College football fans were left in awe of Coco Jones’ performance of the National Anthem before the College Football Playoff final between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Grammy winner Jones, 27, took to the field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to perform before kickoff on Monday night.
Jones is a Grammy-Award winner, having taken home the honor in the ‘Best R&B Performance’ category for her song ‘ICU’.
And, on the same day as Donald Trump‘s inauguration, she stole the show with her performance of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.
ESPN broadcast the performance in full just weeks after the network was slammed for not showing it before the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, which had been moved by a day after the New Year’s Day terror attacks in the city killed 14 people.
And viewers went wild for Jones’ performance and took to social media before kickoff to express their delight.
College football fans were left in awe of Coco Jones’ performance of the National Anthem
Jones sang before the College Football Playoff final between Ohio State and Notre Dame
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One viewer wrote: ‘Coco Jones is killing it! What a voice.’
Another commented: ‘Never heard of Coco Jones until tonight, and that’s a shame. She just sang one of the best versions of the anthem I’ve ever head. Beautifully done’.
A third posted: ‘Coco Jones casually dropping a Whitney Houston level National Anthem rendition. Wow.’
‘Coco Jones doing her THANG on this anthem!!!!!’, another commented.
Another added: ‘Carrie Underwood at the inauguration today, and Coco Jones singing the national anthem at the FBS championship game tonight, just wow!’
The 27-year-old Jones was the third straight Grammy winner to perform the national anthem at college football’s title game.
The last two national-anthem performers were acapella group Pentatonix and R&B singer and former American Idol winner Fantasia.
Jones is again nominated for two Grammy Awards at this year’s ceremony, which takes place next month.
This year’s, it’s Jones’ song ‘Here We Go (Uh Oh)’ which has her nominated for ‘Best R&B Performance’ and ‘Best R&B Song’.
Jones is a Grammy-Award winner, having taken home the honor in the ‘Best R&B Performance’
Recently ESPN chief Burke Magnus admitted the network made ‘an enormous mistake’ not showing the national anthem before the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
But Magnus blamed ‘human error’ after neither ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ nor the moment of silence were shown on the main broadcast following the deadly terror attack, which killed 14 people and injured a further 35.
College football fans were left furious, with one branding ESPN ‘disgusting’ and former anchor Sage Steele accusing the network of deliberately skipping the anthem before Notre Dame faced Georgia at Caesars Superdome.
But Magnus, ESPN’s president of content, insists the network feels ‘terrible’ about the incident and ‘should be held to account’ over it.
‘There are a group of people in Bristol who just made an enormous mistake,’ he told The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.
‘It was a human error, it happens. I don’t want to minimize it by any stretch but nothing was normal about that next day – including our programming lineup.’
