Ohio State: “Life is a highway” by Rascal Flatts. Yes, the version from Cars. We’re not trying to be nice here, which is why we both picked this song, and also why we’re reminding the world that Rascal Flatts came from the dungeon-world of Ohio and not anywhere in SEC country.
South Carolina: “Please please please let me get what I want” by Hootie and the Blowfish. Oh yes, reader: It’s real.
To be honest, it’s not a terrible cover, since Hootie and the Blowfish are basically a cover band that escaped the genre on accident.