Well, fuck.

That's how I feel this morning, which is not too different from how I felt last night.

All the same, we do have some data to go over for the aftermath of the Ohio State game.

Let's start with something that won't shock anyone at all - we reached a season high for "fuck" and indeed, an all-time high for the four seasons that we've been going through this analysis now. No Ohio State game before yesterday, or indeed any game, can say that it resulted in 785 fucks in a game thread. That blows out the previous record, which was the Iowa game a couple week ago. It was also a season-high for shits given at 228, and that is also a high for shits given in the entire time that this analysis has been done. That won't shock anyone, or course - that was the most consequential game we have played in a long time, and I can only imagine the fucks and shits said aloud and off the record. I may have even contributed to the off the record total myself.....a lot. 

We fell short of the season high for "damn" at 123, but truth be told, with the blog tendency to go straight to "fuck", it's remarkable that on three separate occasions we managed to get more than 100 damns, but that's more times in one season than in any of the previous three, a tribute to just how invested we were and will likely continue to be in the Harbaugh era. 

We tied a season-high for "suck" as well, and it has become clear now more than ever that "suck" is truly one of those words we say in the moment, although much of the suck yesterday was on the officiating, and I wholeheartedly agree - the officiating did suck. That we kept the total as low as 32 was nothing short of a miracle, but then we threw "fuck" at the refs quite a bit too. 

Some advanced metrics:

FART Rate, which is Fucks Adjusted for Real Time, is a bit skewed because of the two overtimes, so it was down at 3.140 fucks per minute of airtime, which well short of Iowa's 3.956.

SHART Rate, or Shits Adjusted for Real Time, fell to the same problem - 0.912 shits per minute of airtime, which again is short of the 1.167 for the Iowa game. Actually, Iowa is the only time we went above 1 shit per minute, but that game totally deserved it. 

FAP Rate, or Fucks Per Play, was 4.876 - that honestly feels a bit low when I take my own feelings and statements into consideration, but then I was out of words by overtime and just staring in frightened, stunned silence....then in anguish.

The SQUIRT number, or the combined FART / SHART, was 3.443 - was just a little over half the ratio of the Wisconsin game, which was 6.492. It speaks to a lot of shit, or rather, a lot more shit in yesterday's game. Shit that we still have feelings about. 

Some 10,000 foot data - 

This was the third-largest game thread this season at 2,755 posts - only MSU and Iowa were larger. In that thread, there were 1,730 tracked words which comes out to an efficiency of 1.59, consistent with a loss by both the historic and modified scales. Not surprisingly, on a word-for-word basis, that was the most efficienct thread from a profanity standpoint all year. In fact,the only other game to have a rating below 2.00 - which is the line for a loss typically, when all collected data is taken into consideration, was Iowa. The rating is pretty consistent as a metric now. 

Remarkably, just this game accounts for 16.58% of tracking for the year, which is huge when you consider that it is twelve games, and indeed, MSU, Iowa and Ohio State by themselves account for about 45% of all tracking, and that is consistent with the obvious - rivalry games and losses, especially the two in combination, lead to some prolific cussing. It's just part and parcel of being a fan, and making it transparent is what we're about here.

So, in the coming weeks, the season data summary will be ready and we will even do a special bowl edition for whichever bowl we find ourselves in. 

Let me just say that even in a year with so many positives and Harbaugh, this is still fun to do because it helps me be a better fan when I pick apart fandom.