Whose comment section wins?
Pick any two fanbases and compare what their comment sections say, stat for stat.
Who is happier
Fan Score counts positive comments per 1,000, so a loud fanbase cannot buy its way up the board. Positive share tells the same story as a percentage of everything said.
Fan Score
Positive comments per 1,000 (higher wins)
Positive comments per 1,000 (higher wins)
Positive share
Share of all comments that are positive
Share of all comments that are positive
Who is harsher
Negativity, toxicity and explicit language, every one of them per 1,000 comments so the two sides stay comparable whatever their volume.
Negativity
Negative comments per 1,000 (lower wins)
Negative comments per 1,000 (lower wins)
Toxicity
Harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000 (lower wins)
Harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000 (lower wins)
Explicit language
Explicit-language comments per 1,000 (lower wins)
Explicit-language comments per 1,000 (lower wins)
Identity-based abuse, tag by tag
Tag applications per 1,000 comments
Arkansas left, Memphis right. Tag applications per 1,000 comments, on the same scale across every row. Reported as rates only: this block never picks a winner.
What they talk about
Three topic groups where neither direction is better, just louder. These rows describe a comment section instead of scoring it.
Betting talk
Sports-betting comments per 1,000
Sports-betting comments per 1,000
Team & front office talk
Team and front-office comments per 1,000: coaching, the athletic department, and gameday
Team and front-office comments per 1,000: coaching, the athletic department, and gameday
NIL & portal talk
NIL and Transfer Portal tag applications per 1,000, which may overlap
NIL and Transfer Portal tag applications per 1,000, which may overlap
Week by week, side by side
The same season read twice: weekly mood for both comment sections, the weeks the two teams actually met, and where each fanbase lands nationally on the seven topic groups.
Rivalry pulse
| Week of | Arkansas result | Arkansas positive share | Arkansas negative share | Memphis result | Memphis positive share | Memphis negative share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | – | 65.5% | 15.2% | – | 73.5% | 12.6% |
| 2025-08-30 | W | 56.8% | 30.9% | W | 67.9% | 14% |
| 2025-09-06 | W | 45.4% | 37% | W | 73.2% | 15.7% |
| 2025-09-13 | L | 30.3% | 58.5% | W | 69% | 16% |
| 2025-09-20 | L | 14.7% | 77.5% | W | 69.3% | 20.7% |
| 2025-09-27 | L | 19.8% | 71.7% | W | 73.4% | 12.6% |
| 2025-10-04 | – | 47% | 37.8% | W | 84.6% | 7.7% |
| 2025-10-11 | L | 46.4% | 42% | – | 57% | 22.1% |
| 2025-10-18 | L | 38.9% | 45.3% | L | 62.3% | 26.2% |
| 2025-10-25 | L | 23.3% | 66.5% | W W | 78.7% | 11.5% |
| 2025-11-01 | L | 16.9% | 73.8% | L | 70.6% | 14.7% |
| 2025-11-08 | – | 35.9% | 49.7% | – | 56.7% | 32.8% |
| 2025-11-15 | L | 21% | 67.3% | L | 55.9% | 32.3% |
| 2025-11-22 | L | 33% | 55.3% | L | 72% | 16.9% |
| 2025-11-29 | L | 36.8% | 51.5% | – | 41.7% | 40.1% |
| 2025-12-06 | – | 36.3% | 47% | – | 72.8% | 18.2% |
| 2025-12-13 | – | 34.9% | 51% | L | 67.2% | 22.5% |
| 2025-12-20 | – | 47.6% | 36.2% | – | 72.5% | 16.5% |
| 2025-12-27 | – | 56.4% | 33.7% | – | 68.8% | 22.2% |
| 2026-01-03 | – | 53.4% | 30.2% | – | 62.4% | 27.5% |
| 2026-01-10 | – | 48.4% | 27.2% | – | 67.1% | 21.3% |
| 2026-01-17 | – | 38.4% | 42.3% | – | 90.6% | 4.2% |
“Dad and I will be there! Let’s Go Hogs!!!!”
“Hope their kicker has been practicing.”
“Just make sure swag and surf is playing at kickoff this time”
“When is Memphis going to build their own stadium?”
Fingerprint duel
Each fanbase's national percentile on the seven comment-topic groups, overlaid.
- Arkansas Harm: 86th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Arkansas Identity-Based Abuse: 91st percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Arkansas Explicit Language: 93rd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Arkansas College Sports: 94th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Arkansas Off-Field Storylines: 79th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Arkansas Sports Betting: 65th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Arkansas Team & Front Office: 94th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis Harm: 38th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis Identity-Based Abuse: 16th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis Explicit Language: 11th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis College Sports: 47th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis Off-Field Storylines: 15th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis Sports Betting: 33rd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Memphis Team & Front Office: 61st percentile of ranked FBS teams
The season, felt twice
Weekly positive share for both comment sections on one axis; hover shows the week's combined comment volume. Arkansas's positive share was higher in 0 of 22 shared weeks, Memphis's in 22.
| Week of | ARK | MEM | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | 65.5% | 73.5% | 578 |
| 2025-08-30 | 56.8% | 67.9% | 1,961 |
| 2025-09-06 | 45.4% | 73.2% | 2,229 |
| 2025-09-13 | 30.3% | 69% | 1,679 |
| 2025-09-20 | 14.7% | 69.3% | 5,897 |
| 2025-09-27 | 19.8% | 73.4% | 3,875 |
| 2025-10-04 | 47% | 84.6% | 932 |
| 2025-10-11 | 46.4% | 57% | 1,759 |
| 2025-10-18 | 38.9% | 62.3% | 2,658 |
| 2025-10-25 | 23.3% | 78.7% | 3,362 |
| 2025-11-01 | 16.9% | 70.6% | 2,550 |
| 2025-11-08 | 35.9% | 56.7% | 776 |
| 2025-11-15 | 21% | 55.9% | 2,276 |
| 2025-11-22 | 33% | 72% | 2,079 |
| 2025-11-29 | 36.8% | 41.7% | 14,600 |
| 2025-12-06 | 36.3% | 72.8% | 3,406 |
| 2025-12-13 | 34.9% | 67.2% | 2,131 |
| 2025-12-20 | 47.6% | 72.5% | 508 |
| 2025-12-27 | 56.4% | 68.8% | 277 |
| 2026-01-03 | 53.4% | 62.4% | 986 |
| 2026-01-10 | 48.4% | 67.1% | 1,114 |
| 2026-01-17 | 38.4% | 90.6% | 700 |