ohsooso;841952996 said:

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By the way, most of the Big 10 bands play the opposition's fight song in pregame, even for league games. The Cal band did this for Washington once and the crowd didn't really like it.

As for Ohio State's band, I like Wisconsin's as much if not more, but that's saying a lot (I did my grad school at Michigan, and that band is great, but while I was there I was more impressed with the other two). Execution and sound quality for all three are terrific, the difference came down to creativity of halftime shows, the interaction with the crowd and other small things.

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My issues with Wisconsin is that straddle hop marching style. It just irks me.

Also they do not believe in memorizing the music. (They use sheet music even for their own fight song) This is hearsay, but someone told me that they thought it was pointless to memorize music.

MoragaBear;841953277 said:

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Easily solved by having an H on one side of the flag and an I on the other.

Why should half the stadium see a misspelling of your state?

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Because you're supposed to read front to back?

GB54;841952437 said:

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You should add with a real life appearance by John Glenn

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Good point. Was going to add that but got distracted by a rerun of Battlestar Galactica on SciFi.

Coqui;841953370 said:

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My issues with Wisconsin is that straddle hop marching style. It just irks me.

Also they do not believe in memorizing the music. (They use sheet music even for their own fight song) This is hearsay, but someone told me that they thought it was pointless to memorize music.

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Totally agree with that hard to watch Wisconsin hopping step thing. Really hard to watch along with those red and white uniforms.

The Cal Band did not memorize their music for pregame and halftimes until they saw the OSU Band do that at the 1973 Rose Bowl.