Pac-12 · JaMarcus Shephard, year 1 (0-2) · Reser Stadium · 43,363 · 30,539 avg in 2026
LastL 24–35 vs Texas Tech · Sat Sep 12 · Jesse Legree 240 rec yds, 2 TD, 1 tackles
Nextvs Montana · Sat Sep 19 · 11 pm ET · Reser Stadium · series 12-2-2, lost the last 2 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
Oregon State fans can't agree.
Honestly I think we might be better than expected this year
Hoping this isn’t another season of “moral victories”, but we showed a lot more fight today than we did last year
5Trent Bray's second season opens with a 2-10 losing record, underscoring the challenge of rebuilding a program that must avoid Pac-12 collapse while navigating a transitional schedule.
What moved it — last 14 days
Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling
Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.04 of each other — a rare consensus. The loudest voice in the room:
Beavers seek breakthrough after competitive 0-2 start - Katu
news.google.com →I have a feeling they will need to comment further on this matter at some point.
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 readOregon State fans are leaning negative, but it's more feel than fact right now.
✓ counted We read 321 posts from Oregon State fans this week.
Press Pulse
10 quotes collected this season
What the beat said, in their own words.
Courts across the country granting relief to ineligible athletes who already had every opportunity to compete in college — sometimes without even having a hearing — are failing to appreciate the destabilizing effect their rulings are having on college sports
When the statistics all were laid out, his numbers were just a little bit better than some of the other ones
The team was excited about him getting this opportunity, and we want to make this fun for him, but also give him the chance to right now get prepared – mentally – to be that starting quarterback
Five Lenses
What people are saying right now
Fanbase health · Oregon State
Audible (23 weighted voices in the latest week) and middling on the field (2-10 last season, 0-2 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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Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
JaMarcus Shepherd hyping up the team and the whole stadium during the 3rd quarter break was one of the most magical cfb moments I have ever witnessed.
Why the FUCK do we have Big12 refs at a Pac12 home game. That was egregious. If I’m Jamarcus Shepherd I’m torching those refs in the postgame and letting the AD pick up the fine.
Based on 2 comments from 2 posters across 2 threads · Sep 13, 2026 · via CFB
Gloating as a top 25 against a bottom 25 team lmao. classy as always
Our special teams is top notch obviously.
Fanbase health · Oregon State