Saturday night the #3 ranked Seminoles of Florida State (my alma mater) will take on the #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in Atlanta. This will be the first college football game in Atlanta’s new Chick-fil-A Stadium, and it’s the biggest Week 1 game in the history of college football. That’s not hyperbole. You can hate Bama and FSU all you want, but never before have two teams ranked this high faced off in Week 1 of the college football season.
To hype up this game, ESPN foolishly used Taylor Swift‘s dumpster fire new song ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ in a promo video:
Look What You Made Me Do#reputation #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo pic.twitter.com/0UdrsX6GfM
— ESPN (@espn) August 25, 2017
College football fans, myself included, are extremely not okay with ESPN using this garbage ass song to hype up the biggest Week 1 game in history. As you might expected, the Twitter reactions are nothing short of spectacular:
https://twitter.com/martinrickman/status/902320820550123520
https://twitter.com/Travis_Waldron/status/902342005795278849
https://twitter.com/GregTalbott/status/900939947997143041
This Taylor Swift bumper music for ESPN CFB is going to make you beg for Fall Out Boy's Centuries to come back.
— Kyle Koster (@KyleKoster) August 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/FrederickHoll/status/901099357637947392
— Taylor Haase (@TaylorHaasePGH) August 25, 2017
— 🐐 🧀 (@AARONR0DGERS) August 25, 2017
— KJ (@thegentleman4) August 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/GeraldBourguet/status/902256039847878657
https://twitter.com/CollinGinnan/status/902321254815993856
https://twitter.com/MaxGbaud/status/900936317491585024
Get that Taylor Swift bullshit off of anything that features college football and especially FSU
— Ev aka CFB Playoff Committe is Corrupt (@EStanek) August 26, 2017
And you wonder why your network is going by the wayside… This song is trash and in no way should be tied to football
— Micky Cincy (@TheCincyKid22) August 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/Official_EFOC/status/901452473218592768
For The Win reached out to ESPN to see if they’d be playing Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ all season long as their official anthem of the 2017/2018 college football season but they didn’t hear back.
For the love of god, please let it only be this week. It’s already bad enough that they’re using this shitty ass song to hype up a game I’m so emotionally invested in as an alumnus and fan but I can’t go an entire season listening to this garbage at every commercial break.