Arizona

6-2

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Arizona lost 26-34 at Texas Tech and is 6-2.

Fan mood in the week of the Texas Tech game: middle of the pack

Fan mood in each Arizona game week this season

Compared with other fanbases in r/CFB game threads that week. Each row is a week, named for its game; the further right the dot, the brighter the talk.

sourerbrighterat BYU L 17-28middle of the packvs Northern Illinois W 42-17not enough talk to readat Washington State W 34-24middle of the packvs Cincinnati W 34-7on the bright sideat West Virginia W 52-31on the bright sidevs Iowa State W 39-3all inat Texas Tech L 26-34middle of the packsourerbrighterSep 12at BYUL 17-28middle of the packSep 19vs Northern IllinoisW 42-17not enough talk to readSep 26at Washington StateW 34-24middle of the packOct 3vs CincinnatiW 34-7on the bright sideOct 10at West VirginiaW 52-31on the bright sideOct 24vs Iowa StateW 39-3all inOct 31at Texas TechL 26-34middle of the pack
  • W 35-7 vs Northern Arizona
  • L 17-28 at BYU
  • W 42-17 vs Northern Illinois
  • W 34-24 at Washington State
  • W 34-7 vs Cincinnati
  • W 52-31 at West Virginia
  • W 39-3 vs Iowa State
  • L 26-34 at Texas Tech
  • Next: vs TCU, Friday, Nov 6

Scores ours first. The two losses came by 11 and 8.

Since the last game

Arizona lost 26-34 at Texas Tech, after leading 17-10 at half.

The whole Texas Tech game

Before TCU

Sonny Dykes is 1-2 against Arizona as a head coach.

The playoff simulation gives Arizona a 69% chance at home against TCU on Friday, Nov 6.

In the playoff simulation, the TCU game has a playoff place on it for Arizona.

TCU game on Now

What the TCU game is worth

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Arizona fans wrote in r/CFB game threads with every FBS fanbase with enough talk that week. A week runs Monday to Sunday and is named for the game in it. The read is redrawn 300 times from the same commenters, re-ranking every fanbase each time. Sour or all in means the read sat in the bottom or top fifth in at least 70 of every 100 draws; on the sour side or on the bright side, in the bottom or top two fifths in at least 80; anything less settled is middle of the pack. A bright label also needs more positive talk than negative, and a sour one the reverse. Brighter or sourer than usual compares the week with the team's own earlier weeks, after taking out how every fanbase read that week. Each dot sits at the read's rank that week. A week read before these labels keeps the word it was first given, the fifth it sat in (sour, uneasy, mixed, hopeful or all in). Season averages are the mean of a season's reads, in fifths from sour to all in, and seasons before 2026 were read from each week's wider talk, so a comparison across seasons is rough.

Fan mood, week by week

Mood over time

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

What the reporters say

What reporters say

15 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

All I’m thinking about is let’s pack Casino Del Sol Stadium in two weeks. This team has been playing their tails off. These players love the University of Arizona. They keep choosing the University of Arizona. They keep choosing the city of Tucson and it’s time the city of Tucson to choose them
Brennan · Wildcat Arizona2 days after Arizona's 2026 game against West Virginia
The only difference is our Thursday routine is going to change because we’re flying out Thursday, so we will practice Thursday morning
Brennan · On33 days after the 34-7 game
Danny G has done a great job with that group and Coach Salave’a developing them and Coach Bringuel
Brennan · On33 days after the 34-7 game

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Fan chatter

Fan chatterThe loudest night of the season and what a usual night looks like.

Fan chatter this season

Busy

The loudest night was the 42-17 win over Northern Illinois.

FirstSecondThirdFourthArizona fansNorthern Illinois fansusual

A usual night for Arizona fans is steady.

Arguments

The argumentThe one thing this fanbase can't agree on, with receipts.

