For every Notre Dame Victory March
or Buckeye Battle Cry, college football fans nationwide leap from their seats for the other fight songs: unique interpretations of current hits are the sound of college marching bands – and college football fandom – at its most exciting and original.
It’s a proud tradition that’s led us to completely reinvent our menu soundtrack game like never before: In late spring of 2025, two-time Grammy Award winning producer Steve Schnur brought together the best of the best – including numerous musicians from university ensembles as well as The Nashville Symphony Orchestra – into the famed RCA Studios in Nashville to meticulously recreate the marching band experience, complete with full brass, woodwind, and drumline sections. Over the course of a long weekend, The EA SPORTS College Football Marching Band recorded 10 stadium-shaking interpretations of contemporary classics from pop, rock, country, hip-hop and beyond, including“Espresso”, “Get Lucky”, “No Hands”, “Closer”, “Money Trees”, “1,2, Many”, “Closer” and more. Advance reaction has been so strong that we’re releasing these tracks to streaming platforms on September 11th as an album called EA SPORTS™ College Football 26: Halftime Volume 2.
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