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Coastal Carolina's fanbase shift signals FBS expansion.
Tim Beck enters his third season at Coastal Carolina with a 6-7 losing record, as the program's identity shifts amid its legacy as a Sun Belt disruptor.
Coastal Carolina
1-1Latest
Sun Belt · Ryan Beard, year 1 (1-1) · Brooks Stadium (SC) · 21,000 · 18,113 avg in 2026
The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#135 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #110 (-12.1) · FPI #111
The marketDelaware by 5at Delaware · our model 8% Coastal Carolina · a number, not a pick
LastW 45–7 vs Fordham · Sat Sep 12 · Deuce Bailey 203 pass yds, 3 TD, 21 rush yds
Nextat Delaware · Sat Sep 19 · 11:30 am ET · Delaware Stadium · Delaware by 5 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
Cautious optimism is building around Coastal Carolina.
belief warmed ↑ 6.9vs prior week
Fanbase belief
Leaning up
56/100 · 48 mentions · top 15% of FBS
~ our readThe model
#135
CFB Zeitgeist · -7.9
✓ measured4The Pulse on Coastal Carolina
56
Δ +6.9 vs last wk
48
mentions this week · conversation velocity
What moved it — last 14 days
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Awaiting next signal window
"Chants"
— Coastal Carolina fanbase · recurring line
43 mentions · sample growing
The Fever Year
Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling
Inside the fanbase — all 7 corners
Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
UUnderdog Dynasty
CCampus paper
CCoastal Fans
BBluesky
YYouTube
One voice
+0.00whole-room sentiment · warm our read
Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.03 of each other — a rare consensus. The loudest voice in the room:
UUnderdog DynastyBeat · article
James Madison scores 87 points, ties largest margin of victory by FBS team since 1968
underdogdynasty.com →How Coastal Carolina fans actually talk real · top-upvoted
The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.
The room, end to end
skeptical
buying in
Casuals+0.11
Bettors+0.08
Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.
What this fanbase keeps coming back to our read · topic model
Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.
211 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 readCoastal Carolina fans are down on the program, but it's more feel than fact right now.
backed by facts
the mood
✓ counted We read 93 posts from Coastal Carolina fans this week.
Five Lenses
What people are saying right now
Radio, beat writers & editorial14 posts
The broader fanbase5 posts
News & campus coverage13 posts
Fanbase health · Coastal Carolina
Fanbase health · Coastal CarolinaCoastal Carolina's fanbase is growing — 63 of 100.
Audible (42 weighted voices in the latest week) and winning on the field (6-7 last season, 1-1 so far).
63
On the field — 6-7 last season, 1-1 so far63
How loud — 42 weighted voices in the latest week63
2 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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Voice profile
Fanbase Voice
402 fan mentions
Believers
vs the 81 highest-volume fanbases - 2025 season
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