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The Boise State rivalryIdaho: the fanbase's identity shifting.our read

Big Sky · Kibbie Dome · 16,000 · 9,015 avg in 2026

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetvs Abilene Christian · our model 46% Idaho · a number, not a pick

LastL 17–23 vs Lamar · Sat Sep 12 · Joshua Wood 205 pass yds, 50 rush yds, 1 TD

Nextvs Abilene Christian · Sat Sep 19 · 4 pm ET · Kibbie Dome · series 1-0 · Game preview

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

The mood around Idaho has soured.

Fanbase belief
Souring
43/100 · 738 mentions
~ our read
Grounding
running on emotion
0% cite a stat · 8% typical ✓ counted
~ our read
Explore all 2 corners of the fanbase ↓
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identity shift

Idaho's fanbase shift signals FCS shift.

Paul Petrino enters his fourth season at Idaho with a 4-8 losing record, navigating a program that once dominated I-AA but now rebuilds in the Sun Belt with deep institutional.

The jury's still out.

The Pulse on Idaho

Live · Wk 2026-01 · 738 mentions · medium confidence
43
baseline · first week of signal
738 mentions this week · conversation velocity

What moved it — last 14 days

— Awaiting next signal window
"The Kibbie Dome" — Idaho fanbase · recurring line
The Fever Year

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

Cr/CFB
BBluesky
YYouTube
3 outlets & communities talking

What little we hear

Only 2 cohort(s) cleared the signal floor this week, so we won’t stage a split we can’t back. Here’s the honest read:

National take−0.12
Millennials−0.14

How Idaho fans actually talk real · top-upvoted

Rr/CFBthe room

Let \#15 Texas scraping by Kansas with a last second field goal distract you from Illinois beating \#6 Wisconsin on a last second field goal.

▲ 2k ▼open ↗

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

What this fanbase keeps coming back to our read · topic model

recent results
49%
fan energy
22%
where the program is headed
11%
the schedule
11%
offense
3%

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

63 mentions · 3 sources · week 2026-01. 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 readIdaho fans are split right down the middle, with almost nothing concrete behind it yet.

backed by facts
0% cited a stat or resultleague 8%
the mood
42% optimistic42% down

✓ counted We read 52 posts from Idaho fans this week.

Fanbase health · Idaho

Idaho's fanbase is growing — 66 of 100.

Loud (166 weighted voices in the latest week) and middling on the field (4-8 last season, 0-3 so far).

On the field — 4-8 last season, 0-3 so far57
How loud — 166 weighted voices in the latest week74

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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