“natty”
The national championship, as a thing to win or to have won.
Long-standing college-football shorthand, older than most of the rest of this list.
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 84 of the window’s 84 days.
- 1Sun Sep 13
- 2Sun Sep 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.
Most of the posts, articles and transcripts using “natty” come from Reddit (78%), then YouTube (18%).
- Reddit 78%
- YouTube 18%
- podcasts and radio 2%
- beat writers and press 1%
- message boards 1%
What it sounds like
Real posts from the corpus, quoted verbatim. The community is shown; the username never is.
“Neither do I. Outside of JJ, this team is lowkey bad, probably the worst team we've had since Day took over.”
“You're shifting the goal posts. The assertion is that coaches get poached from GA. You say it hasn't hit him yet because we don't have a "dynasty" (subjective term). This has nothing to do with poaching.”
“I've just started to listen to Brooks Austin, the flim guy network, opinion on the play calling. Some games the calls and execution look like we're elite and others are just meh. Oh well. If we win a natty, awesome.”
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.
| # | Program | Vs. the average program | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | 2.3× | |
| 2 | Georgia | 1.9× | |
| 3 | Oregon | 1.9× | |
| 4 | Clemson | 1.8× | |
| 5 | Notre Dame | 1.7× | |
| 6 | Iowa State | 1.7× | |
| 7 | Michigan | 1.5× | |
| 8 | Texas | 1.5× | |
| 9 | Indiana | 1.4× | |
| 10 | Miami | 1.4× | |
| 11 | Nebraska | 1.4× | |
| 12 | Michigan State | 1.4× | |
| 13 | Alabama | 1.3× | |
| 14 | LSU | 1.2× | |
| 15 | Boise State | 1.1× | |
54 FBS programs cleared the 25-mention floor for this word. Ranked by over-index, not raw volume — raw volume just ranks how much a program gets talked about.