Stewart Mandel ✓

@slmandel · Sunnyvale, CA · joined 31 Mar 2009

Husband. Dad. I write about college football for The Athletic and talk about college football on The Audible. Tips? Compliments? Email stewart@theathletic.com.

218 549Followers

895Following

80 197Posts total

109.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views26 100this account7 037median for 100K–1M

Reach, %11.94%this account2.88%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.82%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	26 100	7 037	3.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.94%	2.88%	4.15×
Engagement rate	0.82%	1.40%	0.59×

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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

26.1K4 Sep

26.4K

38.8K

10.7K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.54%4 Sep

1.17%

0.82%

0.35%

2.84%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes84.6%867 in total

Reposts7.1%73 in total

Replies5.5%56 in total

Quotes1.0%10 in total

Bookmarks1.9%19 in total

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

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

A QB that stunk all game leading a 2-minute TD drive, a coach playing for a 45-yard field goal instead of trying to get closer, and a walk-off block. College football is back! 7K views · 182 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 Illinois just completed a 54-yard Hail Mary on the last play of the first half vs. UAB. Illinois up 21-13. 10.7K views · 33 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 This judge, perhaps even more so than in other cases, is just making stuff up as he goes along. Now LSU can't cut its own players? Starting to see why NCAA is having so much success so far getting these rush-job injunctions stayed. 38.8K views · 266 likes · 26 reposts · 23 replies 04 Sep 2026 FINAL: UMass 37, Rutgers 21. UMass ends a 23-game FBS losing streak, dating to 2023. The spread was 29.5, which to put in perspective was bigger than NIU-Notre Dame. 26.4K views · 268 likes · 26 reposts · 8 replies 04 Sep 2026 The ex-NFL players got their injunction from the local judge (not exactly surprising). Now we wait and see what Lane does. 26.1K views · 118 likes · 6 reposts · 18 replies 04 Sep 2026