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San Diego State completes big move, joining Pac-12 with other former Mountain West schools - Times of San Diegoour readThe Fresno State rivalry

Pac-12 · Sean Lewis, year 3 (13-14) · Snapdragon Stadium · 35,000 · 26,913 avg in 2026

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#46 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #57 (+3.1) · FPI #73
The marketSan Diego State by 2.5vs James Madison · our model 69% San Diego State · a number, not a pick

LastL 10–28 at UCLA · Sat Sep 12 · Mike Lindsay 1 TFL, 1 INT, 3 tackles

Nextvs James Madison · Sat Sep 19 · 10 pm ET · Snapdragon Stadium · San Diego State by 2.5 · first meeting on record · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Cautious optimism is building around San Diego State.

Sean Lewis's year 3 (2026): 1-1, behind Brady Hoke's 7-6 in the same spot.

belief held flatvs prior week
Fanbase belief
Leaning up
54/100 · 137 mentions · top 20% of FBS
~ our read
Grounding
running on emotion
4% cite a stat · 6% typical ✓ counted
~ our read
Volatility
Chaotic
σ 19 pts
~ our read
The model
#46
CFB Zeitgeist · +3.5
✓ measured
Explore all 8 corners of the fanbase ↓
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coordinators

San Diego State's coordinator change reshapes Mountain West.

Sean Lewis enters his third season at San Diego State with a 9-4 record, but the program's lower-tier status and coordinator reshuffles raise questions about sustaining momentum in a competitive Pac-12.

The question isn't answered yet.

The Pulse on San Diego State

Archive · Wk 2 · 137 mentions · medium confidence
54
Δ -0.3 vs last wk
137 mentions this week · conversation velocity

What moved it — last 14 days

— Awaiting next signal window
"Snapdragon" — San Diego State fanbase · recurring line
92 mentions · sample growing
The Fever Year

Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling

Inside the fanbase — all 8 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
MMountain West Connection
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
6 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.00
Local
most bought-in cohort our read
vs
Coldest corner−0.00
National take
coolest cohort our read

How San Diego State fans actually talk real · top-upvoted

Rr/CFBthe room

There was about a 10 minute span in August 2023, right before Washington jumped to the B1G and blew everything up, where SDSU was on the cusp of being voted into legacy Pac-12. 🙃

▲ 452 ▼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 8 corners of the fanbase

skeptical
buying in
Local+0.28
National take+0.10

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

fan energy
47%
where the program is headed
12%
recent results
12%
the coaching staff
7%
the schedule
5%

Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.

259 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 readSan Diego State fans are cautiously optimistic, with a bit less hard evidence than most fanbases.

backed by facts
4% cited a stat or resultleague 6%
the mood
26% optimistic15% down

✓ counted We read 137 posts from San Diego State fans this week.

Press Pulse

23 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

We saw something that said we were the most underrated running back room in the nation and we took that to heart
Sutton · Thedailyaztecthe day after San Diego State's 2026 opener
The defense and special teams put us in a very advantageous spot to score quickly
Lewis · Thedailyaztecthe day after the 53–20 opener
I’m looking forward to some of these new characters as we step underneath the lights together for the first time, and we walk out to the battlefield together for the first time to see the look in their eye
Lewis · Thedailyaztec4 days before the opener

Five Lenses

What people are saying right now

Radio, beat writers & editorial16 posts
Mountain West Connection
“AZTECS HOLD BRUINS SCORELESS IN THE FIRST HALF, BUT STRUGGLE LATER ON IN 28-10 LOSS PAC-12 GOES 3-7 IN WEEK TWO. BOISE STATE REBOUNDS WITH WIN OVER MEMPHIS,…”
1d ago
The broader fanbase6 posts
r/CFB
“This was a Sickos game”
2d ago

Fanbase health · San Diego State

San Diego State's fanbase is growing — 72 of 100.

Audible (92 weighted voices in the latest week) and winning on the field (9-4 last season, 1-1 so far).

On the field — 9-4 last season, 1-1 so far75
How loud — 92 weighted voices in the latest week69

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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The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent free · r/cfb fan posts, last season
San Diego State lives rent-free in
  1. Colorado State6%
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up San Diego State
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Fanbase Voice 337 fan mentions
Believers
Optimism
94th
Joy
16th
Anger
16th
Doom
100th
Sarcasm
28th
vs the 94 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
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