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Rutgers win total fell from 5 to 3.5 (-1.5 wins) between May 2026 and Jun 2026.
Schiano's sixth season arrives with a 5-7 record and win total dip from 5 to 3.5 — a historic program's reset now faces its first real test.
Rutgers
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Big Ten · Greg Schiano, year 7 (31-43) · SHI Stadium · 52,454 · 42,454 avg in 2026
The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#87 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #78 (-3.6) · FPI #98
The marketUSC by 24.5vs USC · our model 22% Rutgers · a number, not a pick
LastL 21–28 at Boston College · Fri Sep 11 · Moses Walker 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 2 INT
Nextvs USC · Sat Sep 19 · 3:30 pm ET · SHI Stadium · USC by 24.5 · series 0-1 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
No consensus around Rutgers right now — the fanbase is genuinely divided.
Greg Schiano's year 7 (2026): 0-2, behind Nunzio Campanile's 5-7 in the same spot.
Most Rutgers fans are unhappy — but a real minority isn't buying the panic.
WHY ARE YOU STOPPING THAT BALL FROM ROLLING FORWARD
Maybe we should try to THROW TO KJ DUFF IN TBE RED ZONE
belief cooled ↓ 1.8vs prior week
Fanbase belief
Mixed
46/100 · 312 mentions
~ our readThe model
#87
CFB Zeitgeist · -1.5
✓ measured3The Pulse on Rutgers
46
Δ -1.8 vs last wk
312
mentions this week · conversation velocity
What moved it — last 14 days
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Awaiting next signal window
"RU Rah Rah"
— Rutgers fanbase · recurring line
81 mentions · sample growing
The Fever Year
Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling
Inside the fanbase — all 12 corners
Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
OOn The Banks
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
The split, staged
Warmest corner+0.00
Local
least sour cohort our read
vs
Coldest corner−0.00
Casuals
most skeptical cohort our read
How Rutgers fans actually talk real · top-upvoted
Rr/CFBthe room
This is a TCU story, for anyone else who had to google who these folks' team was.
▲ 3.4k ▼open ↗
The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.
Loudest in the room this week real · by engagement
All 12 corners of the fanbase
skeptical
buying in
Local−0.02
Casuals−0.12
Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.
What this fanbase keeps coming back to our read · topic model
Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.
659 mentions · 6 sources · week 2026-02. Counts, sources and the divergence rank are measured (fact). Cohort labels and sentiment are a source-weighted model read (our read) — never a quote attributed to a person.
Belief checklight on evidence
~ our readRutgers fans are down on the program, with almost nothing concrete behind it yet.
backed by facts
the mood
✓ counted We read 312 posts from Rutgers fans this week.
Five Lenses
What people are saying right now
Radio, beat writers & editorial11 posts
The broader fanbase2 posts
News & campus coverage6 posts
CFB analyst takes11 posts
Fanbase health · Rutgers
Fanbase health · RutgersRutgers's fanbase is growing — 64 of 100.
Audible (80 weighted voices in the latest week) and middling on the field (5-7 last season, 0-2 so far).
64
On the field — 5-7 last season, 0-2 so far61
How loud — 80 weighted voices in the latest week68
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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Arguments
What fans are saying
Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
program directionLimited signal that season
fans believe the team is stuck in mediocrity
Dude is like the ultimate example of P5 college football purgatory: will probably never get the team to the next level of achievement, but has done too well to easily justify firing.
Our famously defensive oriented coach had one of the worst defenses of his career this year, possibly THE worst. You get the 2023 defense with this year's offense and we're probably 9-3.
Based on 2 comments from 2 posters across 2 threads · Aug 29, 2025–Nov 30, 2025 · via CFB
player performanceOne fan's take that season
One fan compares key players to Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey
Duff & Raymond are literally the football version of Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. There’s nobody else on this team
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB
player performanceOne fan's take that season
One fan thinks his presence boosts the team's scoring potential
The Rutgers KJ Duffs with a side of Antwan Raymond are going to be one of the greatest highlight reel teams of all time if you crop out the score.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB
program directionOne fan's take that season
One fan believes the offense must score more points than usual to win
i don't even know how much they can do about it at this point. we're going to need the offense to help keep us in games if we want to find 3 more wins this year.
we're going to need the offense to help keep us in games if we want to find 3 more wins this year.
Based on 2 comments from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 13, 2025 · via CFB
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job securityOne fan's take
One fan thinks the team's performance is unacceptable under his leadership
he shouldn't even be allowed back on the plane tonight, but i fear that we're going to ride this out for the season just to bring the buyout down.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB
player performanceOne fan's take that season
One fan thinks the team played poorly in the loss
What an absolute fucking disaster of a home opener.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 4, 2026 · via CFB
program directionOne fan's take
One fan believes Greg Schiano has made changes to the coaching staff
Rutgers' Greg Schiano calls his 5-7 unacceptable last season, and feels he's fixed it. Says the emphasis is on better ball security and forcing turnovers, cites the hiring of new DC Travis Johansen.
Based on 1 comment across 1 thread · Jul 28, 2026
Podcasts
From the booth
The obsession
Rent free · r/cfb fan posts, last season
Rutgers fans this offseason 7% of posts bring up another team▲1pp saltier#68 of 70 saltiest · mostly about Penn State
Who Rutgers fans can’t stop bringing up
share of Rutgers’s football posts that mention each team
Rutgers lives rent-free in
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up Rutgers
Voice profile
Fanbase Voice
1,206 fan mentions
Doomers
vs the 94 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by era
Season Vocabulary
2026COLLEGE
collegemichiganfcsschoolsnewcfb
Greg Schiano makes AJ Surace QB1 ahead of game vs. Boston college
2025DEFENSE
defenseoffenserankedohiobowlgreat
Yea this defense is somehow to play Iowa
Defining terms
Words of the season
how the conversation changed, year to year
2026
college×4.2michigan×5.4fcs×9.2schools×4.2new×2.7
2025
defense×5.6offense×2.9ranked×3.0ohio×2.6bowl×4.3
Fanbase cluster
Your Vocabulary Clustercluster 1with 4 other fanbases
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