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  • This is so classic I think this theme and The NFL on CBS are the two best themes in sports history

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  • Miami vs FSU, coming up next.

  • Both of these themes are great. I think the best I've heard in college football is the one ESPN is using for the BCS games.

  • this should be the official theme song for humanity, why in the abc wide world of sports did they get rid of this!!!!!

  • This and Keith Jackson are icing to the cake.

  • Back in the days when USC dominated.

  • Agree. They really need to bring this back.

  • oklahoma sooners football baby

  • michigan football

  • need to bring this back...

  • The Michigan State Marching Band recorded this. Because they are the best.

  • this shouldve been the mlb postseason

  • The BC$ sucks but the theme is epic, playoff-worthy, come on Missouri, leave the Big 12 and instigate superconferences so I can unabashedly enjoy the collegiate game like I do the NFL!

  • this music intro was so great. miss it. wish abc coulda done like cbs and stayed the same.

  • You would think ABC would give the people what they wanted to hear......But noooooo!

  • God this theme was the BEST. This is what I woke up every Saturday morning when I was little and watched football with my dad and brother all damn day. Good times..

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  • Texas 41 USC 38

  • Go big blue !

  • whose ready for some college football?

  • PAC-10 FOOTBALL

    oops i meant 12 lol

  • this theme soon morphed into the theme we know today

  • Ahh memories. This song always makes me the of the miracle season in 2002 for the Bucks..and also to think that we could just have another one this year makes me pumped even more! =) Go Buckeyes!!

  • I miss these days.

  • from 0:35-1:10 on 9/17/11 Brent Musberger you are looking live at a sold out crowd at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium where the #1 Sooners look to win another against the Noles and take there aim to New Orleans and the BCS championship game, #5 Florida State looking to return to there once dominate glory. #1 Oklahoma vs #5 Florida State....showtime in Tallahassee!

  • @KiLLaPaTTie as an oklahoma foward i would look foward to this

  • ABC had a killer sports package. I remember as a kid watching their games and getting excited for the pageantry and tradition of college football. Can't wait for this season. GO TROJANS!!

  • Yeah, I miss the days of NCAA College Football on ABC, back when ABC and ESPN were not owned by the same company... especially love the BCS theme song... I can still hear Keith Jackson's famous voice... " ... On this, 'The Hallowed Ground' The Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California... It's Number One versus Number Two, as the Trojans from Southern California take on the Longhorns of Texas... in the 'Grand Daddy of 'em all', The Rose Bowl Presented by AT&T... =)

  • I'm tellin you, who wouldn't want the BCS theme played whenever you walked into a room?

  • i want abc sports back...i want the nba back on nbc...i want fox to use separate themes for their sports instead of just the football theme

  • at least brent musberger is still around

  • "You are looking live at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California...Hello everyone I am Brent Musberger...."

  • this is the best sports broadcast theme

  • 1 person thinks ESPN on ABC >>>>> 40 years of ABC Sports.

  • Bring back ABC Sports...ESPN on ABC is NOT the same...back when they had different presentation packages they were the best.

  • one Craig James cocksucker and ESPN lover dislikes ABC college football

  • @ blakkjack21: ESPN is better than fox. Remember when fox ran the BCS bash? Shit was awful. Also, speaking of Fox, they're in the middle of negotiating the TV rights to the Big XII right now,a nd Fox has a $90 million offer on the table.

  • @cooljerk Well, I got bad news for the Big Ten fans, Fox is airing the Big 10 Championship game.

  • The second song on this video will forever remind me of VY. It's the theme Vince won it all to.

  • Is it just me or does ESPN own all of college football now? I'm just glad they didn't get the rights to "March Madness"(the men's variety)...they need to kill this "ABC on ESPN" garbage. They could at least lie and say its ABC Sports and ESPN just produce the broadcast.

  • @blakkjack21 ESPN is a monopoly. They even own the 1st and 2nd round of the Masters! WTF! What's next? professional canoeing?!?!?

  • @collegefootballrulez ESPN owns everything...except hockey.

  • @blakkjack21 Which is precisely why I want hockey to remain on VS. ESPN would run hockey into the ground. This isn't the 90s, sadly.

    oh and this theme kicks ass. as a Nebraska fan and college football fan nothing's better than hearing this music and Brent say, "you are looking live...."

  • The BCS theme is epic but the BCS sucks monkey testicles and breaks the law.

