Mountain West · Jeff Choate, year 3 (7-20) · Mackay Stadium · 27,000 · 20,541 avg in 2026
LastL 7–20 vs Montana State · Sat Sep 12 · EJ Smith 1 sacks, 2 TFL, 10 tackles
Nextat Middle Tennessee · Sat Sep 19 · 7 pm ET · Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium · Nevada by 3.5 · series 0-1 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
Jeff Choate's year 3 (2026): 1-1, behind Ken Wilson's 3-10 in the same spot.
2Jeff Choate begins his second season with a 3-9 losing record to uphold, as Nevada's identity hinges on reviving the Pistol offense and Mackay Stadium's legacy amid a weak FBS tier.
What moved it — last 14 days
Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling
I just want to see Bama play a road playoff game in Pullman in the snow now.
The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.
Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.
Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.
~ our readNevada fans are down on the program, with almost nothing concrete behind it yet.
✓ counted We read 111 posts from Nevada fans this week.
Press Pulse
6 quotes collected this season
What the beat said, in their own words.
I don’t care what sport you play, when you have people behind you, that is the home-field advantage
I feel like we’re able to handle things so much better because we are so connected
I feel as though a lot of people are forced to have evacuated already anyways, and, depending on how these people are getting to work or what other things are going on in their lives, or if they even have a place to stay
Five Lenses
What people are saying right now
Fanbase health · Nevada
Loud (165 weighted voices in the latest week) and middling on the field (3-9 last season, 1-1 so far).
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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Fanbase health · Nevada