Colorado State

3-5

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Colorado State lost 14-31 at Utah State and is 3-5 in Jim Mora's first season.

Fan mood in the week of the Utah State game: sour, sourer than usual for them

Fan mood in each Colorado State 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.

sourerbrightervs Southern Utah W 58-24not enough talk to readvs BYU L 23-41middle of the packat UTSA L 45-59middle of the packvs Oregon State L 26-56on the sour sideat Texas State L 27-66middle of the packvs San Diego State W 56-49all inat Utah State L 14-31soursourerbrighterSep 12vs Southern UtahW 58-24not enough talk to readSep 19vs BYUL 23-41middle of the packSep 26at UTSAL 45-59middle of the packOct 3vs Oregon StateL 26-56on the sour sideOct 15at Texas StateL 27-66middle of the packOct 24vs San Diego StateW 56-49all inOct 31at Utah StateL 14-31sour
  • W 35-13 vs Wyoming
  • W 58-24 vs Southern Utah
  • L 23-41 vs BYU
  • L 45-59 at UTSA
  • L 26-56 vs Oregon State
  • L 27-66 at Texas State
  • W 56-49 vs San Diego State
  • L 14-31 at Utah State
  • Next: vs Boise State, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first.

Since the last game

Colorado State lost 14-31 at Utah State.

The whole Utah State game

Before Boise State

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

The playoff simulation gives Colorado State a 28% chance at home against Boise State on Saturday, Nov 7.

Boise State game on Now

What the Boise State game is worth

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Colorado State 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 message boards say

Message boards

Via RamNation

What the reporters say

What reporters say

24 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

That was awful, an awful performance by all of us starting with me not getting the team ready to go
Mora · Collegian3 days after Colorado State's 2026 game against Utah State
You approach (the offense) with candor and honesty, and you tell the truth in meetings
Mora · Collegian3 days after the 14-31 game
When you watch Utah State play defense in particular, it’s very, very impressive
Mora · Collegian2 days before the Utah State game

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

Fan chatter this season

Busy

The loudest night was the 35-13 win over Wyoming.

FirstSecondThirdFourthColorado State fansWyoming fansusual

A usual night for Colorado State fans is steady.

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

Inside the fanbase: all 7 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
MMountain West Connection
CCampus paper
RRamNation
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.26
Local
Most bought-in cohort
vs
Coldest corner+0.03
National take
Coolest cohort

How Colorado State fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

We've given up 34 PPG (10th Worst), 454 YPG (3rd Worst) and 230 Rushing YPG (4th Worst). That was before we gave up another 56 points and 650 yards today

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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.

From the team’s own coverage

All 7 corners of the fanbase

negative
0
positive
National take+0.03 to Local+0.26

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
18%
where the program is headed
10%
the defense
10%
the coaching staff
8%

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 performanceWidely held among fans that season

fans believe Colorado State’s defense is underperforming

That was a pretty terrible defense showing. It looked like our strategy was to blitz and "let's see if their QB can make the throws." Apparently he can

The defense was impressive last week when it mattered (third and fourth down) but this week is downright horrendous. If they didn’t punch the ball out twice southern Utah would probably be up… Way too much like what we saw last year.

Based on 3 comments from 3 posters across 3 threads · Sep 12, 2026–Sep 26, 2026 · via CFB, CSURams

The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Colorado State fans 70% of posts bring up another team▲2pp saltier#18 of 77 saltiest · mostly about Wyoming
Who Colorado State fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Wyoming19%
  2. Colorado14%
  3. BYU11%
  4. Utah10%
  5. Boise State9%
share of Colorado State’s football posts that mention each team
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.

Jim Mora
×501.7 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Jim Mora×501.7
Tyson Summers×1273.6
Hauss Hejny×504.8

“Emphatic rivalry win to start the Jim Mora era at Colorado State.”

bluesky_curated · fan post
Fans on Jim Mora
  1. Colorado State’s defense gets worse somehow and we win one more game. Jim Mora retires at the end of the season so he can hike more, which is half the reason he
  2. Jim Mora experiment feels like it’s on thin ice Not that he’ll get fired this year or even
  3. Jim Mora says. Mora says Summers elected to leave the field. Mora says Summers is no longer
  4. Jim Mora to retain Tyson Summers is a complete mystery to me because any fan that was half
  5. Jim Mora (Colorado State HC #5. Brian Hartline Ohio State Co-OC/WR Coach) #6. Andy Kotelnicki
  6. I love Jim Mora and I love boots.
  7. Emphatic rivalry win to start the Jim Mora era at Colorado State.
  8. "Jim Mora is not going to be happy when he has a conversation with his defensive coordinator" Then
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Measured
Optimism
66th
Joy
59th
Anger
60th
Doom
51st
Sarcasm
20th
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
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