The team America is rooting for in Super Bowl LVI according to Twitter is ...
The Cincinnati Bengals aren’t the favorites in Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup against the Rams, but according to Twitter, America is rooting for Joe Burrow to win the team’s first Lombardi Trophy.
BetOnline, a sports betting site, tracked tweets using geotagged keywords from fan hashtags used for each team in every state since Jan. 31. In order to count as a vote for the Rams or Bengals, the tweet had to contain a certain hashtag or hashtags. Hashtags such as #RamsHouse, #RamsNation and #GoRams were used to track votes for the Rams while #WhoDey, #RuleTheJungleand #RuleItAll were included for the Bengals.
The final score after nearly 200,000 tweets were tracked: Bengals-specific hashtags were used more than Rams hashtags in 33 states.
The Bengals dominated hashtags across most of middle America, South, Midwest, Northeast, parts of the Rocky Mountains and Washington state.
The Rams controlled most of the West, including Alaska and Hawaii, Montana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The Bengals won most of America’s interest on Twitter, but will Sunday produce a similar result on the field?
Super Bowl LVI kicks off at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at SoFi Stadium.
Temperatures could be 20 degrees above average, with no rain forecast, thanks to an unusually strong high-pressure system over California.
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