The Famous Maroon Band plays at all Mississippi State home football games and sends at least a pep band to a majority of the football away games (except for ones that are too far to travel to, such as when Mississippi State played at Arizona in 2022).

[2] In the university's new Junction area outside Davis Wade Stadium, the Famous Maroon Band performs and cheers on the crowds and the team at Dawg Walk.

The MSU Drumline also performs in exhibition in front of the Leo Seal M Club Centre two hours before kickoff.

The band then plays a patriotic song that is changed every few years, currently American Celebration (You're a Grand Ole Flag), during the presentation of the colors, which is followed by the Star Spangled Banner.

The band then scatters into the STATE spellout while Davis Wade Stadium erupts with ringing cowbells.