Pittsburgh

6-3

Week 10 · open week · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Pittsburgh beat Georgia Tech 34-11 and is 6-3.

Fan mood in the week of the Georgia Tech game: middle of the pack

Fan mood in each Pittsburgh 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 UCF W 12-7middle of the packvs Syracuse W 27-13middle of the packvs Bucknell W 59-0not enough talk to readat Virginia Tech W 35-33middle of the packvs North Carolina L 17-21middle of the packat Boston College L 21-27not enough talk to readat Miami L 23-52middle of the packvs Georgia Tech W 34-11middle of the packsourerbrighterSep 12vs UCFW 12-7middle of the packSep 17vs SyracuseW 27-13middle of the packSep 26vs BucknellW 59-0not enough talk to readOct 2at Virginia TechW 35-33middle of the packOct 10vs North CarolinaL 17-21middle of the packOct 17at Boston CollegeL 21-27not enough talk to readOct 24at MiamiL 23-52middle of the packOct 31vs Georgia TechW 34-11middle of the pack
  • W 59-14 vs Miami (OH)
  • W 12-7 vs UCF
  • W 27-13 vs Syracuse
  • W 59-0 vs Bucknell
  • W 35-33 at Virginia Tech
  • L 17-21 vs North Carolina
  • L 21-27 at Boston College
  • L 23-52 at Miami
  • W 34-11 vs Georgia Tech
  • Next: vs Florida State, Friday, Nov 13

Scores ours first. The three losses came by 4, 6 and 29.

Since the last game

Pittsburgh won 34-11 vs Georgia Tech.

The whole Georgia Tech game

Before Florida State

Pat Narduzzi is 2-1 against Florida State as a head coach.

The rating model gives Pittsburgh a 64% chance at home against Florida State on Friday, Nov 13.

Florida State game on Now

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Pittsburgh 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 reporters say

What reporters say

9 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

You think about how you want to do the very best work you can possibly do, and the kind of resources and investment that it takes to do that, and you set a target that is a reachable, ambitious goal, and that’s how we came up with our total numbers
Gabel · The Pitt News2 days after Pittsburgh's 2026 game against Bucknell
What we’re doing should make it possible for every student who wants to be here to be able to have everything our education offers and for our faculty to be able to pursue the boundaries of their creativity in ways that really mean something
Gabel · The Pitt News2 days after the 59-0 game
This place — it touches you in a way. The people give you the motivation [and] the inspiration to achieve the things that you want
Fitzgerald · The Pitt News2 days after the 59-0 game

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

Fan chatter this season

Loud

The loudest night was the 17-21 loss to North Carolina.

FirstSecondThirdFourthNorth Carolina fansPittsburgh fansusual

A usual night for Pittsburgh fans is busy.

The argumentThe one thing this fanbase can't agree on, with receipts.
Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
5 outlets & communities talking

What little we hear

Only 4 cohort(s) cleared the signal floor this week, so we won’t stage a split we can’t back. Here’s the honest read:

National take+0.10
Gen Z+0.09
Analytics crowd+0.09
Millennials+0.09

How Pittsburgh fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

Pat Narduzzi is the most annoying man alive to anyone who isn’t a Pitt fan.

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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.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
30%
recent results
20%
where the program is headed
13%
the rankings
7%
the coaching staff
6%

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.
The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Pittsburgh fans 9% of posts bring up another team#73 of 77 saltiest · mostly about Penn State
Who Pittsburgh fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Penn State2%
  2. West Virginia1%
  3. Florida1%
  4. North Carolina1%
  5. Clemson1%
share of Pittsburgh’s football posts that mention each team
Pittsburgh lives rent-free in
  1. Virginia Tech23%
  2. Temple5%
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up Pittsburgh
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Doomers
Optimism
23rd
Joy
26th
Anger
68th
Doom
92nd
Sarcasm
33rd
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season vocabulary

2026miami
miamirankedbackmantopwins
miami played in the national championship last year! Yikes!
2025line
lineoffensiveoffensestadiumpleasespread
Our o line looks really good, qb has all day
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