Bill Connelly

@ESPN_BillC · joined 17 Jun 2010

ESPN writer, professional nerd. SP+. Author of three books (Forward Progress, Study Hall and 50 Best*). College football, soccer, tennis. Puma addiction.

103 266Followers

2 840Following

97 492Posts total

1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views27 334this account6 139median for 100K–1M

Reach, %26.47%this account2.61%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.28%this account1.39%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	27 334	6 139	4.45×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	26.47%	2.61%	10.1×
Engagement rate	0.28%	1.39%	0.20×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

27.3K28 Aug

445.9K31 Aug

1.7K

22.1K

23.7K

311.2K1 Sep

13.1K

106.7K

29.3K

383

53.3K3 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.04%28 Aug

0.28%31 Aug

1.27%

0.17%

0.54%

0.13%1 Sep

0.15%

0.46%

1.57%

0.05%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.39%.

What the audience does

Likes75.3%2 148 in total

Reposts3.9%112 in total

Replies4.2%119 in total

Quotes4.7%133 in total

Bookmarks11.9%339 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

https://t.co/fuv10korVp 53.3K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 @ESPN_BillC Tennessee fan here that can at least imagine losing to NDSU. 383 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 Indeed. Big games are fun, but give me all quadbox, all the time in Week 1. Week 1’s for partially answering questions about millions of teams. The big games are better when they’re in Weeks 2-3. 29.3K views · 127 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 Seen/heard a lot of complaints about the Week 1 schedule. I'm in the minority on this one, but while I understand it from the lack of BIG GAMES on TV/content side, for purely football reasons, I think it's better this way. I'd rather teams have a game under their belt before 106.7K views · 443 likes · 9 reposts · 29 replies 01 Sep 2026 (I get loads of help from @tfgridiron on those sims, so you should blame/credit him for placing "Akron and Maryland in the CFP semifinals" in your head.) 13.1K views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 I used SP+ to project what SHOULD happen (conference/CFP/title odds), then I grabbed random sims to tell you what WILL happen. (Can't wait for "NDSU beats SEC champion Tennessee in the CFP.") 1 million sims = 1 million (increasingly wild) realities. https://t.co/s0uY6XEZk7 311.2K views · 340 likes · 21 reposts · 17 replies 01 Sep 2026 Btw, one of the wildest results ever: Northeastern State (14-108 from 2013-24 before surging late last year) destroying Delta State (34-11 w/2 playoff appearances, last 4 years) and overachieving against projections by 72.2 points. That'll kill the ol' error avg for a while. http 23.7K views · 106 likes · 13 reposts · 6 replies 31 Aug 2026 FWIW, things balanced out after the poor start. FCS teams ended up underachieving projections by just 2.5 PPG against D2 teams and overachieving by 3.8 (despite NW'ern State) against NAIA teams. Beat projections 59% of the time against lower divisions. 22.1K views · 36 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 @ESPN_BillC https://t.co/syhW1elWJj 1.7K views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SP+ TOP 772 Maine -89 Maine Maritime Montana State -4 Purdue Ferris State -4.5 Kent State Grand View -2 ULM This week's biggest mover: Concordia (Neb.), up 140 spots to 299th after a 77-7 win over No. 751 Waldorf! https://t.co/1emIk6plUR https://t.co/vnyHwpwOW 445.9K views · 1K likes · 61 reposts · 57 replies 31 Aug 2026 The FCS/D2 gap shrank in '25, and "5 D2 teams dramatically overachieving projections with 3 outright wins in 7 games" suggests maybe the gap's gotten even smaller in '26. (Not adjusting anything after one Thursday, obviously, but potentially interesting re: the Top 772.) 27.3K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026