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What Happened to DJ Lagway? Latest Injury Update After Baylor QB Is Carried to Locker Room in Week 1 vs. Auburn - Yahoo Sportsour read4 Takeaways: Baylor Releases Depth Chart vs. Auburn - 2 Veterans in Position Battles? - Yahoo Sportsour readThe Texas Tech rivalry

Big 12 · Dave Aranda, year 7 (37-38) · McLane Stadium · 45,140 · 38,642 avg in 2026

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#34 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #52 (+4.9) · FPI #35
The marketBaylor by 19.5vs Louisiana Tech · our model 78% Baylor · a number, not a pick

LastW 44–3 vs Prairie View A&M · Sat Sep 12 · Nate Bennett 301 pass yds, 2 TD, 2 INT

Nextvs Louisiana Tech · Sat Sep 19 · 4 pm ET · McLane Stadium · Baylor by 19.5 · series 5-1, won the last 2 · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

The read on Baylor depends entirely on who you ask.

Dave Aranda's year 7 (2026): 1-1, behind Matt Rhule's 3-9 in the same spot.

Baylor fans are angry.

I definitely like that Auburn has sewn elements on its unis.

▲ 3r/CFB

Actually a gross block just diving at a dudes knees

▲ 3r/CFB
✓ verbatim
belief held flatvs prior week
Fanbase belief
Mixed
49/100 · 201 mentions
~ our read
Grounding
about average
5% cite a stat · 6% typical ✓ counted
~ our read
Volatility
Chaotic
σ 23 pts
~ our read
The model
#34
CFB Zeitgeist · +4.9
✓ measured
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The Pulse on Baylor

Archive · Wk 2 · 201 mentions · medium confidence
49
Δ +0.0 vs last wk
201 mentions this week · conversation velocity

What moved it — last 14 days

— Awaiting next signal window
"Baptist Brigade" — Baylor fanbase · recurring line
46 mentions · sample growing
The Fever Year

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

Inside the fanbase — all 9 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
LLocked On
CCampus paper
SSic'em 365
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

One voice

+0.00whole-room sentiment · warm our read

Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.02 of each other — a rare consensus. The loudest voice in the room:

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Locked On

BIG 12 Squad - Week 1 Overreactions | What happened to Baylor?

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How Baylor fans actually talk real · top-upvoted

Rr/CFBthe room

Things fell apart when they couldn’t cheat anymore. Both with Connor Stallions and also when their coach couldn’t do extramarital affairs

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The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

The room, end to end

skeptical
buying in
Die-hards+0.09
Casuals+0.07

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
33%
where the program is headed
15%
recent results
15%
the coaching staff
11%
the schedule
6%

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

326 mentions · 7 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 checkmiddle of the pack

~ our readBaylor fans are down on the program, and they're backing it with about as much hard evidence as anyone.

backed by facts
5% cited a stat or resultleague 6%
the mood
18% optimistic38% down

✓ counted We read 201 posts from Baylor fans this week.

Forum Pulse

via Sic'em 365

Press Pulse

13 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

It was one of those late-night texts where he was trying to motivate me, and I was trying to motivate him
Coleton · On33 days after Baylor's 2026 opener
I write that at the top of my page every single day because he drove that through me
Coleton · On33 days after the 16–17 opener
He’s going for today, and we’ll be day to day after that. We’ll see after today how Tuesday looks and Wednesday and so forth. Right now, DJ’s a day-to-day guy.
Aranda · Heartland College Sports2 days after the 16–17 opener

