Michigan's famous fight song, The Victors, was written in November of 1898. Louis Elbel, a music student at the University, wrote the words and the music in celebration of a last minute 12-11 Michigan victory over rival Chicago, giving U-M its first Western Conference football championship. The Victors was first played in public by John Philip Sousa's band in May of 1899 in Ann Arbor. Sousa later called it the "best college march ever written." The Victors (L. Elbel)/Regents of the University of Michigan Now for a cheer they are here, triumphant! Here they come with banners flying, In stalwart step they're nighing, With shouts of vict'ry crying, We hurrah, hurrah, we greet you now, Hail! Far we their praises sing For the glory and fame they've bro't us Loud let the bells them ring For here they come with banners flying Far we their praises tell For the glory and fame they've bro't us Loud let the bells them ring For here they come with banners flying Here they come, Hurrah! Hail! to the victors valiant Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes Hail! Hail! to Michigan the leaders and best Hail! to the victors valiant Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes Hail! Hail! to Michigan, the champions of the West! We cheer them again We cheer and cheer again For Michigan, we cheer for Michigan We cheer with might and main We cheer, cheer, cheer With might and main we cheer! Hail! to the victors valiant Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes Hail! Hail! to Michigan, the champions of the West!
USC’s is the best imo. Notre Dame’s fight song has always been one of my favorites too. Nice to see Arkansas’s fight song on here because I’ve always thought it was catchy.
@@cooperreed1709 Down the Field is the "official" fight song...but it ISN'T the fight song in the hearts of Tennessee's fans. That will always be Rocky Top.
I love these lists because most are always titled "top college fight songs" instead of "my favorite fight songs" Being an SC fan of course I think ours is #1 but there are so many great ones. I love hearing them all. It's what makes college sports so awesome. Fight On for ol' SC!
Go BLUE! Michigan’s fight song is arguably the most iconic. I’m not saying it’s the best even though I think so because, well, I’m a Michigan fan, but it is the most iconic without a doubt
Perfect. You have captured not only great fight songs but also great football traditions (over a long haul vs. last few decades) and academic institutions with some or even great scholastic standing too... you've left out some go the recent quasi-university NFL AAA team blight. Thanks.
It should be Texas #1 USC #2 and whatever with the rest. But Notre Dame is so overrated. It sounds like a freaking Christmas Carol. Like have they ever heard of this great thing called BRASS? Apparently not.. at least Texas and USC use their brass.
I’ve randomly whistled NDs fight song for what seems like my whole life, I could never remember who’s fight song it was so I came to this video lol thanks for clearing it up
Having bought a Professionally Done LP in the early 1960's while in grade school, which has the Top 30 College Fight Songs (Music and Words) I know them ll. Always considered Both of these in the Top 10. My Rankings of the BEST Collge Fight Songs: "On Wisconsin"( Long Version- Sorry I went to Wisconsin) "Maine Stiene Song", Notre Dame", "Fight that Team Across the Field" (Ohio State) , "Hail to te Victors" (michigan), "Southern Cal", "Hail to Pit" , "Rambling Reck From Georia Tech", "Minnesota Rouser", "Go You Northwestern", "The Eyes Of Texas", " Bula Bua" (Yale) "Glory Glory to Old Georgia"," Princeton Fight Song"
You definitely got the Top 3 right. Adding UCLA would have made it the perfect Top 4 (Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, Michigan), but at least you mentioned UCLA as an honorable mention.
What about 12 national championships and another 14 not claimed by Notre Dame. That makes 26. You don't think that has anything to do with it do you. It's just the fight song?
I'm a USC fan, and I'm glad to see Fight On ranked highly . . . but I agree with you. Michigan's fight song is absolutely unequalled. I get goosebumps when I hear it. ND's is good, but always overrated, just like the football team is.
And Georgia Tech's - I'm a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech and a Hell-u-va Engineer - is not even on the honorable mentions? This is the coolest fight song in college.
