Jersey Sports Zone JSZ Touchdown Run of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Jersey Sports Zone Touchdown Run of the Year?

Jersey Sports Zone (JSZ) presents the Touchdown Run of the Year as a seasonal fan award for New Jersey high school football. The outlet covers the sport week by week across the state, and each winter it hands part of that story to the audience: a poll that asks a single question about the run of the year. The 2025 ballot carried the headline "Who is your vote for JSZ's 2025 Touchdown Run of the Year." Readers choose among the nominated runs and the accumulated tally settles the honoree.

A single award rather than a directory

The shape of the ballot separates it from the reader's-choice and best-of programmes that share its state. Those surveys span a wide range of local categories, while this poll concentrates on a play made on the field and lets football followers settle it. Crowdsignal supplies the polling software; the Touchdown Run of the Year ballot sits at poll.fm/16365109, so the voting experience matches what poll.fm users see anywhere: a question, a list of options and a submit control.

When does the Touchdown Run of the Year voting happen?

Both confirmed editions belong to December. The 2024 ballot and the 2025 ballot each ran in that month, and the 2025 page now carries the marker "Poll Closed," meaning voting ended and the results stand. JSZ promoted the closing stretch with the line "Cast your vote NOW through Tuesday at 3:00 pm," which fixes a weekday and an hour for the deadline without printing a calendar date.

That gap matters for planning. The organizer has published no opening or closing dates for either edition, and nothing announces a 2026 return yet, even though the annual pattern points to another December window.

JSZ also runs this poll as a stand-alone question rather than part of a printed category roster; whatever else its poll series includes is left off the page, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Stages of an edition

How does a supporter vote in the Touchdown Run of the Year poll?

Voting happens directly on the Crowdsignal page at poll.fm/16365109 whenever an edition is live. A supporter scans the list of nominated runs, selects the preferred choice and submits. Entries are presented by the run being honored together with the school or town behind it, which is why community identity drives the outcome.

Repeat support is allowed on a clock. The polls hub Jersey Sports Zone maintains spells the cadence out itself: returning voters are welcome, at a rate of "(once per hour)." That wording turns the window into a rhythm, since a supporter who feels strongly about a nominated run can come back hourly until the deadline passes.

The same page draws a hard line on automation. In JSZ's words, "we have software that detects bots and then disqualifies those votes." Manual, human-paced voting is the only method the organizer endorses.

Because the 2025 page is marked Poll Closed, a visitor arriving today sees the standings rather than a live form. When the next edition arrives, a fresh ballot replaces it at the poll.fm address.

How does this poll compare with other New Jersey fan ballots?

New Jersey readers meet this poll alongside a set of established best-of ballots. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice programme gathers public picks across that Shore paper's coverage area. Bergen County households settle their favorites through the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards. A statewide Best of New Jersey survey runs beside them, along with the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists ranking and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice poll. Each of those honours businesses, services or local institutions; only the JSZ ballot honors a moment of play on a football field.

That difference shapes who votes. A business ballot draws the customers of the companies named; the Touchdown Run of the Year draws student sections, parents, alumni and teammates rallied around a nominated run. Town loyalties drive the tally, which showed in 2025 when the Ridgefield Park nomination pulled well clear of the field.

Communities on the 2025 ballot

These are the entries visible on the 2025 ballot; further nominees may have sat below them on the page. For anyone weighing where a campaign belongs, the practical reading is that this electorate runs on school loyalty rather than consumer habit, so outreach should follow the team and its community.

How can supporters grow a vote count inside the rules?

Support grows here through organization, not volume tricks. Because the rulebook permits a return every hour, a disciplined base of team parents, classmates and alumni that rotates reminders across the whole window will outperform a single-day push. Sharing the poll.fm address directly in group chats and school forums keeps the path to the ballot short.

Automation cuts the other way. JSZ disqualifies votes its software flags as bot traffic, so scripts and auto-voters cost more than they deliver. Campaigns that want extra reach can study how to get more votes online, and readers weighing purchased support can read the award votes reference before deciding anything.