Illinois fans are used to hearing the school’s fight song around campus, but a lot went into the tune before it was blasted at every sporting event. Every school in the now 18-team Big Ten Conference ...

Fight songs fire up the fans, specially a good one. Fight songs unify with a common tune everyone knows and can sing and cheer together. They are the best kind of sing-alongs. For alumni, fight songs ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The sounds of college football have changed over the years, with pop culture songs becoming part of the show at stadiums across the country. Fight songs, though, have withstood ...

Fight songs are woven into the fabric of college football. Few other tunes have fans singing them at the top of their lungs week after week. Many super fans even play fight songs at their funerals.

COLUMBIA — Maybe it isn’t as toe-tappingly familiar as Michigan’s or Notre Dame’s, not as ear-wormy as Oklahoma’s or Tennessee’s. But South Carolina’s fight song, “The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way, ...