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Alabama's football team might be No. 1 in the Amway Coaches Poll based on its play, but when it comes to favorable Twitter mentions, the Tide takes a huge drop.

Alabama comes in at No. 19 when the coaches poll is reconfigured by the percentage of positive mentions on Twitter. Washington State received the highest percentage of favorable tweets at 56.38 to rank No. 1. The Cougars are No. 15 when the coaches vote.

The rankings were devised by Block Six Analytics (B6A), which is based in Chicago. According to Alex Cordover, Director of Data Science for B6A, "Overall, we analyzed 1 million tweets, which puts the margin of error for the percentages at a maximum of 0.5 percent."

But just because Alabama dropped in the favorability rankings does not necessarily mean Twitter hates the Tide. Alabama was in the middle in percentage of negative tweets at 14.17 percent. Its remaining 41.34 percent of Twitter mentions were neutral.

Notre Dame received the highest percentage of negative Twitter mentions at 22.80. The Irish rank third in the coaches poll but plummet to 22nd in the favorability ranking.

Texas received the lowest percentage of negative Twitter mentions at 8.43.

"Sentiment analysis is expanding its role in the world of sports," said Adam Robbins, B6A Senior Director of Sales. "Understanding how fans are interacting through social media is invaluable data for teams, leagues and brands."

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