The most toxic Big Ten 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.
Michigan is the most toxic Big Ten fanbase, at 76.4 harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000 comments, against a median of 51.5 across the 17 of 18 Big Ten fanbases that clear the volume floor. Michigan State follows at 63.3 and Ohio State at 62.4.
The same measure runs as a season superlative: Most Toxic.
Harm & identity-based abuse 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.