Will Discover Card’s College Football Poll Tell the Results of the 2012 Presidential Election?

Today is Sunday in America, which means one thing…football. Americans love their hard-hitting, emotionally charged football teams. Each week millions of fans gather in parking lots to tailgate, unfortunately find the need to get a little too inebriated, and then celebrate their team playing to a victory. Frankly, we are not that much of a sports family, but everyone has their vices.

While Sundays are typically reserved for the NFL, Saturdays are usually dedicated to college fans all across the country. This season has several key championship games that are being sponsored by my good old Discover Cards. This years sponsored matches are the 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game and 2013 Discover Orange Bowl.

Discover Card (Facebook/Twitter) contacted us to help promote their new Discover Fan Loyalty Poll, wherein, over the course of 15 weeks they poll 800 college football fans on various topics ranging from their favorite teams to the foods they like to eat.

With the United States in prime Presidential Election season, they of course asked the question, which candidate would you like to sit next to at a Football game? Think these results will reflect the winner of the election?

The results are rather interesting, and college football fans appear to favor a defined majority on this issue. Over the course of the season, we will present the various poll results that Discover finds on various topics.

Politics aside, a healthy percentage of college football fans do agree on one thing: Alabama is the best team in the country. The Crimson Tide secured the top spot for the sixth week in a row at 42 percent. But the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have snuck into the top five in this week’s poll, knocking West Virginia down a spot. Following Alabama are:

· Alabama, 42 percent
· Oregon, 17 percent
· Florida, 5 percent
· South Carolina, 4 percent
· West Virginia, 4 percent
· Ohio State, 4 percent
· Kansas State, 2 percent
· Some other team, 10 percent
· Not sure, 8 percent

I do not quite understand how 8% of those polled can be unsure which college they attend for voting purposes, but than again we all have moments of our college lives that we may not completely recall. I guess that also gets amplified when you get together football fans and unlimited alcohol.

When asked which of the above teams’ would win the national championship game this year, Alabama came out on top at 44 percent.

So there you have it, we at InACents broke the cardinal rule of friendships; we talked about Politics AND Football in the same post with our friends. The combination of topics typically can never lead to positive results, but our readers are more civilized and open-minded to everyone’s opinion. Our family pretty much stays away from conversations on either topic in our everyday lives, but in the spirit of football, we can all celebrate together, even if that means from the comfy of our couches. Stay warm my friends.

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