Ball State

3-5

Week 10 · game day · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Ball State beat Sacramento State 34-17 on Saturday, Oct 24; at 3-5, it plays at Massachusetts on Wednesday, Nov 4.

Ball State is 2-2 in the MAC.

  • L 3-56 at Ohio State
  • W 41-17 vs Stony Brook
  • L 15-51 at Liberty
  • L 13-26 at Kent State
  • L 24-39 vs Toledo
  • L 14-45 at Northwestern
  • W 32-31 at Bowling Green
  • W 34-17 vs Sacramento State
  • Next: at Massachusetts, Wednesday, Nov 4

Scores ours first.

The last two weeks

Ball State won 34-17 vs Sacramento State.

The whole Sacramento State game

Before Massachusetts

Mike Uremovich and Joe Harasymiak meet as head coaches for the first time.

Ball State needs three wins in its last four games to reach six.

The playoff simulation gives Ball State a 49% chance at Massachusetts on Wednesday, Nov 4.

Mike Uremovich's seat is the 16th-hottest of 132 in the hot-seat model.

In the playoff simulation, the Massachusetts game has a bowl on it for Ball State.

Massachusetts game on Now

What the Massachusetts game is worth

Ball State's game threads have not carried enough talk for a fan mood read this season.

Fan mood, week by week

Mood over time

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

More in this tab

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

Inside the fanbase: all 7 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
HHustle Belt
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
6 outlets & communities talking

One voice

−0.03Whole-fanbase sentiment · cool

Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.01 of each other — a rare consensus. The most upvoted post:

GGoogle NewsBeat · article

Ball State Cardinals vs. Massachusetts Minutemen Free Pick & CFB Betting Prediction, 11/4/26 - Sports Cappers Picks

news.google.com →

How Ball State fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

BALL STATE PEOPLE GET IN HERE!

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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−0.04 to Die-hards−0.02

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

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
40%
recent results
28%
the schedule
13%
where the program is headed
8%
the rankings
3%

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

week 1. 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.
The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Ball State fans 18% of posts bring up another team#66 of 77 saltiest · mostly about Missouri
Who Ball State fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Missouri6%
  2. Sacramento State2%
  3. Stanford2%
  4. Purdue2%
  5. UConn2%
share of Ball State’s football posts that mention each team
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