Behold the official new "SEC on ABC" theme song.

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Voltopia

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I intensely dislike this song. It's timid, middling, utterly forgettable. A callback to a older theme song that wasn't even that memorable to begin with.

I understand that it can't be the SEC on CBS music, but it needed - NEEDED - to have that same level of character. It needed to be bold and brash. Bassline and drums. ENERGY. Not whatever late-90s sports video game menu music this thing is.
 
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Yeah, I was posting about this on the CFB reddit.

The CBS theme is still far better and more iconic. This one seems like it tries to blend that CBS and ESPN's old CFB theme but it comes off in a lighter tone which just doesn't have the energy or character like you pointed out.

I miss CBS' intros from the 1990s and early 2000s more than what they became in the later days. Listen to the iconic intro to the 1996 Alabama vs. Tennessee game with a rundown of their history, etc.

 
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Agree . . . unimpressive.

I've been watching a few of these on YouTube . . . .


I think the way they did these in the 1980s was just about perfect . . . even Musburger.
 
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Voltopia said:


I intensely dislike this song. It's timid, middling, utterly forgettable. A callback to a older theme song that wasn't even that memorable to begin with.

I understand that it can't be the SEC on CBS music, but it needed - NEEDED - to have that same level of character. It needed to be bold and brash. Bassline and drums. ENERGY. Not whatever late-90s sports video game menu music this thing is.
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give_him 6 said:
Sounds like an 80's song meant more for evening prime time soap operas like Dynasty, Dallas, or Falcon Crest rather than college football.
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Oh my, I was just coming here to say that. You could overlay this music onto just about any 80's sitcom opening. You can just see the hokey tv dad giving the finger gun to the camera in slow-mo with the cheesy grin.
 
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That CBS theme is tough to match but this seems like they didn’t even try. It sounds like it was pulled from something from the 90s. That NBC Sunday night football theme that they came up with a few years ago to try to copy the iconic Monday night football song was pretty bad too, but even that’s better than this lol.
 
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Didn't we already do this? With a whole nother thread? Like 3 weeks ago?

EDIT: yep, here it is. Six weeks ago, but still. We done already have gone and been over this. Heh.

Go Vols!

New ABC graphic SEConABC - Not a fan

Not a fan so far. Could be that I don't see a lot of orange. Not sure if that's the theme if so..... 😞
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Voltopia said:


I intensely dislike this song. It's timid, middling, utterly forgettable. A callback to a older theme song that wasn't even that memorable to begin with.

I understand that it can't be the SEC on CBS music, but it needed - NEEDED - to have that same level of character. It needed to be bold and brash. Bassline and drums. ENERGY. Not whatever late-90s sports video game menu music this thing is.
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I like the original much better. It’s a play on the original College Gameday theme from the late 1990s.

 
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New 'Theme" needs MUCH MORE Tennessee Graphics reference...

and a TON more John Tesh!!!!! (watch out Google...her comes the young'ins!!!!)
 
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