Luke Combs & Bailey Zimmerman’s “Backup Plan” Is The 2025 SEC Theme Song, & New Video Will Have You HYPED For Football Season

Football season is getting CLOSE…

And thank goodness, because I don’t think I can wait much longer. The first week of college football is called “Week Zero,” and on Saturday, August 23rd, we will officially be back in full swing at campuses across the country.

I love the NFL, but for me, absolutely nothing compares to the electricity of a college football Saturday… now I’m biased because I get to watch at the best stadium in the world for six Saturday’s in the fall in Boone, North Carolina, but I’m sure most of you feel the same way at your alma mater so you share in my excitement and anticipation that we’re getting close now that July is halfway over.

With the promise of a new college football season comes the rollout of tons of new proms and media, and today was the perfect day to drop this new teaser as the first day of SEC Media week (it’s four days in total) gets underway in Atlanta.

Luke Combs is a favorite in terms of his songs being used for college football theme songs on different networks, and last year, the SEC Network used Combs’ cover of Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” as the leading tune for the season. In 2021, the SEC Network used Luke’s song “South On Ya” as the theme, which was my personal favorite.

And this year, Combs will once again be the voice of the SEC Network alongside his collaborator Bailey Zimmerman as their song “Backup Plan” will be the official anthem of the SEC on ABC. I’ll be honest, I really was not a fan of this song when it first came out, which is no shade to Luke… I’m just not a Bailey Zimmerman fan, so it just didn’t do anything for me. But after seeing the teaser with the song as the backdrop with SEC highlights and knowing footballs season is right around the corner, I might be coming around to it a little bit more, to be honest.

The song was released in May as the second single from Zimmerman’s upcoming second album Different Night Same Rodeo, and it was written by Jimi Bell, Jon Sherwood and Tucker Beathard. I didn’t think anything would really change my mind on that, but of course with Combs on it there’s some inherent redeeming value there, and I think I might be a little blinded by the football season excitement too that I’m prepared to like anything because I know the release of this video is a great sign for what’s right around the corner.

I mean, Luke Combs and college football just go together like peanut butter and jelly, and there’s a reason he is continually featured on the college football network themes:

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