Marshall

5-3

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Marshall beat Old Dominion 36-23 and is 5-3.

Marshall is 2-2 in the Sun Belt.

  • L 0-45 at Penn State
  • W 28-26 vs Middle Tennessee
  • W 30-24 at Missouri State
  • W 36-35 vs Gardner-Webb
  • L 17-45 at James Madison
  • L 21-27 vs Coastal Carolina
  • W 20-13 vs South Alabama
  • W 36-23 at Old Dominion
  • Next: at Georgia Southern, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first. The three losses came by 45, 28 and 6.

Since the last game

Marshall won 36-23 at Old Dominion.

The whole Old Dominion game

Then and now

Marshall matched last season's five wins in eight games, its fastest since 2013.

Before Georgia Southern

Clay Helton is 2-2 against Marshall as a head coach.

The playoff simulation gives Marshall a 46% chance at Georgia Southern on Saturday, Nov 7.

In the playoff simulation, the Georgia Southern game has the Sun Belt race on it for Marshall.

Georgia Southern game on Now

What the Georgia Southern game is worth

Marshall's game threads have not carried enough talk for a fan mood read this season.

Fan mood, week by week

Mood over time

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

What the message boards say

Message boards

Via HerdFans

What the reporters say

What reporters say

26 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

The momentum coming out of that and our confidence level, it’s like a totally different team right now.
Gibson · Marshallparthenon2 days before Marshall's 2026 game against Old Dominion
Right now, I can’t tell you who’s going to be the starter. They’re going to compete every day
Gibson · Marshallparthenon2 days before the Old Dominion game
They’ve all ran reps with the ones this week, so we got a couple more days to evaluate that before we have to make a decision.
Gibson · Marshallparthenon2 days before the Old Dominion game

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Fan chatterThe loudest night of the season and what a usual night looks like.

Fan chatter this season

Firestorm

The loudest night was the 20-13 win over South Alabama.

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

Inside the fanbase: all 7 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
UUnderdog Dynasty
CCampus paper
HHerdFans
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

One voice

+0.25Whole-fanbase sentiment · warm

Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.02 of each other — a rare consensus. The most upvoted post:

GGoogle NewsBeat · article

Jordan Marshall’s struggles a mystery as Michigan season hits final stretch - MLive.com

news.google.com →

How Marshall fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

GG USA You know you just watched a classic when the top highlight was an open field tackle🔥

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One of the crowd’s most upvoted takes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

Every fan group, end to end

negative
0
positive
Millennials+0.24 to National take+0.26

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

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
37%
recent results
22%
where the program is headed
12%
the schedule
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.
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Believers
Optimism
89th
Joy
96th
Anger
10th
Doom
69th
Sarcasm
71st
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
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