“dooming”
Catastrophising about your own team, usually in-season and usually in public.
From the wider 'doomer' internet vocabulary.
How often it gets said
Daily mentions across the whole conversation corpus, smoothed over 7 days. A break in the line is a stretch where the word fell below the reporting floor — not a stretch where nobody said it.
Measured on 49 of the window’s 84 days.
- 1Sat Oct 3
- 2Sun Sep 20 · Texas beat UTSA 30-6
- 3Sun Sep 27
A day is attributed to a program only when that program held at least 1.75× the next program’s mentions, from 5+ separate posts. The game shown is that program’s result within a day of the peak. A day with no program named was a day nobody owned.
Who’s saying it
Share of the posts, articles and transcripts in the window that used the word, by kind of source. Counted per document, not per mention, so one long transcript that says it twenty times is one voice, not twenty.
- Reddit 98%
- beat writers and press 1%
What it sounds like
Real posts from the corpus, quoted verbatim. The community is shown; the username never is.
“You live in some delusional land. Coach Day is a good coach. He doesn't scape goat ever. He generally does coach speak to obfuscate and take the blame/insist they need to keep working.”
“The buckeyes have the 10th toughest schedule in the country as of today. They have two good road wins. Should have four, but don’t.”
Who it gets said about
2026 season, FBS programs. These are mentions that name a program — from rival fans and national media as readily as from their own people — so this is what the sport says about a program, not what that program’s fans say.
Too few programs reached the 25-mention floor for this word to rank them fairly — a leaderboard needs at least 8 qualifying programs. The word may well separate the sport sharply; there just isn’t enough of it per program yet.