A word college football is using
“natty”
The national championship, as a thing to win or to have won.
Long-standing college-football shorthand, older than most of the rest of this list.
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 84 of the window’s 84 days.
- 1Sun Sep 13 · 153 mentions
- 2Sun Sep 6 · 135 mentions
- 3Sun Sep 20 · 81 mentions
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 “natty” come from Reddit (73%), then YouTube (21%).
- Reddit 73%
- YouTube 21%
- podcasts and radio 4%
- beat writers and press 2%
- message boards 1%
What it sounds like
Real posts from the corpus, quoted verbatim. The community is shown; the username never is.
“It kills me that IU could have had May and Cignetti in the same building. The students would have burned down Bloomington if we had a football and basketball natty in the same year.”
“\- Wtf were those announcers? Some really poorly masked Texas hate all night Please don't take this as dooming, because I truly believe teams grow and change week to week.”
“I don’t think ND is good enough to win a natty. They may be top 10 but that’s probably about it. they basically made it a force in for ND. Join a conference or win games to earn it this year.”
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 | Clemson | 1.9× | 202 | |
| 2 | Ohio State | 1.8× | 284 | |
| 3 | Notre Dame | 1.8× | 193 | |
| 4 | Georgia | 1.7× | 264 | |
| 5 | Oregon | 1.6× | 199 | |
| 6 | Nebraska | 1.6× | 94 | |
| 7 | Iowa State | 1.6× | 57 | |
| 8 | Michigan | 1.5× | 173 | |
| 9 | Indiana | 1.4× | 170 | |
| 10 | Miami | 1.4× | 176 | |
| 11 | Alabama | 1.3× | 223 | |
| 12 | Texas | 1.3× | 230 | |
| 13 | LSU | 1.2× | 158 | |
| 14 | Boise State | 1.2× | 26 | |
| 15 | Michigan State | 1.1× | 30 | |
35 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.