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My comments on the list: U Wash fight song sucks. Rocky Top is an adopted country song. If you are going to include Rocky Top then one can include USCs "Tusk" and Stanford's "All Right Now". The pieces mentioned for USC and FSU are not even the most famous pieces of music for those schools. If you are going to include "Boomer Sooner" then you have to include other more short pieces. This is my list as a 30+ year college football fan:

11: UCLA/CAL: UCLA created a modified version of the Cal fight song

10: Georgia. UGa song using the music from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic:" is so funny. I guess Sherman's troops singing that music created the ultimate musical earworm.

9: Notre Dame. Should be higher but I hate the Domers.

8: TAMU War Hymn

7: Boomer Sooner

6: The Service Academies

5: THE Ohio State University: "Across the Field"

4: USC: Tribute to Troy. (The piece of music the USC band plays when USC is on defense)

3: Tomahawk Chop

2: On Wisconsin: That was the cry Arthur McArthur, father of Douglas, yelled out as he led his Wisconsin regiment up Missionary Ridge.

1: "Hail to the Victors". When your college fight song gets the approval of the March King Sousa himself you know you did it right.

30 posted on 08/12/2019 8:49:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

“5: THE”

Whoever did that THE thing is a jerk.


42 posted on 08/12/2019 8:55:49 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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Hail to the Victors, and it’s not even close.


60 posted on 08/12/2019 9:12:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Fight that team across the field;
Show them Ohio’s here.
Set the Earth reverberating
With a mighty cheer:
O-HI-O!
Hit that line and see how they fall.
Never let that team get the ball.
Sing
“Hail, hail, the gang’s all here,
And we’ll lick Michigan today!


96 posted on 08/12/2019 11:08:52 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: C19fan

My high school used the Michigan tune but different words.


109 posted on 08/12/2019 11:30:46 AM PDT by DaveArk
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