fight-songs/fight-songs: 1

This table contains data behind the story Our Guide To The Exuberant Nonsense Of College Fight Songs.

fight-songs.csv contains data about fight songs from all schools in the Power Five conferences — the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC — plus Notre Dame. Some schools have more than one fight song, and some of the songs sanctioned as “official” by their schools aren’t the ones that fans sing out. We chose the songs that seemed best-known and best-loved. We also limited our analysis to the lyrics sung most regularly and also published by the school, so some verses were not included in the analysis. The tempo and length information come from the version of the song we chose from those available on Spotify.

Column definitions:

Column	Description
school	School name
conference	School college football conference
song_name	Song title
writers	Song author
year	Year the song written. Some values are Unknown
student_writer	Was the author a student? Some values are Unknown
official_song	Is the song the official fight song according to the university?
contest	Was the song chosen as the result of a contest?
bpm	Beats per minute
sec_duration	Duration of song in seconds
fight	Does the song say “fight”?
number_fights	Number of times the song says “fight”?
victory	Does the song say “victory”?
win_won	Does the song say “win” or “won”?
victory_win_won	Does the song say “victory,” “win” or “won”?
rah	Does the song say “rah”?
nonsense	Does the song use nonsense syllables (e.g. "Whoo-Rah" or "Hooperay")
colors	Does the song mention the school colors?
men	Does the song refer to a group of men (e.g. men, boys, sons, etc.)?
opponents	Does the song mention any opponents?
spelling	Does the song spell anything?
trope_count	Total number of tropes (fight, victory, win_won, rah, nonsense,colors, men, opponents, and spelling).
spotify_id	Spotify id for the song