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Mid-American · Joe Moorhead, year 5 (14-36) · InfoCision Stadium · 30,000 · 10,032 avg in 2026

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#62 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #128 (-21.4) · FPI #127
The marketMinnesota by 24at Minnesota · our model 33% Akron · a number, not a pick

LastW 45–10 vs Robert Morris · Sat Sep 12 · Cibastian Broughton 227 pass yds, 4 TD, 71 rush yds

Nextat Minnesota · Sat Sep 19 · 12 pm ET · Huntington Bank Stadium · Minnesota by 24 · first meeting on record · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Cautious optimism is building around Akron.

Joe Moorhead's year 5 (2026): 1-1, behind Oscar Rodriguez's 5-7 in the same spot.

belief warmed ↑ 14.9vs prior week
Fanbase belief
Leaning up
60/100 · 27 mentions · top 7% of FBS
~ our read
Grounding
running on emotion
4% cite a stat · 6% typical ✓ counted
~ our read
Volatility
Chaotic
σ 38 pts
~ our read
The model
#62
CFB Zeitgeist · +1.1
✓ measured
Explore all 5 corners of the fanbase ↓
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identity shift

Akron's fanbase shift signals FBS expansion.

Joe Moorhead enters his fourth season at Akron with a 5-7 losing record and the program facing academic sanctions, complicating efforts to restore its historic football legacy.

The jury's still out.

The Pulse on Akron

Archive · Wk 2 · 27 mentions · medium confidence
60
Δ +14.9 vs last wk
27 mentions this week · conversation velocity

What moved it — last 14 days

— Awaiting next signal window
"Akron" — Akron fanbase · recurring line

Fanbase Signals

Cohort Divergence
0 pctSpread between sub-fanbase cohorts in the Pulse window.
The Fever Year

Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
HHustle Belt
CCampus paper
ZZips Nation
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

What little we hear

Only 5 cohort(s) cleared the signal floor this week, so we won’t stage a split we can’t back. Here’s the honest read:

Gen Z+0.03
National take+0.03
Analytics crowd+0.03
Millennials+0.03
Die-hards+0.03

How Akron fans actually talk real · top-upvoted

Rr/CFBthe room

Not a great sign for Belichick. Almost like this is going badly.

▲ 744 ▼open ↗

The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to our read · topic model

fan energy
40%
recent results
17%
where the program is headed
12%
the coaching staff
11%
the schedule
10%

Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.

177 mentions · 7 sources · week 2026-01. Counts, sources and the divergence rank are measured (fact). Cohort labels and sentiment are a source-weighted model read (our read) — never a quote attributed to a person.
Belief checklight on evidence

~ our readAkron fans are down on the program, but it's more feel than fact right now.

backed by facts
4% cited a stat or resultleague 6%
the mood
20% optimistic43% down

✓ counted We read 56 posts from Akron fans this week.

Five Lenses

What people are saying right now

Radio, beat writers & editorial3 posts
Espn CFB
“Akron season-ticket holder Marty Whims, who won the "Offensive Coordinator For A Day" contest, saw his first drive as a coach end with a receiver's fumble.”
2d ago
The broader fanbase11 posts
r/CFB
“We should fire our offensive coordinator after the first drive more often.”
2d ago
News & campus coverage12 posts
News
“University of Akron alumnus, football fan picked to be Zips’ offensive coordinator for first drive WKYC”
1d ago
CFB analyst takes11 posts
Bluesky · @rodger.bsky.social
“thinking about how Akron tried something bold and new with the OC For A Drive promotion, got buy-in from the coach, got unprecedented attention for Akron…”
2d ago

Fanbase health · Akron

Akron's fanbase is growing — 58 of 100.

Loud (245 weighted voices in the latest week), middling on the field (5-7 last season, 1-1 so far), and not arguing about much.

On the field — 5-7 last season, 1-1 so far61
How loud — 245 weighted voices in the latest week78
How much they argue — not arguing about much35

3 of 3 signals · on-field reading uses last season until 4 games are in · 0–100, bands at 26 / 51 / 76

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