Even though we should never read the comments (really, don’t do it), the Grammarly staff took one for the team and determined this new Top 25. However, off the field, Alabama and Auburn fans go head-to-head in another competition-the Iron Bowl of grammar and spelling. The program then re-ranked the AP Top 25 teams based on the quality of the fans’ comments, according to the story.
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A grammar website calculated the average number of typos among the SB Nation college blogs.
It ran all of the comments through its automated proofreader and had a team of humans on hand to verify and tally the errors.
Once again, Grammarly is breaking down the grammar used by fans on social media.
Grammarly counted misspellings, wrong and missing punctuations, misused or missing words and subject-verb disagreement. And fans of engineering mecca Georgia Tech made the fifth-most mistakes, a whopping 5.39 for every 100 words.
Florida State may be ranked No. 10 in the AP Top 25 college football poll, but when it comes to using proper grammar, Seminole fans rank near the bottom of ranked schools.
It’s a well known and widely accepted fact that the idiocy of a college football team’s fanbase can be directly determined by the number of grammatical errors they make while typing on the internet.
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However, Grammarly ignored the use of common slang words, deeming the Alabama war cries of “Roll Tide” just as grammatically sound as “War Eagle”.
