Fox 5 Atlanta High 5 Sports Team of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

The ballot lives on Facebook. Nowhere else.

Search "Fox 5 Atlanta Team of the Week" and you might expect a contest page on fox5atlanta.com. There isn't one. The entire mechanic runs as a recurring Facebook poll on facebook.com/HIGH5Sports, five programs, one post, refreshed every week of the fall season. No entry form. No standalone microsite. Just a post that changes.

That matters more than it sounds. Old weekly posts don't disappear once voting ends; they sit on the timeline looking exactly as live as the current one. Confirmed 2025 nominees included Lassiter High School (Cobb County), Marietta High School (Cobb County), and Centennial High School (Fulton County), each surfacing on a different week's ballot, not all at once. A supporter who finds last month's post and starts sharing it has wasted the effort entirely.

Georgia runs several other weekly and seasonal fan recognitions beyond this one. See the full Georgia contest directory for the rest.

Two ballots, one page, one very common mistake

Team of the Week and Game of the Week post to the same Facebook page in the same week. That's it. That's the trap. One asks fans to pick a favorite program out of five nominees; the other asks fans to pick which matchup the Fox 5 crew shows up and films live. Different pools of nominees, different prize on the other end, a highlight segment versus an in-person camera crew.

So confirm the poll title before sharing anything. A booster club that pours a week of effort into the wrong post accomplishes nothing for their actual nomination. It happens more than you'd think, mostly because both polls look nearly identical scrolling past them on a phone. For how these recurring, share-driven ballots generally work across platforms, see the fan poll overview.

Why a Cobb County school and a Fulton County school end up on the same ballot

Fox 5's broadcast footprint is wide, and the weekly five-team list reflects that instead of rotating through one county at a time. Lassiter and Marietta (both Cobb) and Centennial (Fulton) all appeared across the 2025 season, proof the producers aren't running a quiet county-by-county rotation.

Five programs from that entire footprint compete on one ballot in any given week. So a nominated school is really drawing on its own county's network, parents, alumni, whoever's in the group chats, to outlast four unrelated programs it may never actually play. And here's the uncomfortable part: a program with an organized booster page and a habit of sharing things on Facebook has a real edge over a program with a stronger team but a quieter online presence. The game result that week barely factors in. Programs elsewhere in the state can compare notes against the wider USA fan-vote hub, which tracks similar weekly ballots in other markets.

Running a real push when the organiser won't tell you the deadline

No published cutoff time. No submission form. No account beyond a Facebook login. That's an unusual amount of the standard playbook missing, and it changes how a program's supporters should actually operate here.

Start the moment a program is confirmed nominated, not Friday afternoon. The segment airs Friday night, but nothing on the record says voting stays open until kickoff. Treat Thursday evening as the practical deadline and verify against the live post, because guessing wrong costs a program its last full day of sharing. A message naming the school, its county, and a direct link to the exact HIGH5Sports post gives a parent or alum everything they need to act in ten seconds instead of hunting for the right poll themselves.

For programs whose organic Facebook reach falls short of what a five-team, metro-wide ballot demands, fan-poll vote support is built for exactly this kind of weekly, no-account, share-driven vote, and Facebook-specific vote support covers the platform mechanics directly. Broader mechanics of recurring fan votes are covered at the how-to guide, and booster clubs weighing options generally can review buying votes online and real vote support. Programs already tracking Georgia's playoff-season recognitions may also know the Georgia Playoff Player of the Week vote as a related weekly ballot.