Savannah Morning News Football Player of the Year Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Savannah Morning News player of the year poll is and who runs it

This program is the Savannah Morning News's public vote naming a football player of the year among Savannah area high school athletes. It is run by the Savannah Morning News, the daily newspaper based in Savannah, Georgia, whose online home is savannahnow.com. Crowdsignal, the polling service behind the poll.fm domain, carries the ballot at the address https://poll.fm/14910428.

The vote asks readers to pick a football player of the year from a slate of nominees drawn from Savannah area programs. The 2025 ballot carried nominees connected with New Hampstead, Effingham County, Calvary Day, Savannah Christian, Richmond Hill, Jenkins and Bethesda Academy, a spread that reaches from the city into Effingham County and across the coastal Georgia football scene. Because a newspaper publishes the poll, the audience is its own readership: families, students and boosters who follow Savannah area football week to week.

The table below sets out this program's fixed details.

Everything a supporter needs to take part lives on that single ballot page, which is what makes this program easy to describe and easy to enter.

Dated facts for the Savannah Morning News football poll

The poll's confirmed runs fall in 2022 and 2025. The 2025 ballot ran in January, with both the opening and the closing of that vote inside the month. The ballot now shows as closed, and its final tally remains visible: the leading nominee finished at 69 percent, the runner up at 7 percent, and the next name on the slate at 3 percent.

Several details are not printed anywhere the newspaper publishes for this poll. No edition carries printed open or close dates, and no round schedule appears either; the category structure apart from the player of the year question itself, any per supporter vote limit and the eligibility text are also unprinted, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

What these dates establish is the shape of the cycle. A January slot places the vote after the Georgia high school football season has ended, when year end honors are traditionally settled, and the gap between the 2022 and 2025 runs shows the poll returning across multiple seasons rather than appearing a single time. A 2026 cycle is the next expected run, though the newspaper has not printed a 2026 schedule, so the savannahnow.com site and the poll.fm page are the places a new ballot would surface.

How a supporter votes in the Savannah Morning News poll today

Supporting a nominee is a short sequence on the Crowdsignal ballot for the Savannah Morning News poll. A supporter opens https://poll.fm/14910428, reads the list of player of the year nominees, each shown with his school, selects the chosen name and submits the choice. The 2025 edition of that ballot has closed, so today it displays the final tally rather than accepting new selections.

When the newspaper opens the next edition, the same steps apply on a fresh ballot; whether the next vote appears at the same poll.fm address or a new address is not printed. The ballot page carries no instructions about account requirements, so whether signing in is needed is unstated. No daily return rule is printed either, so anyone hoping to select a nominee twice has no published guidance to follow.

Because the nominees are high school players, the practical base of support is each player's school community: classmates, teammates, families and the booster networks around the schools on the slate. That is why the poll travels the way it does, passed along group chats and team pages while the window is open, and why a January close date matters to anyone organizing a push, since the ballot does not stay open long past the season.

How this Savannah ballot sits beside its Georgia neighbours

The Savannah Morning News poll sits inside a wider Georgia set of public votes covered on this site. Six neighbours share the state and the sport vertical: the Falcons coach of the week award for girls flag football from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the BLITZ Sports weekly Georgia football honour, the Fox 5 Atlanta team of the week vote, the state baseball weekly, the boys basketball weekly and the defensive football weekly. Each has its own page: the Falcons girls flag football coaching honour, the BLITZ Sports Georgia football vote, the Fox 5 Atlanta team vote, the state baseball vote, the boys basketball vote and the defensive football vote.

What separates this ballot from those neighbours is scope and rhythm. It is a year end player of the year award from a single local newspaper in Savannah, not a weekly honour and not a statewide publisher's franchise. Its host is Crowdsignal at poll.fm, while several Georgia neighbours run their votes on their own publication sites. Its confirmed window falls in January, after the football season ends, whereas the weekly awards run through the season and reset every seven days.

Turning out support for a Savannah Morning News nominee

Support in this poll is a matter of turning out a school community to a single selection ballot. Because the Savannah Morning News keeps the mechanics plain on poll.fm, the dependable moves are the ordinary ones: share the ballot address directly with teammates, families and class groups, and time the push while the window is open in January. The newspaper prints no rules about outside help on the ballot page, so anything beyond plain sharing has no published footing to stand on. For a fuller walkthrough of legitimate promotion, see our votes guide, and for award style ballots specifically, the award votes page covers the category.