Arizona State

4-4

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Arizona State lost 20-27 at BYU and is 4-4.

Fan mood in the week of the BYU game: middle of the pack

Fan mood in each Arizona State 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.

sourerbrighterat Texas A&M L 20-48all invs Kansas W 24-17middle of the packvs Baylor L 19-55on the sour sidevs Hawai'i W 30-12on the sour sideat Texas Tech L 25-53middle of the packvs Kansas State W 28-17middle of the packat BYU L 20-27middle of the packsourerbrighterSep 12at Texas A&ML 20-48all inSep 19vs KansasW 24-17middle of the packOct 3vs BaylorL 19-55on the sour sideOct 10vs Hawai'iW 30-12on the sour sideOct 17at Texas TechL 25-53middle of the packOct 24vs Kansas StateW 28-17middle of the packOct 31at BYUL 20-27middle of the pack
  • W 70-7 vs Morgan State
  • L 20-48 at Texas A&M
  • W 24-17 vs Kansas
  • L 19-55 vs Baylor
  • W 30-12 vs Hawai'i
  • L 25-53 at Texas Tech
  • W 28-17 vs Kansas State
  • L 20-27 at BYU
  • Next: vs Colorado, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first.

Since the last game

Arizona State lost 20-27 at BYU.

The whole BYU game

Before Colorado

The playoff simulation gives Arizona State a 64% chance at home against Colorado on Saturday, Nov 7.

In the playoff simulation, the Colorado game has a bowl on it for Arizona State.

Colorado game on Now

What the Colorado game is worth

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Arizona State 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

5 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

This is not the type of situation that you have when a runner steps out of bounds where you can continue in action
Pereira · On3the day after Arizona State's 2026 game against BYU
This is not the type of situation that you have when the runner steps out of bounds where you can give him continuing action
Pereira · FOX Sportsthe day of the 20-27 game
You can give a recovery, but you can’t give an advance unless we’ve come up with a new rule here, which I’m not too sure that you can really do
Pereira · FOX Sportsthe day of the 20-27 game

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The argumentThe one thing this fanbase can't agree on, with receipts.

Inside the fanbase: all 12 corners

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The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.17
Local
Most bought-in cohort
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Coldest corner+0.03
National take
Coolest cohort

From the team’s own coverage

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All 12 corners of the fanbase

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National take+0.03 to Local+0.17

Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
32%
recent results
21%
where the program is headed
11%
offense
7%
the coaching staff
6%

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

week 9. 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.
ArgumentsRecurring arguments this fanbase keeps returning to.

What fans are saying

player performanceEarly signal — few voices

fans believe Boley struggles with accuracy

I don't think you quite comprehend how bad our O-Line is, and how mediocre Boley is. This isn't a shock to anyone who has watched ASU this year.

This is such a bad look. I’m nowhere near quitting on Kenny but as a qb guru… getting this Boley kid and this being the product on offense… horrendous

Based on 2 comments from 2 posters across 2 threads · Oct 11, 2026 · via CFB

player performanceOne fan's take

One fan believes Keene could turn things around

I legitimately think if Keene was QB1 this might have been our first loss of the season

Keene + Eusebio is getting my fork up. If we can get a real WR rhythm between Eusebio, Harris, and Miller we might start cooking

Based on 3 comments from 1 poster across 3 threads · Oct 17, 2026 · via CFB

recruiting resultOne fan's take

One fan believes key units lack talent

O-line sucks, secondary sucks, the talent just isn’t there right now.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 17, 2026 · via CFB

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scheme identityOne fan's take that season

One fan thinks the new playbook is working well

This is genuinely the most balanced and diverse offense of the Dilly era. I love it

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 6, 2026 · via CFB

player performanceOne fan's take that season

One fan thinks the secondary gives up too many big plays

Arizona State - our secondary. The amount of games we've lost to a slant that went for 70 yards is unfathomable

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Jul 14, 2026 · via CFB

coaching decisionOne fan's take that season

One fan thinks the team struggles with play-calling near the goal line

PLEASE FIX THE GOAL LINE OFFENSE HOLY FUCK

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 27, 2025 · via CFB

Who they talk aboutThe people this fanbase names more than anyone else does.
Who they talk about Against the field · 2026 season

The names this fanbase says more than anyone else does — players, coaches, the places they keep coming back to. Not slang: these are the people carrying the conversation.

Cutter Boley
×385.3 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Cutter Boley×385.3
Kenny Dillingham×691.1
Mikey Keene×883.0
Jake Fette×1009.2

“NIL era has cutter boley making 2 mil a year lol”

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Fans on Cutter Boley
  1. Imagine if Reed Harris had someone not named Cutter Boley throwing him the ball, dude would be a Heisman candidate
  2. Cutter Boley and has his consciousness randomly Freaky Friday’d into Boley’s body. This is the
  3. Cutter Boley is the Josh Allen of Trenton Bourget’s
  4. I cannot wait for Cutter Boley to be benched. ASU will be unwatchable until they pull the trigger
  5. Cutter Boley went into Saturday "the top passer in the Big 12" when I know he got a lot of those
What they're calledThe slang the sport reaches for about this program more than most.
What the sport calls them 2026 season · from Words

How often college football reaches for these watchlist words about Arizona State — against the average FBS program, or against their own usual rate — said by rival fans and national media as readily as by their own people.

  • “aura”1.4×more than the average program · #13 of 48
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Rivalry wordsNumbers from Words for this program and its tier-1 rival, staged side by side.
What the sport says about this rivalry 2026 season · from Words

The watchlist words in play for this rivalry, Arizona State vs. Arizona, staged head to head. A number is how much a program uses that word against the average FBS program — above or below 1.0× — not raw volume, and not a claim about who says it about whom.

Arizona State Arizona
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Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Doomers
Optimism
32nd
Joy
52nd
Anger
80th
Doom
58th
Sarcasm
19th
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season vocabulary

2026nil
nilboleyoregonindianafloridawon
Mack is gonna cost us a lot in nil to keep
2025defense
defensesimsjeffleavittfieldkicker
Cool, so we played no defense that drive.
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