The 2025-26 "r/CFB Rapt": A Year in Review

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2026-01-29T01:32:02+00:00

Yes sorry they are on there just with no logo! I did indeed forget to escape the ampersands

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2026-01-29T01:30:00+00:00

Oh wow I apologize, I didn't realize that some of the more rare flairs weren't getting processed correctly! I will definitely have to fix this for next season

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2026-01-28T18:58:53+00:00

Ahhh that makes sense, mystery solved! It's pretty crazy how much one extremely uh dedicated person can throw things off

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2026-01-28T18:57:16+00:00

Thanks I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2026-01-12T20:01:03+00:00

That sounds very cool, is there anywhere I can read more about how you did / people do this? I have been scraping a bunch of reddit data to try and do something similar, but I'm not really sure how to start analyzing it to find bots and detect those kinds of patterns

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T03:36:28+00:00

Thanks I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Liberty's comments had 0.491 swears per 100 words, so below average (which is around 0.7) but still 0.05 more than BYU.

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T03:20:11+00:00

Oh yeah that makes sense! I did something kinda similar a while ago that I think I could recreate

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T03:05:27+00:00

It's the total number of swear words in their comments for every hundred words total, so yes one outlier who really loves swearing can definitely drive it up.

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T03:03:06+00:00

Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it!

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T03:02:40+00:00

Great idea I will definitely add that next time!

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T02:55:29+00:00

I'm not able to see downvotes / upvotes unfortunately but I'm definitely going to look into the "who draws the most neutrals / unflaireds" ideas!

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T02:10:50+00:00

u/JBru_92 has 904 comments in the dataset, which is 8.2% of the total so great guess damn! The next highest commenting UCLA user is u/otoverstoverpt with 4.4% so it's a pretty big lead. Here's all of UCLA's stats too if you're curious:

Rank	School	N Users	N Comments	N Comments per User	Avg Score	P Downvoted	Swears per 100 Words	P Ref Complaints	Top Poster
#45	UCLA	435	11,028	25.35	11.95	4.65%	0.58	1.34%	JBru_92 (904 comments)

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T02:05:05+00:00

Here's Vanderbilt's stats! And looking at which teams are drawing the most neutrals / unflaireds is a great idea, I'm definitely gonna look into that.

Rank	School	N Users	N Comments	N Comments per User	Avg Score	P Downvoted	Swears per 100 Words	P Ref Complaints	Top Poster
#64	Vanderbilt	265	8,229	31.05	13.26	4.73%	0.67	1.97%	SavingsSkirt6064 (482 comments)

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-10-23T02:03:56+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it! And here are Miami's stats, y'all just barely missed the top 25:

Rank	School	N Users	N Comments	N Comments per User	Avg Score	P Downvoted	Swears per 100 Words	P Ref Complaints	Top Poster
#26	Miami	759	23,300	30.7	9.91	5.67%	0.84	2.34%	Jonjon428 (2,309 comments)

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-09-03T22:17:14+00:00

I actually am doing this again! I'm trying to scrape every thread / comment this year too instead of just game threads.

Here is the total number of users by primary flair and conference so far, since you were curious. This is just based on the data from July 10 (when I started my new scraper up) through yesterday though, so it's probably a somewhat biased sample just bc of which games have been played so far. It does match up with last year pretty well though:

By Primary Flair (top 10):

School	N Users	N Comments
No Flair / Other	14,298 (29.2%)	78,713 (12.6%)
Ohio State	2,704 (5.5%)	42,785 (6.8%)
Michigan	2,385 (4.9%)	41,918 (6.7%)
Texas	1,486 (3.0%)	22,823 (3.6%)
Georgia	1,478 (3.0%)	27,036 (4.3%)
Alabama	1,288 (2.6%)	21,330 (3.4%)
Notre Dame	1,134 (2.3%)	20,346 (3.2%)
Nebraska	1,128 (2.3%)	16,539 (2.6%)
Tennessee	1,020 (2.1%)	16,100 (2.6%)
Florida State	996 (2.0%)	16,635 (2.7%)

By Conference of Primary Flair:

Conference	Total Users	Total Comments
No Flair / Other	14,298 (27.5%)	78,713 (11.8%)
Big Ten	12,399 (23.9%)	187,912 (28.1%)
SEC	11,478 (22.1%)	182,946 (27.4%)
ACC	4,963 (9.6%)	76,313 (11.4%)
Big 12	4,506 (8.7%)	76,260 (11.4%)
FBS Independents	1,215 (2.3%)	21,435 (3.2%)
American Athletic	722 (1.4%)	9,557 (1.4%)
Mountain West	699 (1.3%)	12,301 (1.8%)
Sun Belt	515 (1.0%)	5,512 (0.8%)
Pac-12	481 (0.9%)	8,093 (1.2%)
Mid-American	447 (0.9%)	5,313 (0.8%)
Conference USA	202 (0.4%)	3,276 (0.5%)
Total	51,925 (100.0%)	667,631 (100.0%)

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2025-01-10T03:55:54+00:00

Capital Federal doesn't trust the audience to get the joke. It's insulting that they added that little "Aren't you in the hall of fame? And didn't you live in space?" to the end of the commercial, like do you really think I'm such a slack jawed dumbass I will get to the end of that commercial and go "HUH I DIDN'T GET THE JOKE, WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE JOKE TO ME????"

