Fans all say the same thing about Coco Jones' National Anthem performance before Notre Dame-Ohio State CFP final

College shot fans were near successful awe of Coco Jones' show of the National Anthem earlier the College Football Playoff last betwixt the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Grammy victor Jones, 27, took to the tract astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta to execute earlier kickoff connected Monday night.

Jones is simply a Grammy-Award winner, having taken location the grant successful the 'Best R&B Performance' class for her opus 'ICU'. 

And, connected the aforesaid time arsenic Donald Trump's inauguration, she stole the amusement with her show of 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.

ESPN showed the show successful afloat conscionable weeks aft the network was slammed for not showing it before the Sugar Bowl successful New Orleans, which had been moved by a time aft the New Year's Day panic attacks successful the metropolis killed 14 people.

And viewers went chaotic for Jones' show and took to societal media earlier kickoff successful Atlanta to explicit their delight.

One spectator wrote: 'Coco Jones is sidesplitting it! What a voice.'

Another commented: 'Never heard of Coco Jones until tonight, and that's a shame. She conscionable sang 1 of the champion versions of the anthem I've ever head. Beautifully done'.

A 3rd posted: 'Coco Jones casually dropping a Whitney Houston level National Anthem rendition. Wow.'

'Coco Jones doing her THANG connected this anthem!!!!!', different commented.

Another added: 'Carrie Underwood astatine the inauguration today, and Coco Jones singing the nationalist anthem astatine the FBS title crippled tonight, conscionable wow!'

The 27-year-old Jones was the 3rd consecutive Grammy winner to execute the nationalist anthem astatine assemblage football's rubric game. 

The past 2 national-anthem performers were acapella radical Pentatonix and R&B vocalist and former American Idol winner Fantasia. 

Jones is again nominated for 2 Grammy Awards astatine this year's ceremony, which takes spot adjacent month. 

This year's, it's Jones' opus 'Here We Go (Uh Oh)' which has her nominated for 'Best R&B Performance' and 'Best R&B Song'.

Jones is from Tennessee and does not look to person a rooting involvement successful the nationalist championship. 

Notre Dame and Ohio State volition play successful the nationalist title crippled to reason the archetypal 12-team College Football Playoff. 

The Buckeyes person not won a nationalist title since 2014, the archetypal twelvemonth of the 4-team CFP. 

Recently ESPN chief Burke Magnus admitted the web made 'an tremendous mistake' not showing the nationalist anthem earlier the Sugar Bowl successful New Orleans.

But Magnus blamed 'human error' aft neither 'The Star-Spangled Banner' nor the infinitesimal of soundlessness were shown connected the main broadcast pursuing the deadly panic attack, which killed 14 radical and injured a further 35.

College shot fans were near furious, with 1 branding ESPN 'disgusting' and erstwhile anchor Sage Steele accusing the web of deliberately skipping the anthem earlier Notre Dame faced Georgia astatine Caesars Superdome.

But Magnus, ESPN's president of content, insists the web feels 'terrible' astir the incidental and 'should beryllium held to account' implicit it.

'There are a radical of radical successful Bristol who conscionable made an tremendous mistake,' helium told The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. 

'It was a quality error, it happens. I don't privation to minimize it by immoderate agelong but thing was mean astir that adjacent time - including our programming lineup.'