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
Rice left, South Florida 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 | Rice result | Rice positive share | Rice negative share | South Florida result | South Florida positive share | South Florida negative share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | – | 91.4% | 5.2% | W | 67.6% | 20.8% |
| 2025-08-30 | W | 77.4% | 10% | – | 71.4% | 17.1% |
| 2025-09-06 | L | 70.3% | 11% | W | 74% | 16.7% |
| 2025-09-13 | W W | 91.6% | 3.4% | L | 62.5% | 27.7% |
| 2025-09-20 | – | 87.8% | 6.1% | W | 78.1% | 12.9% |
| 2025-09-27 | L | 84% | 1.3% | W | 54.6% | 7.1% |
| 2025-10-04 | L | 90.8% | 3.9% | W | 77% | 14.1% |
| 2025-10-11 | L | 87.2% | 10.3% | – | 77% | 13.7% |
| 2025-10-18 | – | 100% | 0% | W | 81.1% | 9.1% |
| 2025-10-25 | W L | 91% | 5% | L | 44.7% | 47.4% |
| 2025-11-01 | – | 90% | 10% | W | 74.8% | 14.6% |
| 2025-11-08 | W | 100% | 0% | – | 79.5% | 10.8% |
| 2025-11-15 | – | 91.3% | 4.3% | L | 38.1% | 52.9% |
| 2025-11-22 | L | 97.4% | 0% | W | 60.8% | 24.2% |
| 2025-11-29 | L | 94% | 4% | W | 58.6% | 28.2% |
| 2025-12-06 | – | 83.3% | 4.2% | – | 40.5% | 43.8% |
| 2025-12-13 | – | 85.7% | 0% | L | 41.7% | 47.4% |
| 2025-12-20 | – | – | – | – | 63.5% | 28.1% |
| 2025-12-27 | L | 78.5% | 14.1% | – | 36.2% | 46.6% |
| 2026-01-03 | – | 77.1% | 11.4% | – | 49.3% | 34.3% |
| 2026-01-10 | – | 97.1% | 2.9% | – | 59.2% | 10.2% |
| 2026-01-17 | – | 85% | 0% | – | 59.6% | 34.6% |
“Through thick and thin and Lord knows we've had a heepin helpin of the latter, there is no better fall place to be then Rice Stadium with the Owls and The DOB, the Depleted Owl Band”
“Let's GOOOO Owl's 🦉@ Larry DeBose lV 💪🏾🙏🏾💙🤍”
“Need to change the slogan with the coach abandoning the program.”
“THESE ARE NOT OUR COLORS!! We are NOT Fla Tech (I mean You Can't Finish, UCF).”
Fingerprint duel
Each fanbase's national percentile on the seven comment-topic groups, overlaid.
- Rice Harm: low volume, not ranked
- Rice Identity-Based Abuse: low volume, not ranked
- Rice Explicit Language: low volume, not ranked
- Rice College Sports: low volume, not ranked
- Rice Off-Field Storylines: low volume, not ranked
- Rice Sports Betting: low volume, not ranked
- Rice Team & Front Office: low volume, not ranked
- South Florida Harm: 61st percentile of ranked FBS teams
- South Florida Identity-Based Abuse: 40th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- South Florida Explicit Language: 72nd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- South Florida College Sports: 65th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- South Florida Off-Field Storylines: 23rd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- South Florida Sports Betting: 11th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- South Florida Team & Front Office: 89th 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. Rice's positive share was higher in 20 of 21 shared weeks, South Florida's in 1.
| Week of | RICE | USF | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | 91.4% | 67.6% | 770 |
| 2025-08-30 | 77.4% | 71.4% | 552 |
| 2025-09-06 | 70.3% | 74% | 3,134 |
| 2025-09-13 | 91.6% | 62.5% | 1,009 |
| 2025-09-20 | 87.8% | 78.1% | 484 |
| 2025-09-27 | 84% | 54.6% | 414 |
| 2025-10-04 | 90.8% | 77% | 550 |
| 2025-10-11 | 87.2% | 77% | 812 |
| 2025-10-18 | 100% | 81.1% | 544 |
| 2025-10-25 | 91% | 44.7% | 471 |
| 2025-11-01 | 90% | 74.8% | 493 |
| 2025-11-08 | 100% | 79.5% | 504 |
| 2025-11-15 | 91.3% | 38.1% | 584 |
| 2025-11-22 | 97.4% | 60.8% | 473 |
| 2025-11-29 | 94% | 58.6% | 2,742 |
| 2025-12-06 | 83.3% | 40.5% | 2,915 |
| 2025-12-13 | 85.7% | 41.7% | 594 |
| 2025-12-20 | 0% | 63.5% | 96 |
| 2025-12-27 | 78.5% | 36.2% | 207 |
| 2026-01-03 | 77.1% | 49.3% | 402 |
| 2026-01-10 | 97.1% | 59.2% | 83 |
| 2026-01-17 | 85% | 59.6% | 72 |