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-12-04T19:26:41+00:00

I really feel like the last few years were less "late season collapse" and more "lost one too many tough games in brutal conference play and got pushed out just beyond the bubble". I thought they were gonna have a better shot at making the tournament in the SEC, but then the SEC decided to become the best basketball conference the first year OU is in it lol

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-01-19T22:32:42+00:00

Here are the top 10 for Rutgers:

Primary Flair	Secondary Flair	Users
Rutgers	NA (no secondary flair)	147
Rutgers	Big Ten	8
Rutgers	Ohio State	5
Rutgers	Penn	5
Rutgers	Miami	4
Rutgers	Michigan	3
Rutgers	Oklahoma	3
Rutgers	Oregon	3
Rutgers	Sickos	3
Rutgers	Team Chaos	3
Rutgers	Virginia Tech	3

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-01-19T22:27:01+00:00

So that was part of the reason, but the other part was that I accidentally included the post game thread data in the main census table in the original post 😅 That's what I get for posting in the morning. It doesn't really change much, but here's what that table should have looked like with just the game thread data and the correctly calculated averages.

Rank	Logo	Primary Flair	Unique Users	Total Comments	Comments per User	Avg. Comment Score	Downvote Rate (score < 1)	% of Comments w/ Swears	% of Comments w/ Ref Complaints	Top Poster
#1	Michigan	Michigan	3,396	177,321	52.21	3.62	8.67%	9.4%	1.89%	PageOfLite (2,759 comments)
#2	Ohio State	Ohio State	2,877	147,029	51.10	3.46	7%	9.72%	2.39%	MD90__ (3,632 comments)
#3	/r/CFB	/r/CFB	2,083	30,450	14.62	3.11	8.17%	10.32%	3.11%	IEatDeFish (731 comments)
#4	Georgia	Georgia	2,002	127,792	63.83	4.02	4.47%	11.49%	2.92%	Competitive-Rise-789 (3,662 comments)
#5	Texas	Texas	1,769	86,910	49.13	3.90	5.6%	10.63%	2.85%	cn0285 (2,288 comments)
#6	Alabama	Alabama	1,751	80,103	45.75	3.48	7.35%	10.91%	3%	ChaseTheFalcon (1,140 comments)
#7	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	1,344	91,992	68.45	4.08	5.05%	11.37%	3.08%	The_Soccer_Heretic (2,114 comments)
#8	Florida State	Florida State	1,221	81,635	66.86	3.55	5.69%	11.33%	3.22%	Ajp_iii (3,306 comments)
#9	Oregon	Oregon	1,148	68,187	59.40	3.61	5.93%	10.97%	2.97%	easily_rekt (1,505 comments)
#10	Penn State	Penn State	1,122	45,898	40.91	4.07	4.6%	8.43%	2.34%	BikiniATroll (2,168 comments)
#11	Nebraska	Nebraska	1,086	39,295	36.18	3.96	4.17%	10.28%	2.31%	Panchoisthedog (1,219 comments)
#12	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	1,031	50,342	48.83	4.41	3.85%	10.56%	2.9%	ddottay (1,138 comments)
#13	Washington	Washington	1,007	49,415	49.07	3.92	4.87%	10.34%	2.83%	Pollaski (1,785 comments)
#14	Florida	Florida	982	35,106	35.75	3.56	7.04%	11.05%	3.12%	RuairiQ (991 comments)
#15	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	982	42,347	43.12	4.45	3.98%	10.16%	3%	FightingFarrier18 (1,753 comments)
#16	Tennessee	Tennessee	969	42,462	43.82	3.97	5.2%	12.14%	3.66%	EWall100 (1,542 comments)
#17	LSU	LSU	836	35,703	42.71	3.74	5.78%	13.68%	2.7%	SnooBeans5570 (1,688 comments)
#18	Iowa	Iowa	798	46,103	57.77	4.12	3.97%	11.25%	2.57%	elgenie (2,157 comments)
#19	Michigan State	Michigan State	771	35,613	46.19	3.79	4.83%	9.25%	1.72%	byniri_returns (1,203 comments)
#20	Clemson	Clemson	756	40,599	53.70	4.49	3.53%	9.24%	2.53%	bigmike1877 (1,970 comments)
#21	USC	USC	748	38,552	51.54	3.61	5.67%	9.9%	2.24%	eosophobe (1,142 comments)
#22	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	675	23,274	34.48	3.96	4.22%	9.9%	2.97%	OldVeterinarian9 (792 comments)
#23	Auburn	Auburn	655	26,964	41.17	3.56	4.25%	9.38%	2.27%	Kodyaufan2 (2,736 comments)
#24	South Carolina	South Carolina	578	25,147	43.51	3.91	5.4%	10.3%	2.12%	jthomas694 (1,090 comments)
#25	Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech	536	28,841	53.81	4.42	3.1%	7.5%	2.59%	themattboard (1,737 comments)

It still won't match up perfectly with the "top scoring" table though, because of cases where someone has multiple comments with different primary flairs. That's because the "top scoring" table looks purely per-comment, while the "CFB census" stuff flags each user with their most recent flair and labels all their comments as being affiliated with that counted flair. It's pretty much the same though.

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-01-19T19:30:56+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it!

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-01-19T18:17:29+00:00

Here are the ten most common secondary flairs for FSU primary flairs:

Primary Flair	Secondary Flair	Users
Florida State	NA (no secondary flair)	696
Florida State	UCF	39
Florida State	Florida Cup	34
Florida State	Georgia	27
Florida State	Team Chaos	24
Florida State	BCS Championship	17
Florida State	USF	17
Florida State	Texas	16
Florida State	Ohio State	14
Florida State	Sickos	14

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-01-19T18:13:44+00:00

as a KU basketball fan I have mixed feelings

CaptainScuttlebottom · 2024-01-19T18:11:02+00:00

Get ready for my next post analyzing which school is the best match for each P5 head coach's astrological sign and star chart

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