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
Mississippi State left, Southern Miss 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 | Mississippi State result | Mississippi State positive share | Mississippi State negative share | Southern Miss result | Southern Miss positive share | Southern Miss negative share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | – | 76% | 17.1% | – | 58% | 16.5% |
| 2025-08-30 | W | 66.3% | 23.4% | L | 65.9% | 22% |
| 2025-09-06 | W | 70.8% | 18.8% | W | 73% | 15.4% |
| 2025-09-13 | W | 64.1% | 19.1% | W | 81.7% | 9.7% |
| 2025-09-20 | W | 72.6% | 15.2% | L | 60.7% | 24% |
| 2025-09-27 | L | 65.5% | 24.9% | W | 83% | 6.7% |
| 2025-10-04 | L | 52.2% | 39.1% | W | 80% | 10.5% |
| 2025-10-11 | – | 80.1% | 10% | – | 84.8% | 10.9% |
| 2025-10-18 | L | 26.2% | 65.6% | W | 85% | 5.6% |
| 2025-10-25 | L | 22.5% | 69.5% | W | 89.3% | 5.6% |
| 2025-11-01 | W | 64.4% | 26.2% | – | 77.5% | 10.8% |
| 2025-11-08 | L | 50.1% | 40.2% | W | 79.8% | 9.2% |
| 2025-11-15 | L | 32.6% | 60.9% | L | 63.5% | 28.9% |
| 2025-11-22 | L | 52.8% | 31.9% | L | 64.1% | 27.1% |
| 2025-11-29 | – | 70.3% | 21.5% | L | 68.9% | 16.4% |
| 2025-12-06 | – | 67.3% | 18.6% | – | 63.2% | 22.7% |
| 2025-12-13 | – | 83.6% | 11.7% | – | 87.1% | 7.1% |
| 2025-12-20 | – | 90.2% | 4.3% | L | 75.1% | 19% |
| 2025-12-27 | L | 72.5% | 15.8% | – | 75.2% | 19% |
| 2026-01-03 | – | 43.4% | 47.4% | – | 83.3% | 4.2% |
| 2026-01-10 | – | 77.4% | 10.9% | – | 80% | 10% |
| 2026-01-17 | – | 84.4% | 11.1% | – | 65.5% | 3.4% |
“Let’s make some noise at least 5 times this season!”
“NCAA football yes...Miss State that will happen when we hire a real HC and staff.”
“Hire that man at Southern Miss”
“Coach O in the sip isn’t good for anyone”
Fingerprint duel
Each fanbase's national percentile on the seven comment-topic groups, overlaid.
- Mississippi State Harm: 69th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Mississippi State Identity-Based Abuse: 43rd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Mississippi State Explicit Language: 58th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Mississippi State College Sports: 26th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Mississippi State Off-Field Storylines: 49th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Mississippi State Sports Betting: 25th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Mississippi State Team & Front Office: 76th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Southern Miss Harm: 20th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Southern Miss Identity-Based Abuse: low volume, not ranked
- Southern Miss Explicit Language: 16th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Southern Miss College Sports: 70th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Southern Miss Off-Field Storylines: 6th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Southern Miss Sports Betting: low volume, not ranked
- Southern Miss Team & Front Office: 68th 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. Mississippi State's positive share was higher in 7 of 22 shared weeks, Southern Miss's in 15.
| Week of | MSST | USM | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | 76% | 58% | 945 |
| 2025-08-30 | 66.3% | 65.9% | 2,378 |
| 2025-09-06 | 70.8% | 73% | 4,258 |
| 2025-09-13 | 64.1% | 81.7% | 2,068 |
| 2025-09-20 | 72.6% | 60.7% | 2,049 |
| 2025-09-27 | 65.5% | 83% | 2,583 |
| 2025-10-04 | 52.2% | 80% | 2,005 |
| 2025-10-11 | 80.1% | 84.8% | 802 |
| 2025-10-18 | 26.2% | 85% | 2,927 |
| 2025-10-25 | 22.5% | 89.3% | 3,034 |
| 2025-11-01 | 64.4% | 77.5% | 2,958 |
| 2025-11-08 | 50.1% | 79.8% | 2,098 |
| 2025-11-15 | 32.6% | 63.5% | 1,832 |
| 2025-11-22 | 52.8% | 64.1% | 1,701 |
| 2025-11-29 | 70.3% | 68.9% | 1,119 |
| 2025-12-06 | 67.3% | 63.2% | 2,119 |
| 2025-12-13 | 83.6% | 87.1% | 444 |
| 2025-12-20 | 90.2% | 75.1% | 416 |
| 2025-12-27 | 72.5% | 75.2% | 979 |
| 2026-01-03 | 43.4% | 83.3% | 1,719 |
| 2026-01-10 | 77.4% | 80% | 299 |
| 2026-01-17 | 84.4% | 65.5% | 164 |