50 Best Country Songs About Football
Top Country Tracks Celebrating Football Culture
There’s a certain charge in the air when the first whistle blows. It’s part small-town Friday nights under flickering stadium lights, part tailgate haze with the smell of burgers mixing with cut grass. Everyone’s carrying something into the game. Maybe it’s the pressure of the season, maybe it’s the need to forget everything else for a few hours. Country music taps right into that space, wrapping the noise of the crowd and the rhythm of the field into a sound that feels like you’re standing right there on the sideline.
These aren’t polished halftime anthems meant for a glossy TV montage. They’re songs that carry the grit of a worn leather football, the creak of metal bleachers, and the adrenaline that comes from a last-minute drive. The stories they tell feel like they’ve been lived by someone in the stands or in the huddle. You hear echoes of the same energy you’d find in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that live for moments when the stakes feel too high to breathe, yet you wouldn’t be anywhere else.
The best tracks here don’t float above the game. They sink into it, mixing the smack of shoulder pads with the swell of a chorus that refuses to let up. Some of them swagger, some of them ache, and some leave you grinning with a mouth full of cold air. Here’s the best country songs that lock into the heartbeat of football.
Top 10 Football Country Songs
1. 'The Boys of Fall'—Kenny Chesney
2. 'All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over for Monday Night Football'—Hank Williams Jr.
3. 'Waiting All Day for Sunday Night'—Carrie Underwood
4. 'Country Nation'—Brad Paisley
5. 'South on Ya'—Luke Combs
6. 'The Ball'—James Otto
7. 'Drinkin' Town With a Football Problem'—Billy Currington
8. 'Tennessee Orange'—Megan Moroney
9. 'Friday Night'—Brantley Gilbert
10. 'Had Me by Halftime'—Morgan Wallen
Country Football Songs #11—20
11. '21 to 17'—Neal McCoy
12. 'Indian Summer'—Brooks & Dunn
13. 'Home Game'—Cole Swindell
14. 'And The Crowd Goes Wild'—Mark Wills
15. 'Dixieland Delight'—Alabama
16. 'Y'all Life'—Walker Hayes
17. 'I Hate Alabama'—Conner Smith
18. 'Tennessee Fan'—Morgan Wallen
19. 'Five More Minutes'—Scotty McCreery
20. 'Red Solo Cup'—Toby Keith
Country Songs with a Football Theme #21—30
21. 'God, Girls, and Football'—Mitch Rossell
22. 'Coach'—Kenny Chesney
23. 'Underdogs'—Chris Young
24. 'The Underdog'—Aaron Watson
25. 'The Champion'—Carrie Underwood featuring Ludacris
26. 'Big Orange T'—Old Crow Medicine Show
27. 'Orange And White'—Conner Smith
28. 'I'm a Vol for Life Y'all'—Matt Stillwell
29. 'Burnt Orange'—Clayton Mullen
30. 'Love Ya Son, Go Dawgs'—Ray Fulcher
More Country Songs About Football #31—40
31. 'Nineteen'—Billy Ray Cyrus
32. 'Holler Back (Football Remix)'—The Lost Trailers
33. 'Famous Friends'—Chris Young featuring Kane Brown
34. 'The Nebraska Song'—Sawyer Brown
35. 'Heart For Just One Team'—Randy Rogers Band
36. 'Every Dawg Has Its Day'—Corey Smith
37. 'My Hometown'—Charlie Robison
38. 'Speed Trap Town'—Jason Isbell
39. 'Chicken Fried'—Zac Brown Band
40. 'Parking Lot Party'—Lee Brice
Country Songs for Football Tailgates #41—50
41. 'That's My Kind of Night'—Luke Bryan
42. 'American Spirit'—Wade Bowen
43. 'Back Then Right Now'—Tyler Hubbard
44. 'Crushin' It'—Brad Paisley
45. 'Southern Voice'—Tim McGraw
46. 'I Like It, I Love It'—Tim McGraw
47. 'These Are My People'—Rodney Atkins
48. 'The More I Drink'—Blake Shelton
49. 'My Kinda Party'—Jason Aldean
50. 'Unanswered Prayers'—Garth Brooks
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