Boise State may have left Eugene with a 34-27 loss to No. 2 Oregon, but the Broncos also walked into one of the louder little beefs of the weekend.
With the game tied 24-24 and the fourth quarter about to begin, Boise State’s entire team started dancing as “Shout” rang out over the Autzen Stadium speakers. That’s not just any song in Eugene. Oregon has made the Isley Brothers classic part of its home-game identity, playing it before the fourth quarter at every home game since 2010 in tribute to “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” which was largely filmed on the university’s campus.
Not everyone in green and yellow found the moment charming.
“They were having their fun, but I kind of took it as a little disrespect because it’s our song,” Oregon senior tight end Jamari Johnson said after the game. “You’ve got no business dancing to our song.”
Johnson’s complaint carried a bit of irony, since Oregon had pulled off the same kind of move against Wisconsin in 2024. The Ducks joined in when Wisconsin played House of Pain’s “Jump Around” before the fourth quarter, turning the Badgers’ own tradition into a stadium-wide celebration.
Johnson wasn’t on Oregon’s roster then - he was still at Louisville - but senior quarterback Dante Moore was around for that one, and he wasn’t bothered by Boise State’s version on Saturday.
“They were just doing something that we’ve done before, and that’s just trying to flip your mind when you’re playing away, to try to steal the juice from the crowd,” Moore said. “We saw it, we laughed at it, we went out there and put up points on the board.”
Oregon did exactly that, scoring 10 points in the final quarter to finish off the Broncos. The decisive play came when Moore hit Dakorien Moore on a 62-yard touchdown to deliver the game-winner.
Boise State’s celebration wasn’t random, either. Head coach Spencer Danielson said after the game that the Broncos had spent all of fall camp planning to hijack Oregon’s tradition, and had been playing “Shout” throughout camp.
“We played the ‘Shout’ song every time, knowing that, hey, this is what it’s going to be,” Danielson said. “Regardless of what the score is, we have to be a team that plays our best in the fourth quarter, and we’re going to have a lot of joy.”
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