Old Dominion

2-7

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Old Dominion has lost three in a row and is 2-7.

Old Dominion is 1-5 in the Sun Belt.

  • W 31-10 vs Norfolk State
  • L 21-44 at Virginia Tech
  • L 17-20 vs East Carolina
  • L 20-46 vs James Madison
  • L 10-42 at Georgia State
  • W 10-3 at App State
  • L 15-23 vs Georgia Southern
  • L 0-26 at Louisiana Tech
  • L 23-36 vs Marshall
  • Next: at Coastal Carolina, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first.

Since the last game

Old Dominion lost 23-36 vs Marshall.

The whole Marshall game

Before Coastal Carolina

Ricky Rahne is 2-2 against Coastal Carolina as a head coach.

The playoff simulation gives Old Dominion a 39% chance at Coastal Carolina on Saturday, Nov 7.

Ricky Rahne's seat is the 4th-hottest of 132 in the hot-seat model.

Coastal Carolina game on Now

What the Coastal Carolina game is worth

Old Dominion'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 A Sea of Red (ODU)

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

Fan chatter this season

Roaring

The loudest night was the 20-46 loss to James Madison.

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

Inside the fanbase: all 4 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
UUnderdog Dynasty
CCampus paper
AA Sea of Red (ODU)
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner−0.01
Die-hards
Least sour cohort
vs
Coldest corner−0.14
National take
Most skeptical cohort

How Old Dominion fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

Old Dominion (Norfolk, VA) is still closer to Berkeley than some of Cal's conference opponents

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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.

From the team’s own coverage

All 4 corners of the fanbase

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positive
National take−0.14 to Die-hards−0.01

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

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
36%
recent results
20%
where the program is headed
13%
the schedule
8%
the coaching staff
6%

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

week 10. 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.
Doomers
Optimism
25th
Joy
6th
Anger
79th
Doom
98th
Sarcasm
45th
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
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