This is a highly subjective task in the first place to be sure. Although your list is stellar and has some of the greats, I have to say that after recently hearing Iowa State's fight song I am a recent convert to that being in my personal top 10
@@SMAY0001tbh, I think that since Michigan was able to beat teams like Penn State and Ohio State, knowing they didn't have signals and I'm pretty sure no head coach for both those games, the sign stealing had nothing to do with them being good.
Michigan has the best fight song. The best tradition, the winningest football program of all time, with 11 National Championships to boot! However, Notre Dame's fight song should be second (Colorado State plagiarized their song), and USC should be third.
Only Michigan fans think they have 11 MNCs. What really counts is this: since college football became a major national sport (AP era), Michigan has 3 MNC, and only one since Truman's second inauguration.
LOL. Denying your intelligence? Gladly! :) Here's a hint: My school leads yours in the all-time series. My school has more than double the number of national championships that Michigan has in the AP era. I've always liked Michigan. I've mostly just felt sorry for them. All those nice seasons with no MNCs under Bo, with the best of those seasons usually ending in a loss when they came out west. So sad. :(
Good list but USC is definitely number 1 and they literally have two well known themes within one, the better part of the USC theme starts around 40 seconds into the piece whereas you posted the lessor IMHO!
It's nice but the last couple games this past year that is the ONLY thing the damn band would play it was insufferable to listen to everything single play
The Notre Dame fight song is by far the most famous and the best. I grew up all over the United States. I heard of that high schools and middle schools I went to. I saw it on TV. Like happy days and other television shows. I never heard none of the other ones anywhere except for at their games. The USC fight song is really good. An old rocky tops pretty good too. But the Notre Dame one is the best. In the Michigan wanting nothing
Notre Dame's fight song is a classic, but "The Victors" is overall a better song and one could say it is a musical masterpiece. John Phillip Sousa himself praised and even conducted it. Good video though
thank you. finally someone who can at leats respect us. almost all of the bama fans all they do is bash us and hate on us. and ur right, may the best team win. Go Irish!
Other than Michigan and Notre Dame they all sound like Saturday morning cartoon themes or drag show pomposities. However, Notre Dame has only one musical motif in there....Michigan's has 3 movements that all build splendidly and even employs key change. the song was performed during a concert by United States Marine Band leader and "March King" John Philip Sousa. Sousa held the song in high regard: "No one but a master of counterpoint could have conceived the splendid harmony that marks the composition throughout," the bandleader said.
Michigan's famous fight song, The Victors, was written in November of 1898. Louis Elbel, a music student at the University, wrote the words and the music in celebration of a last minute 12-11 Michigan victory over rival Chicago, giving U-M its first Western Conference football championship. The Victors was first played in public by John Philip Sousa's band in May of 1899 in Ann Arbor. Sousa later called it the "best college march ever written."
The Victors (L. Elbel)/Regents of the University of Michigan
Now for a cheer they are here, triumphant!
Here they come with banners flying,
In stalwart step they're nighing,
With shouts of vict'ry crying,
We hurrah, hurrah, we greet you now,
Hail!
Far we their praises sing
For the glory and fame they've bro't us
Loud let the bells them ring
For here they come with banners flying
Far we their praises tell
For the glory and fame they've bro't us
Loud let the bells them ring
For here they come with banners flying
Here they come, Hurrah!
Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan
the leaders and best
Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan,
the champions of the West!
We cheer them again
We cheer and cheer again
For Michigan, we cheer for Michigan
We cheer with might and main
We cheer, cheer, cheer
With might and main we cheer!
Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan,
the champions of the West!
USC’s is the best imo. Notre Dame’s fight song has always been one of my favorites too. Nice to see Arkansas’s fight song on here because I’ve always thought it was catchy.
I'm an sec fan but I would be kidding myself if I didn't admit the Michigan jingle is by far the most catchy , Notre dame in a close 2nd !
