Marching bands! Big entrances! Sing-alongs! 36 of our favorite game-day traditions
At the end of the third quarter, the crowd sings Petty's "I Won't Back Down" in addition to the longstanding "We are the Boys." -- Adelson · "Jump Around," Wisconsin: No team has developed a wilder midgame tradition than Wisconsin's "Jump Around," the House of Pain song of the same name, played between the third and fourth quarters at Camp Randall Stadium. The song made its Badgers debut at the 1998 homecoming game ... At the end of the third quarter, the crowd sings Petty's "I Won't Back Down" in addition to the longstanding "We are the Boys." -- Adelson · "Jump Around," Wisconsin: No team has developed a wilder midgame tradition than Wisconsin's "Jump Around," the House of Pain song of the same name, played between the third and fourth quarters at Camp Randall Stadium. The song made its Badgers debut at the 1998 homecoming game against Purdue.With the help of student organizations and athletic department employees, they came up with a plan: Play Neil Diamond's 1969 classic "Sweet Caroline" at the end of the third quarter of football games. The plan worked. Acierno made sure some of the lyrics were more Pitt friendly -- subbing in "Let's Go Pitt" during the chorus. The sing-along first happened against Buffalo in Week 2 of the 2008 season, and the rest is history.Now anywhere South Carolina folks gather, you can expect to hear the anthem, and Darude himself appeared at Willy B to perform it for a game against Kentucky in 2023. -- Steve Richards · Nothing whips South Carolina fans into a frenzy like the playing of "Sandstorm." Austin McAfee/Icon Sportswire · "Dixieland Delight," Alabama: The Crimson Tide mark the beginning of the fourth quarter by playing "Dixieland Delight," by the band Alabama, even though it's written about a Saturday night in Tennessee. But that's neither here nor there. It's a beloved sing-along, the height of the form, but enterprising Tide fans also managed to insert a few of their own lyrics, including a four-letter greeting to their friends over in Auburn.With a new season here, we look at some of the wild, wacky, wonderful reasons we love college football.