Jeremiah Smith, Ryan Williams on cover of EA Sports College Football ’26
EA Sports chose Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith and Alabama’s Ryan Williams to be on the cover of College Football ’26. We talk to the athletes about what this moment means to them.
The calendar turning to August means college football is tantalizingly close, with the first game of the 2025 season kicking off later this month.
And if fall training camps beginning this week weren’t enough of an indication of the impending end of the summer sports doldrums, ESPN gave fans another cue that their long, agonizing wait is almost over.
The network unveiled the song that will accompany much of its college football game coverage this season: “don’t wait run fast” by Machine Gun Kelly, with ESPN pairing the tune with a series of highlights and crowd shots from last season as part of a hype video.
What may seem like a small, trivial detail is anything but for college football fans.
For those who are planted on their couch in front of the television all day every fall Saturday — to say nothing of the fans who just tune in to watch games involving their favorite team on an ESPN network — they’ll hear the song dozens of times over the course of the season, making it an oddly integral part of their game day experience. Memories of those songs can linger. More than a decade later, Fall Out Boy’s “Centuries,” ESPN’s anthem for the 2014 season, is still a meme among college football fans.
The reaction to ESPN’s song choice has been mixed, to put it generously.
Like most people, sports fans are creatures of habit who are prone to bristle at anything new, even something as innocuous as a theme song for a television show. Social media wasn’t…
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