How Garth Brooks, The Killers and Tom Petty became stars of college football Saturdays

+5 How Garth Brooks, The Killers and Tom Petty became stars of college football Saturdays 1 hr ago Pep bands and fight songs still have their place, but now fans of some of the most prominent college football programs have embraced the stadium anthem. Rock, country, hip hop, electronic dance music ... different genres can work at different places. Perhaps the most famous of these traditions is House of Pain’s “Jump Around” at Wisconsin, now in its third decade of inspiring Badgers fans to leap up and down. Other examples include “Mr. Brightside” at Michigan, “I Won’t Back Down” at Florida, “Shout” at Oregon, “Sandstorm” at South Carolina and “Dixieland Delight” at Alabama.