Video taking off 75x its usual first day

Luke Combs' football story gets Brandon Spikes' confirmation

Bussin' With The Boys puts an old high-school memory in front of the linebacker who inspired it.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 347,176 views a day, 75 times a normal first day on this channel (4,655).

Brandon Spikes Confirms Luke Combs’ Wild High School Story Was Actually True | Bussin'

The coach's opening-play plan was to run straight at Brandon Spikes. In Luke Combs' telling, that decision did not survive contact with the linebacker.

Bussin' With The Boys revisits the country singer's high-school football memory with Spikes sitting alongside hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan. They play him the earlier interview clip, giving the subject of the story a chance to respond.

Combs recalls Spikes knocking down the fullback and tackling the running back, then wearing a piece of the ball carrier's hair around his wrist. Spikes laughs at the recollection and confirms it: "That's a true story." The excerpt turns a guest's extraordinary football anecdote into an encounter with the person he was talking about.

The Short drew about 264,000 views in its first 14 hours, far beyond the channel's usual opening-day audience for the format. Another Spikes excerpt, about his hit on Ryan Fitzpatrick, also made an unusually fast start, though the Combs recollection drew the larger audience.

The comments reach beyond this particular play. Several viewers share their own memories of facing future professional athletes at school, including Todd Gurley and Joe Burrow. One recalls forcing a Gurley fumble while conceding that the rest of the game still belonged very much to Gurley.

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What viewers say

We played Todd Gurley in a 1A high school game and I hit him so hard he fumbled the ball out of bounds. That’s the highlight of my career. He still ran for about 350 that game with 4tds but you have to take the win where you can get it.
@TheshopownerSee it on YouTube
I played against Joe burrow my junior year lol scored a lotta points and broke some Ohio state records on us😂
@woodyallen570See it on YouTube
“First play” straight to “That was the end of the game” 😂
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The facts

Channel: Bussin' With The Boys
Subscribers: 736,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 2,476,043
Channel views, pace per day: 120,790 (on a normal day: 463,351)
Video published: October 20, 2026
Video views so far: 263,907 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 347,176

The numbers

The Combs-Spikes excerpt is well ahead of the channel's usual start for Shorts. Its views so far are shown below, alongside the estimated first-day pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

4,655

this video

347,176

subscribers

736,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

511,432,596

views per day

120,790