Preseason college football hype videos are like the visual incarnation of the term “bittersweet.”
In the long summer months, as college football fans await the upcoming season, nothing helps more than watching the great moments your team produced on the field from the previous year to get you through the dull and long period in between games.
At the same time, those same videos can get a fan so excited for the coming of fall that the summer months seem to last longer than they did before viewing the hype video.
Nonetheless, it still remains completely worth it.
However, when it comes to creating a good hype video, there is a lot that goes into it.
From song selection and theme to photos and highlights, every last element adds to the overall effect. The right choice in any of these categories can make an average video outstanding. The wrong one can make the best intentions the worst of products.
The following is a list of the greatest college football hype videos for the upcoming 2010 season.
No. 7: Notre Dame Football 2010 re release/By: Bigseanpower10
“Notre Dame Football 2010 re release” isn’t the best edited, best highlighted, or best commentary out of all the Notre Dame football hype videos.
However, what it lacks in fundamentals it more than makes up for in heart.
“Notre Dame Football 2010 re release” encapsulates everything that a college football hype video should be.
The song coupled with the clips gets any person pumped for the upcoming season. Big hits, big plays, and fast-paced rock and roll all mix together for a cocktail that tastes like victory a month before a game has ever been played.
The video still retains its lighthearted and for-love-of-the-game feel, but at the same time adds in a pace and beat that gets your blood pumping and your mind ready to go put on the pads and play some football.
No. 6: 2010 USC Football Stadium Entrance/By: ybsmooth
“2010 USC Football Stadium Entrance” isn’t a bad video, but it sort of wins by default. In searching through different college football teams’ hype videos, this particular one was the only video that showed up when it came to USC.
Luckily, the video is pretty decent. The quality, editing, and soundtrack all provide for the “pump up” feeling one wants when they watch a hype video.
It definitely gets Trojan fans psyched for football season to overtake the hunting season that has gone on in southern California.
Although it fits the classification of a “hype video”, there are some obvious problems. Namely, there are multiple videos of Reggie Bush evading defenders (something a lot of fans definitely don’t want to see right now), and the video is way too short—a little less than a minute and a half.
However, the camera shot behind the team in the tunnel is one of the more epic college football clips I’ve ever seen.
No. 5: 2010 Ohio State Buckeyes Movie Trailer – The Fleet/By: Kitchel22130
Ohio State’s hype video follows the same path and method a lot of teams do: create a highlight reel, throw some classical music behind it, and add some commentary to make a football preview feel like a movie preview.
Although the music is kind of slow and the method is overused, the video subtly (maybe unintentionally) brings up a good point.
That point being: For how well they’ve played and how much talent they have, the Buckeyes have gone too long without winning a national championship.
With Terrelle Pryor on Heisman watch, a high-powered offense, and an always strong defense, Ohio State needs to be playing for the crystal ball come January.
No. 4: Bama Football 2010 Hype – “This is the beginning”/By: Gulfcoasttiger
From a “Bear” Bryant opening to a Nick Saban finish, “Bama Football 2010 Hype – This is the beginning” is packed full with Crimson Tide dominance.
The video opens with some historic footage of the Tide rolling right over their opponents.
After that point, the camera cuts to a new angle, and everything you see is tainted through the lens of crimson.
The lens is reminiscent of the point of view of The Terminator. As the previous years when the team won the national championship scroll along the side of the screen, like the Terminator, you know the Tide has one target and one target only going into the 2010 season.
However, the video only comes in at No. 4 on this year’s list because the fact of the matter is when you’re the returning national champions, returning last year’s Heisman running back, and the preseason No. 1 favorite, you don’t need a video to get hyped up for the season—you’re already as hyped as can be.
No. 3: LSU Football 2010 HYPE Video - ...Waiting/By: KtownTigerV2
"LSU Football 2010 HYPE Video - ...Waiting” gives you the exact feeling of what it’s like to attend an SEC football game.
The soundtrack is excellent—even though they’re from Australia, for some reason, Jet’s song has a Southern feel to it.
Watching the stadium fill up over the course of a day, showing the great tailgating, great food, great women, and great football, this video would make you think you’ve got two tickets to LSU paradise in your hand for seven o’clock tonight.
And then comes the best part of this video, which outshines all other videos in this category: the hits.
A lot of hype videos tend to concentrate solely on big offensive plays, but truth be told, most fans would rather see a guy get pummeled for three seconds rather than a guy running by himself with no one to catch him for 20 seconds.
There is a large concentration on defense and big hits in this video, and for that reason, it is one of the top hype videos heading into 2010.
Florida’s hype video is incredibly unique compared to a lot of schools.
It’s part hype video, part Discovery Channel documentary—which in the end just adds to the hype of the video.
The soundtrack works out perfectly as well. 90 percent of the time, any song in a hype video without words is going to be a classical rendition. If it does turn out to be a techno song, it’s usually not a good one.
In the case of "Florida Intimidation", "Genesis" by Justice is the perfect medium between a beat-oriented song you can bob your head to and a pump-up song that makes you excited once you hear it.
The use of a real version of your team’s mascot was an ingenious move by the creator. When the gators come out of the water or open those eyeballs and peer into your soul, it honestly makes you scared to ever go down to “The Swamp.”
If you do decide to make the trip, the video makes you feel like one of two things is going to happen: (a) You’re going to lose your head on a hit from a vicious defense, or (b) you’re going to lose your head from a vicious gator chomp.
No. 1: My Time – Michigan Football 2010/By: 16goblue
Rounding out the top of the list for the best college football hype videos heading into the 2010 season is “My Time – Michigan Football 2010.”
There may be videos with more professional editing or songs whose lyrics sync up perfectly with the plays shown on the screen, but there isn’t a single video that does its job better—to hype you up for this year’s football season.
From the very beginning, the video sets a tone of getting work done. When 13th overall NFL draft pick Brandon Graham paces from side to side and pounds his chest to the rhythm of the bass, “My Time” lets you know that in 2010, it all gets laid on the line.
The theme of the song—to forget the past and seize the moment—goes in line perfectly with the mindset all Wolverine fans have as they approach the opening day kickoff.
When that toe hits the ball on Saturday, Sept. 4 at 3:30 pm, all this talk about sanctions, positions, and hot seats goes out the window. At that moment, the season becomes about one thing and one thing only—winning. This hype video packages that message perfectly.
Normally, slideshow pictures can detract from a hype video. After all, it is supposed to be a video, not a flip book.
In the case of this video, though, they enhance the overall piece. Between camera angles from hundreds of feet away and the fade to black between different video clips, we get full, bright, still photos of up-close intense action captured in a framed moment.
Perhaps the greatest moment of the entire video comes in its final shot (which I won’t give away).
If for no other reason, the lasting final image in this hype video makes it No. 1 heading into the 2010 season.
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