~The Mood~

The Mood Index, launched in 2013, is a weekly temperature check of Michigan football fan sentiment and overall emotional state. For more context, scroll down. To participate, follow MVictors on X/Twitter following football games or major program announcements.

Current Mood: 80 [+7]

Despite the loss in the Cheez-It Bowl to Texas, Michigan fans are relieved with the Kyle Whittingham hire which proved to be the Rx for the highly embarrassing end to Sherrone Moore’s tenure.

Historic Chart:

Current Mood Chart (2025 Season):

2024 Week-by-Week!

2023 Week-by-Week!

2022 Week-by-week:

2021 Week-by-week:

2020 Week-by-week (avert your eyes):

2019 Week by Week:

2018 Week by Week:

Background:

Question: Is it great, to be, a Michigan Wolverine?
Answer: Depends.

The Mood was devised in March 2013 to gauge the collective feeling of the U-M fanbase on the stature of the football program. While there is a strong correlation between The Mood and Michigan’s ranking and win/loss record, it’s more complicated than this. 2021 is a good example. After a few games, many pundits had Michigan firmly in the national playoff discussion (which would imply a Mood rating in the 90s), even after the Michigan State game. But the Mood of the fanbase was reserved given the disasters in big games in recent years (see 2018, 2019).

Follow MVictors on Twitter and share your take after each game. Yes, I’m aware this whole exercise is a bit silly…but taking trivial things very seriously is what I do!

A huge thanks to Scott Robbins at The Blockhams for the incredible artwork on the Michigan Man Mood faces!