College football season is here.

Just as the country buzzes with an anxious anticipation before every game, so too does every college stadium. Each team has its own way of pumping up its fans, and its players, before kickoff. Highlight videos, clips from movies, mascots, bands, smoke machines, and blaringly-loud sound systems all come together to bring stadiums to a fevered pitch, making a sound that can only be equaled by 100 locomotives steaming ahead at full speed. Locomotives with face paint on, of course.

Some are rooted deep in tradition, from Nebraska's Tunnel Walk to Tennessee's Running Through the T; while others have newer hair-raising entrances, like all of Blacksburg jumping together as Metallica's "Enter Sandman" plays at an ear-deafening level.

All of the Top 10 College Football Entrances are special in their own way, and all of them specialize in putting goose bumps on top of goose bumps while they rile up stadiums to delirious levels.

Don't let the recent lean years in Lincoln fool you - Nebraska still lays claim as one of the nation's elite programs: five national titles; 46 conference titles; three Heisman Trophy winners. And a game-day entrance that rivals any school's in the country, and sends 80,000-plus fans - collectively known as The Sea of Red - into a delirious fervor as their beloved Cornhuskers prepare to do battle on another crisp autumn day.

The Tunnel Walk, as it's known, started in 1994, and shows a highlight montage on their jumbo video board, before cutting to a live shot of the Huskers below, marching their way from the locker room to the field, the latter part of which is lined with fans. As they get closer, they all reach up and touch the lucky horseshoe that hangs above the door, just before two members of the National Guard throw open the large gates, allowing the Huskers to storm out.

Nebraska has their tunnel; Tennessee has their T.

Really, Tennessee's entrance begins hours before the game is set to begin, when the team takes the Vol Walk. But the real moment comes when they do the Running Through the T. Tennessee's band, the Pride of the Southland Marching Band, forms a large T, the Vols' logo that sits on the sides of their helmet, and the team comes storming through, before hanging a hard left to their bench. Clay Travis, life-long UT fan and author of On Rocky Top, got the chance to live out one of his childhood fantasies last year and join his team in Running Through the T: "Running onto the football fist at night, as the T splits open before you, it seems possible that you could jump into the air an take flight on the roaring yells of the Tennessee faithful. This is as close to the gladiatorial experience as exists in modern American society."

But the best entrance - at least, certainly the loudest - belongs to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a school located in rural Blacksburg, Virginia. You may know it better as Virginia Tech.

It starts with one side of the stadium, "LET'S GO...." The other side responds, "HOKIES". Then the bass line from Metallica's "Enter Sandman" starts. Fans begin jumping up and down. The band is lined up outside of the tunnel. The music hits the crescendo, the team rushes out of the tunnel, the fireworks explode, and Lane Stadium becomes one of the loudest stadiums in college football - and they haven't even started playing yet.

Is there a back-story to this entrance? Probably. But as you jump up and down like a madman somewhere deep in the mountains of Virginia, with Metallica's bass lines thumping against your brain, ready to watch your Hokies do battle on a crisp fall night, do you care? Probably not. It is football, and you are excited.