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Mountain West · Timmy Chang, year 5 (23-31) · Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex · 15,194 · 13,959 avg in 2026

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The model#76 CFB ZeitgeistSP+ #91 (-7.0) · FPI #103
The marketno line yetat Wyoming · our model 53% Hawai'i · a number, not a pick

LastW 29–19 vs New Mexico State · Sat Sep 12 · Elijah Palmer 1 sacks, 2 TFL, 5 tackles

Nextat Wyoming · Sat Sep 26 · 3 pm ET · War Memorial Stadium · series 12-17 · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

No consensus around Hawai'i right now — the fanbase is genuinely divided.

Timmy Chang's year 5 (2026): 1-2, behind Todd Graham's 5-7 in the same spot.

belief cooled ↓ 5.8vs prior week
Fanbase belief
Mixed
49/100 · 75 mentions
~ our read
Grounding
running on emotion
0% cite a stat · 6% typical ✓ counted
~ our read
Volatility
Chaotic
σ 29 pts
~ our read
The model
#76
CFB Zeitgeist · -0.6
✓ measured
Explore all 8 corners of the fanbase ↓
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identity shift

Hawai'i's fanbase shift signals Pacific-12 evolution.

Timmy Chang enters his fourth season with a 9-4 record, navigating a program identity defined by Pacific-island-football tradition and the challenge of sustaining momentum in the Mountain West.

The jury's still out.

The Pulse on Hawai'i

Archive · Wk 2 · 75 mentions · medium confidence
49
Δ -5.8 vs last wk
75 mentions this week · conversation velocity

What moved it — last 14 days

— Awaiting next signal window
"Go Bows" — Hawai'i fanbase · recurring line

Fanbase Signals

Cohort Divergence
0 pctSpread between sub-fanbase cohorts in the Pulse window.
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
SSportsHawaii
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

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

How Hawai'i fans actually talk real · top-upvoted

Rr/CFBthe room

Where are the pac-12 refs when you need them?!?!?

▲ 1.3k ▼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+0.33
Casuals+0.14

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
37%
recent results
18%
where the program is headed
15%
the roster
7%
the coaching staff
6%

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

231 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 checklight on evidence

~ our readHawai'i fans are down on the program, with almost nothing concrete behind it yet.

backed by facts
0% cited a stat or resultleague 6%
the mood
20% optimistic35% down

✓ counted We read 75 posts from Hawai'i fans this week.

Forum Pulse

via SportsHawaii

Five Lenses

What people are saying right now

Radio, beat writers & editorial10 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
Diehard fan boards16 posts
SportsHawaii
“The three field goals and the D won this game with the turnovers. Good start offensively. Threw downfield. Rice used his speed to the outside. Confused NMSU D…”
1d ago
The broader fanbase12 posts
r/CFB
“Hey look, a college football game can be 3 hours long even with all the usual Hawaii weirdness without a million commercials.”
2d ago
CFB analyst takes6 posts
Bluesky · @sickoscommittee.org
“It's a tie game in Hawai'i to finish off your night 👀”
2d ago

Fanbase health · Hawai'i

Hawai'i's fanbase is growing — 61 of 100.

Loud (170 weighted voices in the latest week), winning on the field (9-4 last season, 1-2 so far), and not arguing about much.

On the field — 9-4 last season, 1-2 so far75
How loud — 170 weighted voices in the latest week75
How much they argue — not arguing about much35

3 of 3 signals · on-field reading uses last season until 4 games are in · 0–100, bands at 26 / 51 / 76

More in this tab

Who they talk aboutThe people this fanbase names more than anyone else does.
Who they talk about 249 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.

Micah Alejado
×244.8 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Micah Alejado×244.8n=85
Timmy Chang×736.0n=86
Dennis Thurman×158.9n=30
Cam Barfield×247.2n=20
Bjorn Jurgensen×2670.2n=48

“University of Hawaii Football • Re: *** The Official QB Micah Alejado Thread *** script script”

board/University of Hawaii Football · fan post, verbatim
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Fanbase Voice 657 fan mentions
Believers
Optimism
88th
Joy
66th
Anger
3rd
Doom
12th
Sarcasm
9th
vs the 94 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season Vocabulary

2026MILILANI
mililanikahukuhighalejadoballcamp
2025SCRIPT
scriptscript scriptmillionrulesnilstudent
University of Hawaii Football • Re: NIL $$$ script script
Defining termsThe handful of terms that carried this season.
Words of the season how the conversation changed, year to year
2026
mililani×16.1kahuku×10.6high×3.4alejado×2.9ball×7.1
2025
script×5.8script script×7.6million×27.0rules×12.1nil×4.9
Fanbase clusterWhich other fanbases talk the way yours does.
Your Vocabulary Clustercluster 0
with 63 other fanbases
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