Five Lenses

What people are saying right now

Radio, beat writers & editorial7 posts
Espn CFB
“Baylor QB DJ Lagway will not play Saturday against Prairie View A&M after suffering an ankle injury, with Nate Bennett making his first start, sources told…”
3d ago
Diehard fan boards16 posts
Sic'em 365
“Check out some of our photos from the first game of the Fan First Era.”
1d ago
The broader fanbase5 posts
r/CFB
“The offense probably should have had an easier time of things, but 44-3 is a good result. This D pretty much shut PV down after their very first drive. I…”
2d ago
News & campus coverage12 posts
Baylor Campus
“By Giselle Lee | Staff Writer As the sun set and the lights dimmed on a hot Saturday evening, the Class of 2030 charged into McLane Stadium to usher in the…”
1d ago
CFB analyst takes6 posts
Bluesky · @chrisvannini.com
“Baylor played a good game overall, but so many Key Moments went against them. It's a game of inches.”
1w ago

Fanbase health · Baylor

Baylor's fanbase is growing — 62 of 100.

Audible (46 weighted voices in the latest week) and middling on the field (5-7 last season, 1-1 so far).

On the field — 5-7 last season, 1-1 so far61
How loud — 46 weighted voices in the latest week63

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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ArgumentsRecurring arguments this fanbase keeps returning to.

What fans are saying

Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim

injury availabilityOne fan's take that season

One fan believes Hosea Wheeler's return strengthens Baylor's defensive line

With Hosea Wheeler ready to play, there’s something concrete to get excited about on defense heading into the season for the Bears.

Based on 1 comment across 1 thread · Aug 11, 2026 · via Baylor University Football

PodcastsThe shows this fanbase actually listens to.

From the booth

a recent episode about this team
The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent free · r/cfb fan posts, last season
Baylor fans this offseason 35% of posts bring up another team▼2pp quieter#38 of 70 saltiest · mostly about Auburn
Who Baylor fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Auburn16%
  2. Texas9%
  3. Houston3%
  4. Florida3%
  5. BYU3%
share of Baylor’s football posts that mention each team
Baylor lives rent-free in
  1. Auburn23%
  2. Florida6%
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up Baylor
Who they talk aboutThe people this fanbase names more than anyone else does.
Who they talk about 498 posts and articles vs 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.

Dave Aranda
×365.2 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Dave Aranda×365.2n=57
Hosea Wheeler×2411.4n=32
Joe Klanderman×890.4n=16
Traevon Mitchell×39.8n=11

“Baylor Head Coach Dave Aranda Press Conference Updates”

board/Baylor University Football · fan post, verbatim
Fans on Dave Aranda (8 examples)
  1. He wishes he was as good as Dave Aranda. OSU would win 10 championships with Aranda
  2. I'll say this here too: Typical Dave Aranda, you would think we'd be just happy with a win, this should have been 70+ points
  3. **Dave Aranda** | **Head Coach** | | Khenon Hall | Assoc. HC/ RBs | | Joe Klanderman | DC / Ss
  4. Dave Aranda Press Conference Updates (Prairie View A&M)
  5. Head coach Dave Aranda provided an injury update on quarterback DJ Lagway during his Monday press conf
  6. Recapping head coach Dave Aranda's Monday press conference.
  7. Is hard to be a Dave Aranda fan but this lost was not his fault. If you know anything about Dave Aranda he's
  8. \*\*Dave Aranda\*\* | \*\*Head Coach\*\* | | Khenon Hall | Assoc. HC/ RBs | | Joe Klanderman |
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Fanbase Voice 1,185 fan mentions
Measured
Optimism
59th
Joy
37th
Anger
10th
Doom
5th
Sarcasm
76th
vs the 94 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season Vocabulary

2026AUBURN
auburnfalllagwaycampfall camppractice
Don't worry about auburn's defense when the Baylor offense stops itself
2025DEFENSE
defenseoffensearizonabadtouchdownfield
Might have the worst defense of all time
Defining termsThe handful of terms that carried this season.
Words of the season how the conversation changed, year to year
2026
auburn×5.7fall×49.5lagway×3.6camp×102.9fall camp×94.9
2025
defense×2.6offense×2.9arizona×5.6bad×4.2touchdown×12.7
Fanbase clusterWhich other fanbases talk the way yours does.
Your Vocabulary Clustercluster 0
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