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

[obxvol]

That is horrible. I’m a positive person and hate isn’t a strong enough word. I liked the eighties but you gotta let them go. Boooo

 

[TN Jed]

Now ABC hates us

Well, they are with ESPN

 

[VFLEatinFresh]

That's horrid.

 

[VAWL FAN]

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.

Yeah that's bad.

 

[pimo1]

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.

welcome to the 1980's

 

[BreatheUT]

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.

If that is going to be the opening then it stinks. This stuff gets more soft every year with these folks trying to get cute.

 

[BearBryant]

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.

I refuse to listen and watch. Disgusting not to put long time SEC team. OU and especially Texas go back to the Big 12 where you belong.

 

[volbound1700]

Reminds me of Super Smash bros for the Gamecube. Dated and just…bad.

No that music was epic, I would love that for the intro theme.

 

[volbound1700]

If you listen to it closely, it comes off as a blend between the old CBS theme and the old ESPN CFB Theme:



The problem is that it takes in the weaker/softer parts of the theme and not the high energy parts so it does sound like (as people are pointing out) more like a soap opera theme than a CFB theme.

 

[pearloftn]

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.

These were my high school years. NBA at its finest. That brought back great memories. Thanks.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Turrible, but no Gary!

 

[Nationdom]

when it comes to worldly things, nothing beats the Third Saturday in October on CBS.

 

[sami]

Nah this ain't it. The CBS theme was worth have to suffer Gary.

Not just the theme, but the way CBS valued the SEC and played a part with their excellent telecasts in the rise of the conference over the last 25 years.

I said at the end of last season when people here were celebrating the end of Danielson that we might be yearning for him by mid-season if it meant bringing back the CBS production of conference games. The SEC is just more product to ESPN to fill air time, and we will be sick and tired of them sooner than later, but sadly we're stuck with them for a looooooong time.

Oh, and about that awful theme - is it me, or were Texas and Florida the two primary schools featured? I saw one fleeting UT clip, a little Alabama and Georgia, and a whole lot of Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma, including a Tim Tebow highlight! Do these people even pay attention to the SEC?

 

[General Jack]

Looks like Texas has already bought the place.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

No that music was epic, I would love that for the intro theme.

Don’t get me wrong, the Smash theme music is iconic and great for what it is, I just don’t want to hear something remotely similar in this context.

 

[CardsNVols]

Sounds like generic intro sports programming music to me, just like literally all of them do. Who gives a ****?

 

[allvols4life]

They have a boner for suck @$s floriduh and hide our beautiful T with a weak passing glance. F -em

 

[amstelman]

Terrible ... and only 5 nanoseconds of Orange and White.

 

[sigmundoooz]

It sounds like an elevator version of an 80s TV theme.

 

[adam.vol]

 

[chuckiepoo]

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Straight up ass…

 

[adam.vol]

Straight up ass…

You have compelled me to strengthen my argument.

 

[MAD]

Theme songs hate us.

 

[lastlapuncle]

I thought that I was about to see Christmas bakeware on QVC or HSN.Music was as inspiring as a lead to the weather forecast.God,I wonder how Disney or ESPN get any attention from lead-ins like that.Pitiful!

 

[Vol865]

Lame