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Big 12 · 2026 season

The story so far

West Virginia fans spent the season fixated on Zac Alley's defense, which turned a giddy 3-0 start into a losing streak and chants to fire him. Back-to-back narrow wins have them at 5-3, joking about Shreveport, relieved but skeptical.

From Reddit fan threads · through Wk 8 · Oct 19–25 · 5-3

Season misery
74Miserable
Worst week
98Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4
Best week
19Wk 3 · Sep 14–20
Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6: misery 80 (Despair) · 1-0Wk 2 · Sep 7–13: misery 80 (Despair) · 1-0Wk 3 · Sep 14–20: misery 19 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 4 · Sep 21–27: misery 76 (Miserable) · 0-1Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 98 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 6 · Oct 5–11: misery 97 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 7 · Oct 12–18: misery 77 (Miserable) · 1-0Wk 8 · Oct 19–25: misery 62 (Uneasy) · 1-0Wk 0Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long

  • From a non-existent secondary in Wk 1 to 'Fire Alley' chants in Wk 6, fans hammered Alley's defense all season, then grudgingly credited late stops and turnovers at TCU in Wk 8.

    “good offense, shit defense, defense got lucky today”

    ▲ 134Wk 8 · Oct 19–25

    Wk 2 · Sep 7–13 ›Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4 ›Wk 6 · Oct 5–11 ›
Kept coming up
Came and went

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. —Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1
  2. 62Wk 8 · Oct 19–251-0›
  3. 77Wk 7 · Oct 12–181-0›
  4. 97Wk 6 · Oct 5–110-1›
  5. 98Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4blowup game0-1›
  6. 76Wk 4 · Sep 21–270-1›
  7. 19Wk 3 · Sep 14–201-0›
  8. 80Wk 2 · Sep 7–131-0›
  9. 80Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 61-0›
  10. —Wk 0 · Aug 24–30