Rocky Top, youll always be home sweet home to me! Good Ole Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee!
You ain't the only Tennessee fan here!!! GOOD OLE ROCKY TOP!
Smurfolio48 rocky top is awful
I love how everyone thinks rocky top is Tennessee’s fight song
Cooper Reed it’s down the field
@@cooperreed1709 Down the Field is the "official" fight song...but it ISN'T the fight song in the hearts of Tennessee's fans. That will always be Rocky Top.
USC and ND are my favorites too. I def think USC's opening is by far the best
John Phillips Sousa, the Victors is "The greatest college fight ever written". Mic drop!!
😊 good evening all 😊 in my teens had a Lp33 record of the top marching bands in America and All American marching bands
The thumbnail is literally what got me hooked on college football at age 8. 41 years later, still hooked.
Surprised Oregon is not on this list. A very iconic unique sound.
Even as a Nebraska fan, I love the USC fight song
I love these lists because most are always titled "top college fight songs" instead of "my favorite fight songs" Being an SC fan of course I think ours is #1 but there are so many great ones. I love hearing them all. It's what makes college sports so awesome.
Fight On for ol' SC!
Go vols. Tennessee fight song is down the field.
GO IRISH
Go Ducks
Go BLUE! Michigan’s fight song is arguably the most iconic. I’m not saying it’s the best even though I think so because, well, I’m a Michigan fan, but it is the most iconic without a doubt
Perfect. You have captured not only great fight songs but also great football traditions (over a long haul vs. last few decades) and academic institutions with some or even great scholastic standing too... you've left out some go the recent quasi-university NFL AAA team blight. Thanks.
My school uses some of these songs and plays them one minute before the bell is about to ring for you to be late. Im glad I could find some of them
For you to be late. Lol
Something about USCs fight song is soooo good. Even scarier when they’re really good
Disney's Robin Hood uses both USC and Wisconsin's fight songs in a scene
I'm an msu fan and Michigan fight song is the best in my opinion
I’m a Michigan fan but Sparty’s fight song is fire
What about "On Wisconsin"? That one certainly belongs in here!
My personal Top 5:
1. Rocky Top
2. Hail To The Victors
3. Notre Dame's Fight Song
4. Georgia's Fight Song
5. Texas's Fight Song
Die hard Georgia fan. No way ripping off “glory glory hallelujah” for “glory glory for ol’ georgia” is a good fight song much less top 5.
Amusing that UGA picked "Battle Hymn of the Republic" considering that mostly of their fans are Confederates.
Country y
NUMBER 3??? NO WAY, MY HEART RACES EVERY TIME I HEAR "THE VICTORS"!!!!!
I know right!
Joe Wright Lets go blue ang beat ohio state this weekend
Song blows 🤪
John Philip Sousa said Michigan was the best ever
Michigan ND and USC are all classics but nothing beats the Aggie war hymn
Arkansas is so underrated. Hell they are all great. How can one not love college sports??
Nothing beats my Texas fight song but damn, USC has a beautiful fight song.
Jerry Watkins ohio
Go BUCKS! Best marching band
It should be Texas #1 USC #2 and whatever with the rest. But Notre Dame is so overrated. It sounds like a freaking Christmas Carol. Like have they ever heard of this great thing called BRASS? Apparently not.. at least Texas and USC use their brass.
I don’t know what brass is if notre dame’s fight song doesn’t include it bud.
All you bucks out there may have a really good band but GO BLUE
Michigan: "Hail to the Victors" should've be number one!!!! COMING FROM A PAC-12 FAN!!!!!
Texas A&M War Hymn is in my opinion the best but not gonna lie USC and Michigan fight songs gives me goosebumps
Texas A&M song sucks
How the hell is "On Wisconsin" not on this list?? That's as iconic a fight song as there is in the country!!
Agreed!
