This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/CaptainScuttlebottom on 2023-09-17 19:49:48.
Last night, prime time started at 10pm and finished around 2AM, which was great because it distracted everyone from KU struggling with Nevada. As per usual, I scraped the game thread for all the comments, and I thought I’d share my findings with y’all.
In addition to helping out KU and being wildly entertaining, the game was also great because it resulted in the biggest, juiciest game thread of the season so far – with over 50k total comments, it nearly doubled up the second place game thread of FSU vs. LSU (which had 26,206 total comments at the time I scraped the data). Interestingly, this also gives Colorado 3 of the top 6 game threads of the year so far, (Nebraska @ Colorado is #4, with 25.2k comments, and Colorado @ TCU is #6 at 23.4k). When it comes to getting eyeballs, Sanders is taking every other coach in the league to Prime Academy (except he’s actually giving them an education this time).
I’ve got a nifty little automated function to create infographic-style reports on game threads – here’s what it looks like for this matchup:
IMAGE: Game Thread Summary
Shocking pretty much nobody, 95%+ of the comments were left by neutral flairs / unflaired users. As the charts show, the game was relatively free of complaints about the refs, but pretty heavy with the swears. Here are some additional fun facts:
- I did some additional calculations, and found that 7,573 of the total comments contained a swear word, or about 14.5%.
- Deion himself was mentioned by name (or by his nickname, or by a badly misspelled attempt at either) 2,832 times, or about 5.4% of all comments. I made sure to exclude Shedeur-specific mentions from this count, since he played fantastic and was mentioned a ton as well.
- Who were the neutral flairs in the thread? 11,457 of the comments came from the unflaired, probably unwashed masses. The rest of the top 10 breaks down as follows:
| Primary Flair | N Comments |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 2,161 |
| Ohio State | 1,856 |
| Florida State | 1,787 |
| Michigan | 1,654 |
| Oregon | 1,458 |
| Nebraska | 1,198 |
| Alabama | 1,146 |
| Oklahoma | 1,108 |
| USC | 1,012 |
| Notre Dame | 977 |
Finally, since it was a particularly heated game thread, I thought I’d take a look at the downvoted comments. I filtered all the comments to look at only those that ended with a score < 1, and then counted by primary flair. The results are below:
| Primary Flair | N Downvoted Comments |
|---|---|
| Unflaired | 804 |
| Colorado | 126 |
| Georgia | 70 |
| Ohio State | 66 |
| Michigan | 55 |
| Oregon | 54 |
| Florida State | 53 |
| Texas | 44 |
| Nebraska | 43 |
| /r/CFB | 36 |
| Oklahoma | 32 |
The meaning of these findings is clear: if you’re a Buffs hater, it definitively proves that Colorado fans are toxic, and are clogging up the game threads with their obnoxious bragging and shit talking. On the other hand, if you’re a Buffs fan, it obviously proves how toxic and jealous r/CFB is towards y’all, and how mad the haters were to watch Coach Prime win yet again.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you’d like me to look at anything else in this data / make any more graphs, or if you’d like to get your hands on the data yourself.