Jake (Blake Jenner), a freshman pitcher, shows up at the team house with a crate full of LPs and an easy, slightly wary smile. He receives a mostly friendly welcome, though one guy is forthright about his distaste for pitchers. Jake’s roommate, wearing only underpants and cowboy boots, is talking on the phone with his girlfriend. The coach drops by to explain the rules — no women upstairs, no alcohol in the house — mostly so the audience can have the vicarious pleasure of watching as they’re broken.

Plot summary? The guys play Ping-Pong, practice baseball, tease one another mercilessly, smoke weed, listen to records and try to pick up girls, not really in that or any other order. There is mud-wrestling, half-naked Twister and a lot of casual sex. In the midst of it all, Jake pursues a crush on a theater major (Zoey Deutch), who invites him to a party. He gets to know his teammates, whose names are harder to keep track of than their defining attributes. There’s the sane one (J. Quinton Johnson), the vain one (Tyler Hoechlin), the philosopher (Glen Powell) and the “raw dog” (Juston Street), an arrogant fastballer with a ratty mustache and a hot temper. Also a secondary assortment of goofballs, dimwits and wingmen, each of whom gets at least one big play for the highlight reel.

The facial hair works along with the soundtrack, the cars and the clothes to conjure a 1980 that viewers who were around back then may find uncannily, even painfully realistic. “Everybody Wants Some!!,” which partakes of Mr. Linklater’s own recollections of Texas, baseball and college, unfolds in a mood of sweet, lascivious retrospect. Only four years of historical time separate it from “Dazed and Confused,” but the director is more than 20 years older now, and the greater distance shows. The high jinks in the earlier film were laced with anxiety and aggression: The pranks had a cruel edge, and there was a predatory vibe to some of the sexuality. When you are in your early 30s, as Mr. Linklater was back then, high school is not that far behind you.