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Ultimate college football kickoff weekend playlist

By Michael Collins

Sep 5, 2015; Atlanta, GA, USA; Fans tailgate prior to the game between the Auburn Tigers and Louisville Cardinals in the 2015 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; Atlanta, GA, USA; Fans tailgate prior to the game between the Auburn Tigers and Louisville Cardinals in the 2015 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports /
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No. 49: Van Halen – Jump

Year Released: 1983
Billboard Hot 100 Chart Peak: 1

This song is a standard on just about any playlist, but has great tie-ins to college football highlights with wide receivers and defensive backs jumping to make circus catches, or running backs taking a huge dive over a pile of humanity.

Can you really listen to this song and not air-drum along with Alex Van Halen?

Van Halen’s only U.S. number one hit during the David Lee Roth era will undoubtedly keep the kickoff party going, despite one of the greatest guitarists of this era spending too much of the song diddling on a synthesized keyboard.

More bandanas, please, David.

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