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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/CaptainScuttlebottom on 2023-08-05 22:24:03.

I saw some people wondering exactly how big of a spike in activity we saw yesterday as everything went to hell, so I scraped the comments from every (I think) thread posted since August 1 that’s still up on r/CFB. This does include removed / deleted comments, but I can only see the “[REMOVED]” text, and not the actual thing they posted. I started scraping the data late last night and finished early this morning, so all comments made up until about 11PM CST yesterday are included.

I ended up with 619 total threads and 111,261 comments from 14,050 commenters.

Here’s a graph showing the number of comments per hour since August 1:

GRAPH: COMMENTS PER HOUR

As you can see, there was some anticipatory bumps in the leadup, but everything really popped off after the Oregon / Washington -> B1G news became official on Friday morning. If we look at this on a per day basis, we can see that Friday saw 44,191 comments in total, which is a 109% increase from the day before and like a 1,000+% increase from a normal day in the offseason.

Day Total Comments
2023-08-01 13,814
2023-08-02 18,668
2023-08-03 21,120
2023-08-04 44,191
2023-08-05 13,468

I think their numbers are lower than mine overall for some reason (maybe they’re not getting every thread, missing removed / deleted stuff, or maybe it’s a timezone thing and their “days” are different from mine?) so I hesitate to compare them too much, but has good historical stats on the level of traffic. According to their data, 40k+ comments in a day is way more than we saw in previous offseasons’ re-alignment drama, and is almost on par with an actual game day. Like I said, though, when the last few days eventually do show up on subreddstats, I’m expecting their numbers to be lower than mine. I think mine are more exhaustive though.

Here are some other fun stats from the last few days of realignment madness on the sub:

Top 10 most used words:
Word Times Used
conference 12893
pac 10899
teams 8715
schools 8536
football 7168
oregon 6898
b1g 6424
money 5936
team 5595
sec 5491

“money” seems apt to me.

Here’s a word cloud:

WORD CLOUD: ALL COMMENTS

Top 15 most common primary flairs:
Primary Flair Comments
Unflaired Trash 9,288
Ohio State 4,782
Oregon 4,168
Michigan 3,906
Utah 3,585
Florida State 3,477
Washington 2,953
USC 2,706
Iowa State 2,602
Washington State 2,560
UCF 2,548
Oklahoma State 2,261
Oklahoma 2,216
BYU 2,184
Baylor 2,156

Ohio State, Michigan, etc. are always going to show up at the top of these metrics, but Wazzu / Washington / UCF / Utah fans were understandably popping off as well.

Top 20 most commonly used endings to the phrase "fuck ____"

I pulled out every time someone said something matching the pattern of "fuck ____", and counted which was most commonly used.

Fuck ____ Instances
it 76
you 38
off 37
USC 36
that 28
em 27
Larry Scott 22
you 22
them 19
up 17
me 12
cancer 11
themselves 9
yeah 9
Texas 8
no 8
man 7
that guy 7
this up 7
ESPN 6

I made this because I knew “Larry Scott” would show up. Just below the cutoff were “this sport”, “is going on”, and “you Larry Scott”, which I also enjoyed.

Top Posters

During this period, r/CFB averaged 7.92 comments per user. Furthermore, 5,210 of the people who commented (or about 37%) only left one comment in the whole dataset. However, some people went way above and beyond. Here are the top 10 most frequent posters in the dataset:

Author N Comments Primary Flair
InVodkaVeritas 541 Stanford
anti-torque 540 Oregon State
Maximum_Future_5241 406 Ohio State
PRMan99 341 USC
dmaul1978 320 West Virginia
thejus10 309 Florida State
WheatonsGonnaScore 298 Oregon
Jetski_Squirrel 286 Florida State
IlonggoProgrammer 281 Utah State
cosmicdave86 254 Utah

I still have this data, so let me know if you want it or have any other questions / graph you wanna see. Thanks for reading!