on a ballot this wide, especially in a week when a Hall County-area program and a smaller county's program are both nominated.

What the 6,386-vote November 2025 poll suggests is that real, contested weeks on this ballot are not a niche event. They can pull thousands of votes when more than one community mobilizes at once, a meaningfully different scale than a single-district poll, and it changes what "enough turnout" actually looks like for a nominee trying to win a given week.

The most direct move is simple: get the exact blitzsportsga.com/player-of-the-week link (not the BLITZ Pick page, and not the homepage) in front of every parent group, team account, and community channel tied to the nominated program, and do it as soon as that week's ballot goes live. For programs whose organic reach across the 13 counties tops out before the week closes, fan poll vote support and sports fan-poll vote support exist for open, public-turnout polls of exactly this shape. Georgia's wider fan-vote landscape, including the statewide Georgia High School Player of the Year and the North Georgia Football Player of the Week, sits alongside this one at the Georgia contest hub, part of the full USA contest directory.