Kansas

3-5

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Kansas lost 16-22 at TCU and is 3-5.

Fan mood in the week of the TCU game: middle of the pack

Fan mood in each Kansas 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 Missouri L 21-38on the bright sidevs Arizona State L 17-24middle of the packvs Middle Tennessee W 55-0middle of the packat Utah L 24-41middle of the packat Kansas State L 24-35sourvs Baylor W 25-24on the sour sideat TCU L 16-22middle of the packsourerbrighterSep 11vs MissouriL 21-38on the bright sideSep 19vs Arizona StateL 17-24middle of the packOct 3vs Middle TennesseeW 55-0middle of the packOct 10at UtahL 24-41middle of the packOct 17at Kansas StateL 24-35sourOct 24vs BaylorW 25-24on the sour sideOct 31at TCUL 16-22middle of the pack
  • W 51-6 vs Long Island University
  • L 21-38 vs Missouri
  • L 17-24 vs Arizona State
  • W 55-0 vs Middle Tennessee
  • L 24-41 at Utah
  • L 24-35 at Kansas State
  • W 25-24 vs Baylor
  • L 16-22 at TCU
  • Next: vs UCF, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first.

Since the last game

Kansas lost 16-22 at TCU, after leading 13-0 at half.

The whole TCU game

Before UCF

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

The playoff simulation gives Kansas a 63% chance at home against UCF on Saturday, Nov 7.

In the playoff simulation, the UCF game has a bowl on it for Kansas.

UCF game on Now

What the UCF game is worth

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Kansas 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

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Fan chatter

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

Fan chatter this season

Roaring

The loudest night was the 25-24 win over Baylor.

FirstSecondThirdFourthKansas fansBaylor fansusual

A usual night for Kansas fans is steady.

Arguments

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

Inside the fanbase: all 12 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
LLocked On
BBring On The Cats
RRock Chalk Talk
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
8 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.16
Local
Most bought-in cohort
vs
Coldest corner+0.07
National take
Coolest cohort

How Kansas fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

K-State may be our rival, but Missouri is the enemy

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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

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All 12 corners of the fanbase

negative
0
positive
National take+0.07 to Local+0.16

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

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
27%
recent results
20%
where the program is headed
14%
the coaching staff
10%
offense
7%

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 argue the defense struggles to stop opponents on 4th-down attempts

This team can't compete for anything until they can learn how to win a close game, the amount of drops and the inability of our defense to get a stop on 3rd and 4th down is going to cost us several more games this season if they can't get it fixed

Based on 5 comments from 3 posters across 4 threads · Aug 30, 2025–Oct 25, 2025 · via CFB

program directionOne fan's take

One fan thinks Mizzou’s program is less prestigious

Bro said ‘villains’ like Mizzou hasn’t spent the last 5 years getting bounced around the SEC like a ping pong ball

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB

player roleOne fan's take that season

One fan thinks certain players are being underutilized

Seen enough. Let Ballard get some reps and then Marshall later in the 2nd half

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Aug 30, 2025 · via CFB

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program directionOne fan's take that season

One fan believes the offense will score many points in some games

Coach Z has always been good, but getting Coach Lubick back was so massive this offseason. Significant reason why our offense with Kotelnicki was so powerful.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Aug 24, 2025 · via CFB

Rival talk

The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Kansas fans 74% of posts bring up another team#12 of 77 saltiest · mostly about Missouri
Who Kansas fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Missouri17%
  2. Kansas State11%
  3. TCU6%
  4. Utah6%
  5. Baylor5%
share of Kansas’s football posts that mention each team

How Kansas 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.

Lance Leipold
×830.6 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Lance Leipold×830.6
Jalon Daniels×442.4
Andy Kotelnicki×287.0

“Lance Liepold is the best KU football coach I’ve ever watched as a Gen Z man, Lance Leipold still has yet to win ONE RIVALRY GAME”

reddit/CFB · fan post
Fans on Lance Leipold
  1. Lance leipold melting down is now just a complete given at this point. He’s genuinely probably
  2. You guys can have Lance Leipold and we will even waive his buyout!
  3. Lance Leipold cannot coach football
  4. There’s not a coach in the country that deserves to get fired more than Lance leipold
  5. lance leipold team and this is what we've done for years
  6. If it were my decision, Lance Leipold would be fired after this season as a result of the choices made in this game.
  7. Lance Liepold is the best KU football coach I’ve ever watched as a Gen Z man, Lance Leipold still has yet to win ONE RIVALRY GAME
  8. I say this without animosity: Lance Leipold needs to go. Thanks for pulling us out of the bottomless pit of despair, coach,
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 Kansas — 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.

  • “aura”1.6×more than the average program · #11 of 48
The whole board →
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Doomers
Optimism
6th
Joy
7th
Anger
94th
Doom
48th
Sarcasm
27th
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season vocabulary

2026nil
nilrivalrymarshalldonthrowisn
nil has literally ruined college sports.
2025defense
defensezonepleasestopredflair
Now if our defense could actually tackle
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