  • Reminds me of Michigan's 1997 season with Keith Jackson & Brian Griese calling most of the games. Great times.

  • @jmcieslak0 Reminds me of Ohio State's 2002 season with Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson calling most of the games.

  • @jmcieslak0 Bob Griese, rather.

    OSU sucks.

  • @jmcieslak0 and they're a pack of rotten cheaters

  • Now let's join John Saunders in the studio for an update. John?

  • @edboogie2004 john saunders is legendary. when he dies, abc will officially stop broadcasting college football.

  • I really miss this theme and the abc presentation without the espn integration...when it changed to "espn on abc" the quality kind of diminished...call me old-fashioned, but I liked the broadcasts that were strictly abc-sports generated without anything espn...plus espn is ruining the bcs bowls by not broadcasting them on abc.

  • @CuBsFaN123100

    The old BCS theme is just flat out epic.

  • who's the one douchebag that disliked this?!?

  • the BCS theme sounds so epic

  • Bring this theme back!

  • Reminds me of those good old Saturday afternoons watching football at home with my dad when i was a kid

  • brings back memories of the first college game i ever watched. Texas/Oklahoma. i think i was 7 or 8 years old

  • eric crouch's theme song at the beginning

  • "You are looking live at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing where the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will square off against the Michigan State Spartans!"

  • VINCE..YOUNG...SCORES!

  • I hate the BCS! Give me 16 teams, it's easily done.

  • For some reason, bowl season was so much more fun to watch on ABC. Screw ESPN.

  • @TideatMileHigh I know right! Now the Rose Bowl is on ESPN, wtf is that?

  • You are looking LIVE...

    Boy, I miss ABC Sports.

  • U-C-L-A

    UCLA Fight ! fight ! fight !

  • BCS=BS

  • FUCKING ICONIC!!!!

  • This music reminds me of the 2003 Big 12 Title game...fucking ICONIC!

  • GOOD MORNING EVERYONE---COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS ARRRRIVED!!! HELL YEAHHH!!!!!

  • I love this music! Brings me back to some good times.

  • those who inexplicably like brent musberger must be too young to remember keith jackson...

  • @jadymustang65 musburger isnt bad but he isn't keith jackson i will never forget his last game the 2006 rose bowl between Texas and USC

  • Brent Musberger and this song... always reminds me of the big OU games earlier in the decade.

  • College Football. Keith Jackson. ABC Sports. It was perfect. May not be able to get Keith Jackson out of retirement, but they can always attempt to bring back this music! It fired me up every time!

    Go Blue!

  • brent musberger, jack arute! whats betterrrrr?

  • Man, I've forgotten how good this theme was.  The First One.

  • c dvedvefveve

  • why does ESPN have to ruin everything with their crappy music and annoying graphics?

  • @thndrct218 true that man espn changed everything super crappy and made their own versions they totally suck

  • This music is sooo badass. The ESPN music is just garbage. I hate it so much!!

  • Miami(FL), FSU, Notre Dame, USC, Bama, UFlorida, UTexas, Okla, Michagan, Ohio State, VTech, LSU, Army, Navy, Syrcause, Tennessee, Nebraska, Illnois, UCLA, Auburn, Boise State, Georgia, WVU, Penn State, Utah, BYU, Oregon, Iowa

  • is there any way I can make this my ringtone?

  • @YouCanCallMeAl1022 zamzar.com

  • I understand the branding issue of putting the espn name on abs sports....but why change the theme? The music was perfect with ABC. Now it's just ok, but not epic anymore.

  • This reminds me of watching college football on Saturday and seeing the Cingular All American update with Eric Crouch running for like a 70 yard TD

  • @Zenigundam yea except that Cingular All American update for me was Maurice Clarett rolling over Texas Tech

  • ITS FUCKING GAME TIME

  • Who's the one asshole who doesn't like this? Bring back ABC College Football!!!! :)

  • I miss ABC sports dude!

  • I agree. It was fun when it was ABC College football

  • Usually I can forgive ESPN for stupid stuff, but slapping their logo over where ABC Sports' would go is unforgivable.

  • The BCS is gay but I have to admit the theme is stirring. Of course, it would be nicer if it actually represented something that had meaning.

  • Big 12 is dead. Here we come PAC 10. 