Inside the fanbase: all 8 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
LLocked On
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
6 outlets & communities talking

One voice

+0.21Whole-fanbase sentiment · warm

Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.03 of each other — a rare consensus. The most upvoted post:

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Locked On

Fraud Alert: Arizona Exposed as Pretenders, Mo and Ivan Star, Team Struggles in Ugly loss vs Ucla

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How Arizona fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

Noah could’ve gotten the absolute bag but him (and Tmac) decided to be loyal. I respect the shit out of that. 5-1 RANK US, COWARDS! Also GG WVU. Yallre cool

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One of the crowd’s most upvoted takes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

Every fan group, end to end

negative
0
positive
Casuals+0.19 to Millennials+0.22

Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
34%
recent results
21%
where the program is headed
11%
offense
7%
the coaching staff
5%

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

week 10. The sources and the divergence rank are measured. Cohort labels and sentiment are a source-weighted model estimate, never a quote attributed to a person.
ArgumentsRecurring arguments this fanbase keeps returning to.

What fans are saying

player performanceOne fan's take

One fan believes their kicker misses too many field goals

No but he’s responsible for 27 yards rushing during due to his recruitment of the line & rbs. A horrendous kicker he refused to move on from

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 31, 2026 · via CFB

player performanceOne fan's take

One fan believes Noah Fifita’s playmaking ability is irreplaceable

I hope Brennan and Co have something big cooking for next year's QB because without Noah I genuinely don't know how this team wins games.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 10, 2026 · via CFB

Rival talk

The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Arizona fans 65% of posts bring up another team#21 of 77 saltiest · mostly about West Virginia
Who Arizona fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. West Virginia9%
  2. Kentucky9%
  3. BYU7%
  4. Wisconsin5%
  5. Cincinnati5%
share of Arizona’s football posts that mention each team
Arizona lives rent-free in
  1. San José State6%
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up Arizona
Rivalry wordsNumbers from Words for this program and its tier-1 rival, staged side by side.
What the sport says about this rivalry 2026 season · from Words

The watchlist words in play for this rivalry, Arizona vs. Arizona State, staged head to head. A number is how much a program uses that word against the average FBS program — above or below 1.0× — not raw volume, and not a claim about who says it about whom.

Arizona Arizona State
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How Arizona fans talk

Who they talk aboutThe people this fanbase names more than anyone else does.
Who they talk about Against the field · 2026 season

The names this fanbase says more than anyone else does — players, coaches, the places they keep coming back to. Not slang: these are the people carrying the conversation.

Noah Fifita
×583.8 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Noah Fifita×583.8
Brent Brennan×284.7
Seth Doege×387.1

“Noah Fifita Named to Preseason All-Big 12 Team”

reddit/ArizonaWildcats · fan post
Fans on Noah Fifita
  1. Oh my god what a play by Noah Fifita!!! 94-yard Arizona touchdown
  2. Noah Fifita chose loyalty over money in college football's NIL era. He's now become a community
  3. Arizona takes the lead at Texas Tech, 10-7. Noah Fifita burns Tech on a 3rd and 12 for a 94-yard TD. The Cats have gained 149 of their 163
  4. Noah Fifita, THIS is your Heisman moment.
  5. Noah Fifita the first 50 minutes: wow this kid should be in the heisman talks Noah Fifita the
  6. Speak for yourself. Noah Fifita is the GOAT
  7. Noah Fifita, his 5-10, 190-pound QB who is probably closer to 5-8 — and that only makes this
  8. “He’s a friggin unicorn, man, especially in this day and age.” Noah Fifita is the best story in college football. He didn’t just get Arizona back into the
What they're calledThe slang the sport reaches for about this program more than most.
What the sport calls them 2026 season · from Words

How often college football reaches for these watchlist words about Arizona — against the average FBS program, or against their own usual rate — said by rival fans and national media as readily as by their own people.

The whole board →
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Doomers
Optimism
72nd
Joy
85th
Anger
40th
Doom
87th
Sarcasm
6th
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season vocabulary

2026byu
byutechnoahtexasvirginiageorgia
Damn byu's defense has been lock down this half.
2025kicker
kickerdrfoddstrashkickoffzone
Snap doesn't matter, our kicker is just awful.
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