How the Sence Fan Index works

The comments behind this site come from the official Facebook pages of all 138 FBS football programs, covering the 2025–26 season from August 23, 2025 to January 19, 2026. Fan pages, subreddits, and burner accounts are out of scope; this is what fans say in each program’s own front yard.

“Classified by Sence” means each comment was read by Sence’s classification models, which assign exactly one sentiment label and any number of tags from the system taxonomy Sence runs for sports customers. The figures on this site are those labels, aggregated; every comment in the period is counted, with no sampling and no extrapolation.

Comments quoted on this site are reproduced verbatim, truncated for length where needed. Commenter names are screened out before anything is stored or displayed, and no comment is linked back to the person who wrote it.

Two things on the site are not comment data. Schedules and results come from the season schedule; the coordinates behind the map are the published location of the stadium each team played its home games in, taken from that venue’s Wikipedia article, on state boundaries from the US Census Bureau via us-atlas.

Rates on this site follow Sence’s Sence Score convention: comments matching a tag per 1,000 comments analyzed, to one decimal. Rates rather than raw counts, so a large fanbase can’t top a board on volume alone.

A tag group’s total counts distinct comments; a comment tagged both Parlay and Moneyline counts once toward Sports Betting. Subtag figures count tag applications, so the subtags under a group can add up to more than the group’s total. Wherever subtags are itemized, that caveat is restated.

Fan Score is positive comments per 1,000 analyzed. It measures the rate of positivity in a comment section, not quality, loyalty, or anything grander.

Not every team is ranked on every metric. Teams below 1,500 analyzed comments aren’t ranked on sentiment metrics; tag-group rankings require 2,000 comments and at least 25 comments in the group; subtag rankings require 2,000 comments and at least 15 applications of the subtag. A team below a floor is excluded from that board entirely (shown as “low volume,” never ranked last), and every rank states its cohort (“82nd of 133”), which is why cohort sizes vary from metric to metric. Week-over-week mood swings carry their own floor: the Biggest Win and Deepest Despair boards only count a swing when both weeks cleared 50 comments and the later one contained a game.

We report abuse rates because they’re the part of the comment section nobody screenshots. They are why moderation exists, and they’re measured the same way as everything else here: per 1,000 comments, no extrapolation.

Sence reads the comment sections no team of humans could keep up with: every comment, classified for sentiment, storylines, and abuse in real time, so the people running a page know exactly what their community is saying and can act on the worst of it before anyone else sees it. It built every number on this site, and it works the same way on any community. Including yours.