Luke Combs just dropped the new song “South On Ya,” which has been chosen as the SEC network’s 2021 college football anthem. While the song may be new to fans, it isn’t a new one for Luke, who actually wrote it several years ago.

“I wrote that song in a parking lot in Orange Beach, Alabama, a couple years ago,” he tells iHeartRadio. “Me and some friends had got a lead that the SEC was looking for a song to kind of go hand in hand with football season, and we wrote this great song.”

Luke says while “it didn’t work out at the time,” he believes “everything happens for a reason,” and it finally got picked after he sent it to his friend Marty Smith at ESPN. The 2021 season of SEC Football games debuts September 2nd.