Third Quarter: College Football in the American South

Bain‐Selbo, Eric

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50059-1_3

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“…It has been established that fight songs and the atmosphere they are played in, play an integral part in creating the culture of college athletics and inspire brand loyalty among fans and alumni (Bain-Selbo, 2009;Clotfelter, 2019;Jensen, et al, 2016;McCluskey, 2017). However, the findings of this study provide some insight into how college fight songs contribute to this culture.…”

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Hanna,

Thompson,

Morton

2023

JESS

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This content analysis study examines the lyrics contained in the fight songs of the 130 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision schools. Because fight songs are still being written and other fight songs are being updated to account for societal changes, a study of the themes that are common among fight songs would be valuable to those responsible for writing these important works. Literature related to college fight song studies, music, and branding, as well as music in advertising provides context to the study. The researchers engaged in a two-step process that involved theme identification and coded theme count. In the theme identification stage, the researchers used a common sample of two fight songs per conference to identify themes that consistently appeared in the song lyrics. The researchers then coded the full population of 130 songs seeking the identified themes across all songs. The most common themes were self-reference to the name of the university (97.7%), exclamation (93.1%), and togetherness (90%). The thematic analysis confirms the unification and excitement purposes that fight songs are intended to generate and confirm the role fight songs play in intercollegiate athletics branding— selling the concepts of unification and excitement to college sport consumers. The remaining themes included game-specific references, nickname, school colors, victory, vocalization, war, and word-splits.

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2023

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“…Just as Karl Marx called religion the "opiate of the masses," some social theorists refer to sports in the same way (Bain-Selbo 2008). Sports 14 From the transcription of "Part One | Tony Pulis' first interview as Head Coach of West Bromwich Albion."…”

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“…Using the on-the-field randomness of sports to explore political questions does have some precedent. One recent article, for example, investigated the link between winning college football teams and the outcomes of Senate, gubernatorial, and presidential elections over the period 1964-2008(Healy et al 2010. The authors discovered that-even if politicians had little or nothing to do with sports outcomes-people still rewarded incumbents for victories by voting for them at higher rates.…”

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“DROPPING THE BALL”: The Understudied Nexus of Sports and Politics

Gift

Miner

2017

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From the Roman Colosseum to Wimbledon Stadium, the Olympics to the Super Bowl, sports have always played a central role in societies. With so much at stake-money, pride, power (and occasionally even fun)-sports are undeniably political. Yet despite this recognition, political scientists and policy scholars devote little attention to the study of sports, especially compared to other disciplines like business, law, and economics. We offer reasons for this void and suggest how political scientists can begin to fill it. In our view, the nexus between sports and politics is not only a vital topic of study on its own, but it can also provide a lens through which to examine-and test-broader questions in the discipline. We propose how scholars can think more systematically about the interaction of politics and sports and leverage the distinctive qualities of sports to improve causal identification across a range of issue areas and subfields in political science and policy studies.

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Third Quarter: College Football in the American South

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“DROPPING THE BALL”: The Understudied Nexus of Sports and Politics

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