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
Utah State left, Washington State 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 | Utah State result | Utah State positive share | Utah State negative share | Washington State result | Washington State positive share | Washington State negative share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | – | 94% | 1.2% | – | 77.5% | 10.9% |
| 2025-08-30 | W | 91.7% | 3.3% | W | 48.1% | 35% |
| 2025-09-06 | L | 87.9% | 5.6% | W | 74.9% | 15.7% |
| 2025-09-13 | W | 84.8% | 4.5% | L | 37.2% | 49.7% |
| 2025-09-20 | W | 79.1% | 15.1% | L | 46.3% | 42.7% |
| 2025-09-27 | L | 82.7% | 3.8% | W | 78.3% | 16.6% |
| 2025-10-04 | – | 92.6% | 2.1% | – | 70% | 18.8% |
| 2025-10-11 | L W | 71.2% | 24.2% | L | 81% | 15.1% |
| 2025-10-18 | – | 92% | 6.2% | L | 59.5% | 33.7% |
| 2025-10-25 | L | 66.1% | 25.2% | W | 81.6% | 10.7% |
| 2025-11-01 | – | 83% | 5.7% | L | 54.3% | 42% |
| 2025-11-08 | W | 90% | 4.7% | – | 56.5% | 21.7% |
| 2025-11-15 | L | 75.7% | 13.9% | W | 61.8% | 28.3% |
| 2025-11-22 | W L | 89.3% | 5.4% | L | 34% | 48.5% |
| 2025-11-29 | – | 45% | 44.6% | W | 81.8% | 10.9% |
| 2025-12-06 | – | 70.4% | 22.2% | – | 45.8% | 39.2% |
| 2025-12-13 | – | 88.2% | 3.9% | – | 71.3% | 17.8% |
| 2025-12-20 | L | 53.8% | 37.8% | W | 87.6% | 7.3% |
| 2025-12-27 | – | 83.3% | 16.7% | – | 69.3% | 18.2% |
| 2026-01-03 | – | 74.2% | 18.9% | – | 83.9% | 8.4% |
| 2026-01-10 | – | 85.7% | 14.3% | – | 57% | 32.9% |
| 2026-01-17 | – | – | – | – | 79.2% | 8.3% |
“Glad you guys visited our capitol. Welcome to Boise and good luck tomorrow. We visited the capitol after the ballet today and enjoyed it again.”
“Isn't it at 12:00 Mountain time? The graphic days Eastern”
“Great work, Coach! We can't wait to see what you'll do! Go Cougs! ❤️🩶”
“Run the damn ball. Near own end zone and still slinging it”
Fingerprint duel
Each fanbase's national percentile on the seven comment-topic groups, overlaid.
- Utah State Harm: 17th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Utah State Identity-Based Abuse: low volume, not ranked
- Utah State Explicit Language: low volume, not ranked
- Utah State College Sports: low volume, not ranked
- Utah State Off-Field Storylines: 36th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Utah State Sports Betting: low volume, not ranked
- Utah State Team & Front Office: 21st percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Washington State Harm: 65th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Washington State Identity-Based Abuse: 33rd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Washington State Explicit Language: 61st percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Washington State College Sports: 92nd percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Washington State Off-Field Storylines: 29th percentile of ranked FBS teams
- Washington State Sports Betting: low volume, not ranked
- Washington State Team & Front Office: 78th 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. Utah State's positive share was higher in 16 of 21 shared weeks, Washington State's in 5.
| Week of | USU | WSU | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | 94% | 77.5% | 212 |
| 2025-08-30 | 91.7% | 48.1% | 502 |
| 2025-09-06 | 87.9% | 74.9% | 374 |
| 2025-09-13 | 84.8% | 37.2% | 651 |
| 2025-09-20 | 79.1% | 46.3% | 807 |
| 2025-09-27 | 82.7% | 78.3% | 227 |
| 2025-10-04 | 92.6% | 70% | 354 |
| 2025-10-11 | 71.2% | 81% | 530 |
| 2025-10-18 | 92% | 59.5% | 276 |
| 2025-10-25 | 66.1% | 81.6% | 218 |
| 2025-11-01 | 83% | 54.3% | 134 |
| 2025-11-08 | 90% | 56.5% | 193 |
| 2025-11-15 | 75.7% | 61.8% | 348 |
| 2025-11-22 | 89.3% | 34% | 770 |
| 2025-11-29 | 45% | 81.8% | 543 |
| 2025-12-06 | 70.4% | 45.8% | 526 |
| 2025-12-13 | 88.2% | 71.3% | 988 |
| 2025-12-20 | 53.8% | 87.6% | 527 |
| 2025-12-27 | 83.3% | 69.3% | 309 |
| 2026-01-03 | 74.2% | 83.9% | 442 |
| 2026-01-10 | 85.7% | 57% | 86 |
| 2026-01-17 | 0% | 79.2% | 48 |