‘Poli Sci ‘68
Top 25, yes. Not top 10. And I’m unbiased because that was my high schools fight song
Id have to say the top 3 fight songs are interchangeable in order depending on the persons preference
So True! My order Michigan, USC and Notre Dame
As a Michigan Fan, I can declare with confidence that Victory for MSU should’ve been on here.
As a MSU fan, I agree with this. Your fight song is fire, too
I’ve randomly whistled NDs fight song for what seems like my whole life, I could never remember who’s fight song it was so I came to this video lol thanks for clearing it up
Notre Dame is just another level
John Philip Sousa said the U of Michigan fight song was the BEST COLLEGE MARCHING SONG EVER WRITTEN!!! Ill go with him......
Love USC's 👍
ND’s fight song deserves number 1
Reminds me of watching the black and white highlight shows on TV in the 1950s. Very little live games on TV back then.
I can't believe Purdue isn't mentioned! Such an iconic sound. You left off a keeper
Oregon’s is way better
@@everythingsports8281 true,go ducks!
I'm from Indiana. Purdue has a good one, but nobody outside of this state knows it.
I like NC State's fight song! My favorite by far
I love it too 🎃
I am not from Georgia, nor am I a graduate or fan of Georgia Tech, but their fight song kicks ass, and is clearly the best.
Thank you. We do take pride in the Redcoat Band
+James Coleman You do realize he meant the Georgia TECH fight song, don't you?
+James Coleman Lol, he meant the YELLOW JACKET band. And we definitely have the best.
Sincerely, a member of the GT Band
I love these songs!
Nice job. Thanks very much.
With Oklahoma dominating football teams for decades, I feel we've heard their song more than "Thriller". Should be top-5.
Great review, yes Notre Dame and USC fight songs definitely belong in the top three!
USC’s is so badass.
RIGHT ON BROTHER!!!!!!!! LOVE IT, LOVELY NOTRE DAME
The Victors from Michigan is the best fight song ever.
2019 anyone?
me
2020
2020
Sorry man I landed in the shit hole
Percussion parts were surprisingly accurate
Pretty spot on top 3.
As a Michigan fan, Tennessee's is definitely my 2nd favorite.
Texas fight for me
That version of the victors was slow and boring. There is a much nicer version of it on TH-cam.
I mean it was 2010
But hey.... at least it wasn't as short as Boomer sooner
The victors is engraved in my mind
Love a good fight song. Our High School borrowed from Norte Dame. I do love it. Agree On Wisconsin needs to be there.
Michigan has a really nice and classic fight song my number 1 for sure 👍 ps and they have the beat unis aswell
Alabama's fight song sounds like a damn circus music who put that on this list is crazy
U wilding.
If only you knew the words
@@keatonjohns6685 you mean about beating teams bama hasn't played in 30 yrs song sucks
Better than Nebraska and Arkansas combine😂 should have been higher and rocky top should be #1
It sounds badass, I have it as my top 3
#1 USC
FIGHT ON !!!
Nothing beats my Irish fight song
Having bought a Professionally Done LP in the early 1960's while in grade school, which has the Top 30 College Fight Songs (Music and Words) I know them ll. Always considered Both of these in the Top 10. My Rankings of the BEST Collge Fight Songs: "On Wisconsin"( Long Version- Sorry I went to Wisconsin) "Maine Stiene Song", Notre Dame", "Fight that Team Across the Field" (Ohio State) , "Hail to te Victors" (michigan), "Southern Cal", "Hail to Pit" , "Rambling Reck From Georia Tech", "Minnesota Rouser", "Go You Northwestern", "The Eyes Of Texas", " Bula Bua" (Yale) "Glory Glory to Old Georgia"," Princeton Fight Song"
Florida State, Georgia, and Michigan have the most bone-chilling and distinctive fight songs in college football.
Notre Dame and USC are very distinctive and original as well
+KyleJPie10 Bull Sh#t
go dogs
+BenJammin M Cali *cough*
Excuse me...lol
Great video, every school could make an argument but I can't disagree with your selections.
