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
Sam Houston left, UNLV 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 | Sam Houston result | Sam Houston positive share | Sam Houston negative share | UNLV result | UNLV positive share | UNLV negative share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | L L | 57.7% | 23.9% | W W | 65.6% | 22.8% |
| 2025-08-30 | – | 55.6% | 30.3% | – | 64.6% | 12.5% |
| 2025-09-06 | L | 61% | 19.1% | W | 80.3% | 10.9% |
| 2025-09-13 | – | 67.6% | 22.1% | – | 86.4% | 3.4% |
| 2025-09-20 | L | 45.3% | 31.6% | W | 79% | 12.6% |
| 2025-09-27 | L | 37.3% | 51.8% | – | 77.5% | 8.5% |
| 2025-10-04 | L | 42.3% | 39.1% | W | 78.3% | 8.1% |
| 2025-10-11 | L | 39.8% | 45.3% | W | 76.5% | 14.5% |
| 2025-10-18 | – | 59.1% | 27.3% | L | 36.8% | 51.8% |
| 2025-10-25 | L | 71.4% | 22.1% | – | 71.2% | 13.5% |
| 2025-11-01 | – | 37.6% | 51.5% | L | 30.6% | 59% |
| 2025-11-08 | W | 84.8% | 6.3% | W | 74.3% | 18.1% |
| 2025-11-15 | W | 84.6% | 4.7% | W W | 74.5% | 16.5% |
| 2025-11-22 | L | 63.4% | 22.6% | – | 82.8% | 7.7% |
| 2025-11-29 | L | 73.4% | 15.7% | W L | 71.8% | 17.5% |
| 2025-12-06 | – | 93.3% | 0% | – | 43.1% | 45.6% |
| 2025-12-13 | – | 33.3% | 0% | – | 55.5% | 28.8% |
| 2025-12-20 | – | 100% | 0% | L | 47.2% | 44.5% |
| 2025-12-27 | – | 40% | 20% | – | 67.6% | 27% |
| 2026-01-03 | – | – | – | – | 63.7% | 23.7% |
| 2026-01-10 | – | 95.8% | 1.4% | – | 92.5% | 4.4% |
| 2026-01-17 | – | – | – | – | 85.3% | 6.4% |
“Can’t even get any Sam Houston branding on the field? This is super disappointing”
“My first trip to Shell Energy Stadium. Not overly impressed. Be glad to be back at Bowers.”
“Might want to give the defense a new look. Giving up more yards in 1 game then we did in 4 last year against a D3 team isn't a good look”
“M Russell OKeefe I agree. It was more a comment on the D Coordinator.”
Fingerprint duel
Each fanbase's national percentile on the seven comment-topic groups, overlaid.
- Sam Houston Harm: low volume, not ranked
- Sam Houston Identity-Based Abuse: low volume, not ranked
- Sam Houston Explicit Language: 27th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Sam Houston College Sports: 93rd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Sam Houston Off-Field Storylines: 98th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Sam Houston Sports Betting: low volume, not ranked
- Sam Houston Team & Front Office: 64th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- UNLV Harm: 29th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- UNLV Identity-Based Abuse: low volume, not ranked
- UNLV Explicit Language: 69th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- UNLV College Sports: 81st percentile of ranked FBS teams
- UNLV Off-Field Storylines: 18th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- UNLV Sports Betting: 92nd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- UNLV Team & Front Office: 46th 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. Sam Houston's positive share was higher in 9 of 20 shared weeks, UNLV's in 11.
| Week of | SHSU | UNLV | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | 57.7% | 65.6% | 401 |
| 2025-08-30 | 55.6% | 64.6% | 238 |
| 2025-09-06 | 61% | 80.3% | 273 |
| 2025-09-13 | 67.6% | 86.4% | 127 |
| 2025-09-20 | 45.3% | 79% | 452 |
| 2025-09-27 | 37.3% | 77.5% | 239 |
| 2025-10-04 | 42.3% | 78.3% | 511 |
| 2025-10-11 | 39.8% | 76.5% | 658 |
| 2025-10-18 | 59.1% | 36.8% | 557 |
| 2025-10-25 | 71.4% | 71.2% | 129 |
| 2025-11-01 | 37.6% | 30.6% | 482 |
| 2025-11-08 | 84.8% | 74.3% | 381 |
| 2025-11-15 | 84.6% | 74.5% | 482 |
| 2025-11-22 | 63.4% | 82.8% | 483 |
| 2025-11-29 | 73.4% | 71.8% | 1,521 |
| 2025-12-06 | 93.3% | 43.1% | 656 |
| 2025-12-13 | 33.3% | 55.5% | 149 |
| 2025-12-20 | 100% | 47.2% | 363 |
| 2025-12-27 | 40% | 67.6% | 42 |
| 2026-01-03 | 0% | 63.7% | 215 |
| 2026-01-10 | 95.8% | 92.5% | 230 |
| 2026-01-17 | 0% | 85.3% | 109 |