2025–26 season · all 138 FBS fanbases · classified by Sence

The most toxic ACC fanbases

FBS fanbases ranked by harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000 comments: threats, hate and slurs, measured the same way as everything else on this site.

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North Carolina is the most toxic ACC fanbase, at 94.6 harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000 comments, against a median of 34.3 across the 16 of 17 ACC fanbases that clear the volume floor. Virginia Tech follows at 58.3 and Syracuse at 57.9.

The same measure runs as a season superlative: Most Toxic.

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Identity-based abuse, tag by tagCombined harm & abuse Race Gender LGBTQIA+Age Disability Physical Appearance

Rank

Team

Comments

Harm & abuse / 1k

North Carolina

Tar Heels · ACC · 4–8

Seminoles · ACC · 5–7

Hurricanes · ACC · 13–3

Cardinals · ACC · 9–4

Blue Devils · ACC · 9–5

14,337

20.4

Georgia Tech

Yellow Jackets · ACC · 9–4

35,814

17.3

Virginia

Cavaliers · ACC · 11–3

14,086

12.4

Wake Forest

Demon Deacons · ACC · 9–4

4,755

11.4

Below volume threshold: too few comments to rank on Harm & identity-based abuse per 1,000

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California

Golden Bears · ACC · 7–6

534

37.5

Harm & identity-based abuse per 1,000 ranks 16 of 17 ACC 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.