Go IRISH!
raise her gold and blue, and cheer with voices true, rah! rah! for Notre Dame!
You definitely got the Top 3 right. Adding UCLA would have made it the perfect Top 4 (Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, Michigan), but at least you mentioned UCLA as an honorable mention.
NOTRE DAME!!! GO IRISH!!!
Notre Dame's fight song is my highschools fight song which I find weird because that's my favorite teams rival. Ohio State
@Storytimekellan3 oh I always thought they were. Hmm guess you learn something new everyday
Thanks for selecting USC in your compilation. Fight on!
Fight on
Fight On
Fight ON!✌
USC's is recognizable. ND, Texas, boomer sooner, also recognizable, but nearly half the others aren't. Shame shame.
Fight On
Without that fight song. There won't be Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football!!!
What about 12 national championships and another 14 not claimed by Notre Dame. That makes 26. You don't think that has anything to do with it do you. It's just the fight song?
Pretty solid list.
This is a weak rendition of "The Victors" :(
#1 on the field, #1 in your hearts, and the #1 Fight Song...... MEEEECHIGAN!
Not on field, not in my heart, and def not fight song
its ovbivously notre dame 100 percent
I'm a USC fan, and I'm glad to see Fight On ranked highly . . . but I agree with you. Michigan's fight song is absolutely unequalled. I get goosebumps when I hear it. ND's is good, but always overrated, just like the football team is.
@@clairethebearplays4463 nope
And last in the Big Ten East.
Nebraska' fight song is great because it's exactly like the songs our Grandpa McArthur sang to my brothers, sisters and I before he died :)
This brings me back to NCAA 12
I liked 11
And Georgia Tech's - I'm a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech and a Hell-u-va Engineer - is not even on the honorable mentions? This is the coolest fight song in college.
I'm not a UVM fan, but The Victors is the greatest most recognizable college fight song in the country. Notre Dame should have been second.
This is a highly subjective task in the first place to be sure. Although your list is stellar and has some of the greats, I have to say that after recently hearing Iowa State's fight song I am a recent convert to that being in my personal top 10
The best fight song is usually the one team that has most touchdowns scored recorded. Then you can't get rid of that time. Hail To The Lion
Alabama's highkey sounds like Mickey Mouse😂
Not a Michigan fan, but their fight song tops it all.
sounds like ballet music bro
Hail to the cheaters!!
@@SMAY0001tbh, I think that since Michigan was able to beat teams like Penn State and Ohio State, knowing they didn't have signals and I'm pretty sure no head coach for both those games, the sign stealing had nothing to do with them being good.
Im a Nole' til' i die,(and some more after that) but that damn Michigan fight song makes me want to suit up, seek, and destroy.......
This fight song for "rock top" sounded great
Michigan has the best fight song. The best tradition, the winningest football program of all time, with 11 National Championships to boot! However, Notre Dame's fight song should be second (Colorado State plagiarized their song), and USC should be third.
Only Michigan fans think they have 11 MNCs. What really counts is this: since college football became a major national sport (AP era), Michigan has 3 MNC, and only one since Truman's second inauguration.
jasonth13 And only Notre Dame and Ohio Buckeye fans think Michigan doesn't have 11 National Championships. Mic Drop....
Better pick that mic back up. I'm not a fan of either of those teams -- or any other Big 10 team. I don't pull for Ohio State against anyone.
Bzzzt. Still wrong. Hate ND only slightly less than I hate Ohio State. Try again, dumbshit. :)
LOL. Denying your intelligence? Gladly! :)
Here's a hint: My school leads yours in the all-time series. My school has more than double the number of national championships that Michigan has in the AP era.
