A word college football is using
“cooked”
Doomed, beaten, out of options — said about a team, a defense, or a matchup.
General internet slang, long since naturalised into football conversation.
How often it gets said
Daily mentions across the whole conversation corpus, smoothed over 7 days. A break in the line is a stretch where the word fell below the reporting floor — not a stretch where nobody said it.
Measured on 59 of the window’s 84 days.
- 1Sun Sep 20 · 41 mentions
- 2Sun Sep 6 · 28 mentions
- 3Tue Sep 15 · 25 mentions · 6 of 25 mentions named Oregon
A day is attributed to a program only when that program held at least 1.75× the next program’s mentions, from 5+ separate posts. The game shown is that program’s result within a day of the peak. A day with no program named was a day nobody owned.
Who’s saying it
Share of the posts, articles and transcripts in the window that used the word, by kind of source. Counted per document, not per mention, so one long transcript that says it twenty times is one voice, not twenty.
Most of the posts, articles and transcripts using “cooked” come from Reddit (63%), then YouTube (19%).
- Reddit 63%
- YouTube 19%
- podcasts and radio 10%
- beat writers and press 5%
- Bluesky 2%
- message boards 1%
What it sounds like
Real posts from the corpus, quoted verbatim. The community is shown; the username never is.
“The problem is 50% the coaches' fault for the play calling and 50% on the O line. They need line up and run the football to start the game and be committed to it ...”
“Yeah, he got cooked that play. I think he plays best as the 3rd safety on the field, and can hopefully transition to being something of a Rover linebacker throughout the year and fill in a starting LB role next year.”
“What will that do? The rest of the SEC is spending big money on their rosters. South Carolina is cooked unless they move back to the ACC. Seriously.”
Who it gets said about
2026 season, FBS programs. These are mentions that name a program — from rival fans and national media as readily as from their own people — so this is what the sport says about a program, not what that program’s fans say.
| # | Program | Vs. the average program | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida State | 1.8× | 41 | |
| 2 | Oregon | 1.2× | 32 | |
| 3 | Notre Dame | 1.1× | 25 | |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 1.1× | 27 | |
| 5 | Miami | 1.0× | 26 | |
| 6 | Alabama | 1.0× | 36 | |
| 7 | Ohio State | 0.9× | 26 | |
| 8 | Texas | 0.8× | 25 | |
8 FBS programs cleared the 25-mention floor for this word. Ranked by over-index, not raw volume — raw volume just ranks how much a program gets talked about.