2025–26 season · all 138 FBS fanbases · classified by Sence
The MAC fanbases with the most college sports talk
FBS fanbases ranked by college sports talk per 1,000 comments: NIL, the transfer portal, recruiting, and realignment.
Rank
Team
Comments
College sports / 1k
1
Toledo
Rockets · MAC · 8–5
4,072
17.2
2
Ohio
Bobcats · MAC · 9–4
5,814
14.4
3
Bowling Green
Falcons · MAC · 4–8
3,685
13.8
4
Western Michigan
Broncos · MAC · 10–4
4,607
12.2
5
Central Michigan
Chippewas · MAC · 7–6
3,899
11.5
Below volume threshold: too few comments to rank on College sports talk per 1,000
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UMass
Minutemen · MAC · 0–12
1,455
45.4
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Miami (Ohio)
RedHawks · MAC · 7–7
1,085
8.3
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Northern Illinois
Huskies · MAC · 3–9
1,082
53.6
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Akron
Zips · MAC · 5–7
1,038
27.9
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Ball State
Cardinals · MAC · 4–8
818
7.3
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Kent State
Golden Flashes · MAC · 5–7
708
12.7
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Buffalo
Bulls · MAC · 5–7
341
17.6
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Eastern Michigan
Eagles · MAC · 4–8
67
29.9
College sports talk per 1,000 ranks 5 of 13 MAC fanbases with enough classified comments to rate. Fan Score is positive comments per 1,000 analyzed. Toxicity counts harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000; every other rate counts that tag group's comments per 1,000, using Sence's system-tag taxonomy.