I've always liked Michigan. I've mostly just felt sorry for them. All those nice seasons with no MNCs under Bo, with the best of those seasons usually ending in a loss when they came out west. So sad. :(
This deserved a like just because he put ND at #1, good choice
Darius Stewart nd sucks btw
My high school has the same fight song as USC
My Nittany Lions best fight song and stadium by far, loudest as well!!! Enough said
Texas shout be number one by far...
Omar Gonzalez No no no
Crimson Freak yes yes yes🤘
I knew Notre Dame was going to be the first one yes
Definitely agree with #1
I love a lot of these Fight Songs. I'm from TN. -
Good list but USC is definitely number 1 and they literally have two well known themes within one, the better part of the USC theme starts around 40 seconds into the piece whereas you posted the lessor IMHO!
What about Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Army and Navy.
John Mac holy crap yes forgot about Navy - totally iconic. Agree on Wisconsin.
Lucky
The USC fight on song is the best.
Rocky Top is the best of these. And I say this as a Miami fan.
Ladies, ladies, calm down. We all know the Notre Dame had the most recognizable fight song in all of college sports.
TacoZebra99 nah it’s Arkansas
I've always liked Oklahoma's fight song
Great fight song
Are you aware that it’s a rip-off of Yale’s fight song?
It's nice but the last couple games this past year that is the ONLY thing the damn band would play it was insufferable to listen to everything single play
Considering that Michigan taught Notre Dame how to play football 🏈 we should definitely be #1
The Notre Dame fight song is by far the most famous and the best. I grew up all over the United States. I heard of that high schools and middle schools I went to. I saw it on TV. Like happy days and other television shows. I never heard none of the other ones anywhere except for at their games. The USC fight song is really good. An old rocky tops pretty good too. But the Notre Dame one is the best. In the Michigan wanting nothing
Notre Dame's fight song is a classic, but "The Victors" is overall a better song and one could say it is a musical masterpiece. John Phillip Sousa himself praised and even conducted it. Good video though
The victors doesn’t even have any syncopation. Bad take
The band spells out "IRISH" and plays the greatest of all University Fight songs: THE NOTRE DAME VICTORY MARCH!
GO IRISH!
It the best note dame I love Ohio state fight song ucla fight song
coachfb18 FIGHTING IRISH ALL THE WAY BABY
@@Tw1tchYt love Notre dame coach lou Holtz, good old days
lloyd kline. Ew. ND I get, but UCLA? Ewww. They couldn’t even come up with their own song lmao. They had to steal it.
@@wishihadavette_2517 the victors is the best & yall know it.
#8 good ol JR
I see Rocky Top made the list...its definitely legendary...
Hail, to the victors valiant. Hail to the conquering hero's, Hail, Hail! to Michigan the champions of the west. Go Blue!
Go Blue!!!!
Hail to the victors valiant. Hail to the conquering heroes. Hail, hail! To Ohio State the Champions of the East!
@Mike Wack 67 NO…
@@pzavis25 YES
@Mike Wack 67 NOOOOOO!!
Where's On Wisconsin? Probably 4 or 5!! Not even here!
thank you. finally someone who can at leats respect us. almost all of the bama fans all they do is bash us and hate on us. and ur right, may the best team win. Go Irish!
Great!
Is this the Top 10 fight songs, or the fight songs of the all-time Top 10 teams?
Edward Gehringer why would Arkansas be here then lmao
@@royalnpoison1547 exactly 😂💯
@@royalnpoison1547 lmao
Where's the theme from Coach?! I am outraged at this atrocity!
That's how I ended up here! Lol
This makes me miss ncaa football video games
Other than Michigan and Notre Dame they all sound like Saturday morning cartoon themes or drag show pomposities. However, Notre Dame has only one musical motif in there....Michigan's has 3 movements that all build splendidly and even employs key change.
the song was performed during a concert by United States Marine Band leader and "March King" John Philip Sousa. Sousa held the song in high regard: "No one but a master of counterpoint could have conceived the splendid harmony that marks the composition throughout," the bandleader said.