Reader Savannah Morning News Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What separates the Savannah Morning News reader poll from Georgia's other football ballots

Most Georgia public-vote programmes covered on this site answer to a broadcaster or a statewide sports outlet. This one answers to a city newspaper. The Reader Savannah Morning News Football Player of the Week is run by the Savannah Morning News, the daily paper serving Savannah on the Georgia coast, and it puts a single question to its readers each week of the high school football season: which nominated player deserves the honour.

That publisher difference shapes everything else. The Atlanta television and statewide sports ballots in this market draw nominees from across Georgia, while this poll's ballot lists players from Savannah-area schools such as Benedictine, Savannah Christian and Calvary Day, the schools that appeared on the confirmed 2024 ballot. The audience is a coastal Georgia readership, not a statewide one, and the prize is a weekly newspaper honour rather than a season-long title.

The host is the same family of tools many newsroom polls use: Crowdsignal, reached through poll.fm. The confirmed ballot address for this programme is poll.fm/14688749, a plain public-vote page where a reader marks one player and submits. The ballot page describes no registration step, and the newspaper attaches no purchase of any kind to voting.

Facts at a glance

The dated history: which editions of the Savannah football poll are confirmed

Two edition years stand behind this programme: 2022 and 2024. Both years are anchored to the same season shape, a weekly series of ballots running from August through November, which is the span the confirmed 2024 season covered across eight ballots. The 2022 edition is noted separately in the programme's history, so the series has operated in two separate years rather than as a single run.

Because the series is weekly, the dated history is a set of seasons rather than a single annual event with one open and close date. The 2024 season's ballots fell in August, September, October and November. What the newspaper does not publish is the exact day each weekly ballot opens or closes. A supporter who needs the precise cut-off for the current week has to read it off the live poll.fm page, since no dated window is printed in a fixed form anywhere for this programme.

The same gap applies to the next edition. The series is treated as annual on the strength of its 2022 and 2024 runs, but no year has been named for the next season. Whether football returns to this ballot in 2026, 2027 or any later year, and which week the first ballot of that season opens, are details to confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

One more gap belongs in this section because it is a fact about the history itself: the newspaper has never printed a category roster for this poll beyond its one weekly player honour, and no per-reader vote rule or eligibility list appears on the ballot page either.

How a supporter votes in the Savannah Morning News football poll today

Voting here takes three plain actions. A supporter opens the current week's ballot at the poll.fm address the Savannah Morning News publishes, scans the nominated players paired with their Savannah-area schools, marks the selection beside one name, and submits. The Crowdsignal page logs that choice for the week and shows the running result, which is how the confirmed 2024 ballots displayed standings such as a player holding a 63 percent share mid-poll.

Because the series runs weekly from August through November, voting is a habit rather than a single event. Each new week brings a fresh ballot with a fresh roster of nominees, and the address a reader uses stays the same while the content turns over. A supporter backing the same player across several weeks returns each week and votes again, following whatever rule the live page states, since the newspaper has published no per-reader limit for this poll.

The ballot page describes no account requirement, no payment step and no nomination form for readers. Nominees are chosen ahead of each ballot, and the reader's job is only to choose among them. If a future week adds a verification step or changes the submission flow, that change will show on the poll.fm page itself, which is the one place the newspaper publishes the current mechanic.

This ballot beside its Georgia neighbours: who else runs a player of the week vote

Georgia already hosts a crowded field of public-vote football programmes, and this page sits among six sibling ballots in the same market. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution runs an honour for girls flag football coaches tied to the Falcons, putting a coach to the public vote each week. BLITZ Sports runs its own Georgia Football Player of the Week, and Fox 5 Atlanta puts a team honour to the public through its High 5 Sports Team of the Week. Statewide ballots cover other sports too, including the Georgia Baseball Player of the Week and the Georgia Boys Basketball Player of the Week, plus a dedicated Georgia Football Defensive Player of the Week.

Against that field, the Savannah Morning News poll differs on three axes. Its organizer is a city newspaper rather than a broadcaster or a sports network, so its reach is the Savannah readership. Its ballot is a single offensive-flavoured player honour rather than a defensive or team award. And its host is Crowdsignal at poll.fm, a plain poll tool, where some siblings run on their publishers' own contest platforms.

For a reader comparing options, the practical difference is whose support counts where. A vote cast for a Savannah-area player belongs on this newspaper's ballot, not on the statewide ones, and each sibling programme answers to its own organizer with its own rules. Readers following several Georgia honours can compare the BLITZ Sports player ballot, the Fox 5 team ballot and the AJC flag football coach ballot on their own pages.

Strengthening support for a nominee in the Savannah reader poll

Support in this poll is built the way newspaper reader polls always reward: by turning a real fan base into real votes. The mechanic is a plain selection on the Crowdsignal ballot, so the work is sharing the current week's poll.fm link with teammates, the school community and Savannah-area fans, and inviting every one of them to vote for the nominee. Because the series runs weekly from August through November, a school that organises early in the season keeps its push alive across many ballots rather than one.

The organizer's own rules are the boundary. The Savannah Morning News has not published a per-reader vote rule or an eligibility list on its ballot, so a supporter planning repeat voting or a coordinated push should read the live ballot's wording first and stay inside it. A push that depends on real, local supporters is the shape this poll is built to measure. For wider tactics suited to public-vote ballots of this kind, see how to get more votes online, and for the rules question see the legality guide.