  • i remember i know it was keith jackson and i believe brent musburger... like it would be florida st vs miami good ole 90's

  • i CANNOT believe this is now a 'former' theme. there is no other way to watch college football.

  • @plop262 its still used....in openings

  • Everytime I heard the first part theme, I would wait for football to come on and would always get chills! Great song!!

  • Bring this theme back...THIS IS College football..None of this country/hip hop crap they play now. This is classic...ESPN you officially have ruined college football with your monopoly of the sport...BRING BACK ABC SPORTS!!

  • i loved it when they broke away to an update of another game showing highlights when i was drinkin beer!

  • I can remember when I woke up Saturday mornings to watch college football and this theme song was part of the greatness.

  • @collegefootballrulez RIGHT ON BROTHER. SAME HERE!

  • abc sports baby , ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • abc sprots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • haha I remember this!!

  • This would be great to add to EA Sports NCAA 11

  • @mflores34 Yes, it would!

  • this theme is so epic that i want to defeat my final exams.

  • this song was used when my USC Trojans beat Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, FIGHT ON SC!!!

  • The BCS' days are numbered. Finally, Orrin Hatch and company will bring to the end. Screw the tools who are too stupid to want a change.

  • Both of these themes have been used as introduction and sign-off themes.

  • This was first used in '99.

  • They need this song back during the day games on Saturday!!!!!

  • ABC Sports (theoretically) would've kept using this song had ESPN not taken over ABC and used ESPN programming on ABC.

  • There were a few reasons why ABC Sports was changed to ESPN:

    Monday Night Football moving to ESPN

    Losing the rights to the BCS

  • ABC theme coupled with Keith Jackson= College Football

  • I must confess the BCS THEME MUSIC is epic. Nevertheless, the BCS sucks and much like the theme trumps the game every season (remember the championship game is meaningless there is no championship in I-A college football), even so the hype of the BCS transcends the product. Anyone who thinks the BCS is legitimate deserves to go to jail, for being stupid if nothing else.

  • We are the Champions ... Roll Tide Roll ...

  • bcs with fox= failure

  • the second theme is EPIC!

  • Thank God the BCS National Championship Game is back on ABC this year!!

  • this should be the bcs national championship theme

  • awesome video

  • The first one (Washington State vs Ohio State 2002) (at :05) "His name is Jason Gesser, his smile is as wide as his talent. The Washington State gunslinger falls in the footsteps of Mark Griffin, Drew Bledsoe and Ryan Leaf." "Ohio State's brightest young star is Maurice Clarett, running for 175 is his collegiate debut. Now, he's here to stop the Cougar Express." Good times!

  • it would be awesome if you could have the BCS theme played whenever you walked into a room

  • hahaha! It would definitely make for a dramatic entrance!

  • and thats why you dont let big corporations buy you out I mean screw you disney

  • ESPN Sucks ass!!! Bring back ABC sports college football!!! NOW!!

  • @stevekach that espn package kills it

  • @stevekach You are looking live at the (Insert Bad-ass stadium here). ESPN is such garbage.

  • ah i remember this

  • god this brings back memories

  • best college football theme of all time

  • no cbs theme is it has been out since SB XXI in which is was the theme of the Super Bowl but instead of using it fr the NFL CBS decided to use it fr college football and it has been used for 23 years.

  • This theme plus brent musburger's comentary = college football

  • YOOOOOOOU ARE LOOKING LIVE!

  • This them plus Keith Jackson = the real college football

  • Keith Jackson was the best he is college football Herbie sucks in the booth the best was Bob and Keith when it came to big games ESPN and ABC only one can compare is Brent Musburger but the rest are average .

  • Agreeeed! College Football misses Keith Jackson.

  • @bonifidelegend plus Musburger and Griese

  • Maybe I'm gettinga different intro than everybody else... but I've never seen John Mayer run an intro on ABC broadcasts... now, I've seen the ESPN broadcasts with Dave Matthews all over it. This game currently playing is swapping out the ESPN College Gameday music and the old ABC music liberally... I'm willing to be at halftime we'll get the old ABC College Football intro... let's wait and see...

  • I'm trying to find the marvelous highlight music for college football that one of the networks used in 80's and 90's. It's not used now, but was great -- sort of haunting melody. Anyone know what it was?

