Head to head
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Pick any two fanbases and compare what their comment sections say, stat for stat.
Sence classified 15,179 comments on Illinois’s page across the 2025–26 season: 53.3% of them positive, a Fan Score of 532.6 positive comments per 1,000 (87th of 120 ranked fanbases), and 32.9 harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000. Pick a second fanbase to read every one of those numbers against another comment section.
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NorthwesternThe Land of Lincoln Trophy decides which Illinois school owns the state
PurdueA 9–4 Illinois and a 2–10 Purdue still play for the Purdue Cannon
WisconsinBret Bielema took Wisconsin to three straight Rose Bowls before landing at Illinois
MissouriBorder neighbors who staged the Arch Rivalry in St. Louis and let it lapse
