The most explicit Big Ten fanbases
FBS fanbases ranked by explicit language per 1,000 comments across the 2025–26 season: swearing, cursing and profanity, plus explicit acronyms, explicit emoji and violent language.
Michigan is the most explicit Big Ten fanbase, at 52.2 explicit-language comments per 1,000, against a median of 34 across the 17 of 18 Big Ten fanbases that clear the volume floor. Oregon follows at 50.4 and Ohio State at 49.
The same measure runs as a season superlative: Watch Your Profanity.
Explicit language per 1,000 ranks 17 of 18 Big Ten 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.