2025–26 season · all 138 FBS fanbases · classified by Sence
The most toxic MAC 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.
The same measure runs as a season superlative: Most Toxic.
Identity-based abuse, tag by tagCombined harm & abuseRaceGenderLGBTQIA+AgeDisabilityPhysical Appearance
Rank
Team
Comments
Harm & abuse / 1k
1
Toledo
Rockets · MAC · 8–5
4,072
23.1
2
Central Michigan
Chippewas · MAC · 7–6
3,899
14.1
3
Ohio
Bobcats · MAC · 9–4
5,814
13.4
4
Bowling Green
Falcons · MAC · 4–8
3,685
12.8
5
Western Michigan
Broncos · MAC · 10–4
4,607
9.1
Below volume threshold: too few comments to rank on Harm & identity-based abuse per 1,000
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UMass
Minutemen · MAC · 0–12
1,455
9.6
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Miami (Ohio)
RedHawks · MAC · 7–7
1,085
13.8
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Northern Illinois
Huskies · MAC · 3–9
1,082
12
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Akron
Zips · MAC · 5–7
1,038
13.5
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Ball State
Cardinals · MAC · 4–8
818
20.8
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Kent State
Golden Flashes · MAC · 5–7
708
2.8
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Buffalo
Bulls · MAC · 5–7
341
23.5
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Eastern Michigan
Eagles · MAC · 4–8
67
29.9
Harm & identity-based abuse 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.