  • This was the best theme song ever for college football...I wish ESPN would bring it back for every game on ABC...Beats the stupid John Mayer and Country songs they have now for intros...ESPN killed ABC college football

  • wat ever happened to abc sports now its all espn on abc

  • "You're looking LIVE at a dawningly clear evening in Pasadena California. This is the scene, The famed Rose Bowl where the roars of a a packed crowd of over 90 thousand is defening to the ear! And it is where the journey will end for two teams either in victory or defeat! Number 1 will face Number 2 in the Nation here tonight! This is The Citi BCS Championship Game 2010!!

  • Goosebump City once we hear that music with Musburger's voice over leading into the 2010 BCS NCG in Pasadena on 1/7/10 on ABC Sports

  • This theme is 10x better than the one ESPN uses right now.

  • Best college football theme music outside of the SEC on CBS. I loved this theme and especially the remixes that were played before commercials. Just got me pumped up.

    Need to go back to this.

  • If I'm not mistaken the ABC broadcasts use this song all the time now... well, the primetime game anyway... and during most if not all halftime segments on games shown in ABC.

  • They don't.

  • That's funny... because during the halftime segmes on ABC you can hear it... and they use the slower, more pageanty song, i.e. the one that they used to use when doing the intro to the BCS National Championship game, during today's UT OU game as well as last week during their primetime broadcast.

  • This saturday, Cal Bears comin into Autzen Stadium to face the Oregon Ducks on ABC! GO DUCKS!!!!

  • I just made this song my ring/text-tone so if anyone wants it message me and I'll send it to you! ( I use it/will use it, for Football Saturdays....

  • lemme know how you were able to do that!

  • consider yourself messaged!!!!!

  • The season begins tonight folks!!!!

  • OH MY GOD. I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!!!

    ESPN should just go die in a fire for not still using this song. I remember I muted all games and hummed this song for a year or so after they got rid of it because it's so badass.

  • If you want, I can give you directions on where to download this song. It's my current ringtone because it's so awesome.

  • WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I AGREE 150%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVVVVEEED THIS SONG! It gave me chills!!!!!!!!! ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND IT TO DOWNLOAD???? GO BUCKEYES!!!!!! O-H!!!!

  • now thats what I call passion. lol

  • No, Male genitals being ripped apart all over your face is your passion.

    Stup diseasing the world with your stupidity.

  • I want your balls and penis so I can feast on them.

  • I appreciate your honesty, but I'm not really happy with ugly greasy dominant males.

    Nice blonde girls are good though, so if you could send your mom over, I'd be happy to put all this behind her.

  • shes not blonde...and shes 65....older than your ugly ass

  • I'll still bang her if it makes you cry.

    Patriots and "Alpha Males" like you are gonna be the ones who get fucked over later in life because you don't know when to shut the fuck up.

    The thing that genuinely scares me is that you're in your late teens, maybe older, and I'm 15. You've shown that you can't communicate intelligently with a 15 year old. That shouldn't shock you though.

  • Thats the problem with this generation. We have stupid fucks like you, who can't do shit in school.

  • "You're in your late teens, maybe older, and I'm 15. You've shown that you can't communicate intelligently with a 15 year old."

    So basically, what you're saying to that is.

    "NO U"

    I'd love to see you acheiving as high as me when you're skipping classes banging the school team under the bleachers.

    Take it from me, You're stupid, you got served by a 15 year old, who just happens to be of over-average intelligence, and now you're whining, shut the fuck up and go away, you pathetic excuse for a man.

  • You pussy ass nigga dont you eva in yo life holla at me nigga...you eat a dick nigga YOU EAT A DICK....i was bout to pop da trunck on the bitch ass nigga

  • Point proven.

  • LETS GO HOKIES!

  • 8 days till kickoff 6 days till Thursday kickoff

  • lol why the hell would you be looking forward to football season, your a michigan fan!

  • cause their is no way in hell that they're not going to a bowl game. Plus Lou Holtz predicted AT LEAST a 7-5 season for Michigan.

  • It is an absolute crime that ABC/ESPN stopped using this theme song when ABCSports was rebranded ESPN on ABC before the 2006 season. This song is outstanding. Now they only use this song sparingly. It was such a stupid idea to blend ABCSports with ESPN. It's part of the McDonaldization of sports that ESPN has started to do. You think the head honchos at ESPN would recognize the greatness of this song and bring it back. ESPN's theme isn't bad, but there's no reason it has to be one or the other.