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The 10 Best College Mascots (Get Angry if You Disagree)

msn.foxsports.com — I was getting nervous there, wondering if they included Ralphie the Buffalo. I was getting ready to get mad that (I'm not biased or anything) the local team of my youth was not represented. But alas, the list is legit, and I will indeed submit the article.

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  • pennvneff, on 07/24/2008, -7/+78The list blows
    • Hetayis, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5I'm angry.
    • HumanGlitch, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6I'm angry too.
    • Linkin4, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5ERAGGGHHHHH
    • vroom171, on 07/25/2008, -3/+1Yale has bulldog called Handsome Dan.

      In fact, if you want to see obsession, check out this wikipedia article, which is a comprehensive history about every handsome dan and the tricks they knew: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsome_Dan
    • pennvneff, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2It's a shame this guy didn't make the list

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFxwOLbImcU&feature ...
    • elf25, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Obviously written by a Georgia Alumn. Expect that from Fox. Slobbering bulldogs are common as mascots. College, high school, truckers... Not worthy of #1 Mascot no matter how "great" the fball team think it is. Now consider a Saluki. THAT'S a mascot. There's only one school with enough imagination to select an egyptian hunting dog as their mascot. Maybe not as cool as a flaming spear but Chief Illiniwek got booted in Illinois.

      (and *****' collie? get real. What's with that? )
      • elf25, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1
        (and *****' collie? get real. What's with that? "What's the matter, Lassie? Did the Dean fall down a well? Is the coach trapped in a whore house? )
    • danomagnum, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1Needed Joe Miner.
      http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/REF/Joe_Miner_UMR_L ...
      a gun, a pickaxe, ... and a sliderule.
  • ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -3/+9Bevo was named after a 13-0 loss so it's funny the name has stuck around. Sidenote from my college days: Sparty may look cool but he stinks, literally; there is more spilled beer on that mascot than a NY bar after a pro wrestler visits, especially on a warm fall day.
    • utexas112, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2Wrong. The true origin of the name is conflicted, but the 13-0 story is just something the poor aggies like to rehash because that period, the 1920's, was when the aggies last had a winning team.

      Most likely the name was either invented by an editor of our school's newspaper, possibly as a result of the pop culture of the time. There had been a comic strip that added "o" to the end of people's names, you know, to jones them. So Chucky would become Chucky-o, etc.

      "Beeve" was slang for steer in the Texas days of old.. so the jump from "Beeve" to "Bevo" is much more plausible. Poor aggies.. just can't win anything.
    • progman445, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Nice to see this guy did his research.

      Bevo being named after the 13-0 loss is just aggie folklore. For those of you that don't follow the Big 12, do your research on A&M and how their behavior is borderline cult status.
  • mikerad86, on 07/24/2008, -5/+20I really don't understand how the Gamecocks didn't make that list...
  • bornahokie, on 07/24/2008, -12/+13HOKIES! Virginia Tech HOKIES are WAY BETTER than the Auburn double mascot, they don't even know what they are crap!
    • efitz11, on 07/25/2008, -2/+8Hokie Birrrrd!

      He benches 1000 lbs for every point we score in a game, lets see the bulldog do that *****
    • BBaileys, on 07/25/2008, -7/+5The Hokie is not a great mascot based on the origin of the name. The mascot came from the song The Hokie Pokie. Hokie is also the term for a castrated turkey. If a mascot was name the Virginia Tech Eunuch's or the Virginia Tech Macarena would you really be arguing this? The coolness of the Hokie name is about as good as the caliber of football teams in the ACC.
    • MrTito, on 07/25/2008, -3/+4We're the Auburn Tigers. War Eagle is a battle cry. It's pretty simple to understand if you're competent. Maybe you're just still a little bitter that Va Tech was the last team to fall to Auburn during our '04 undefeated season.
      • b3owulf, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1Seriously.... 04??

        How'd you do in the most recent year?
      • MrTito, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2^^ Didn't play Va Tech in the most recent year. Haven't played them since '04 (though, technically, that game was played very early in January 2005 but it's still the '04 season).

        Anyhow. So are you retarded or something?
    • kevin11atvt, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5hokies forever, the hokie bird is sooo pimp
    • brunevm, on 07/25/2008, -4/+3Haha seriously, this V-Tech fan is still crying about 2005 Sugar Bowl. At least we don't play the damn hokie pokie at last time.
    • hokie47, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5I am glad to see all the Hokies here on digg. College at VT is great, jumping up and down during sandman, the Hokie Bird, and strapping bottles of liquor to my legs and passing it around to my friends and sometimes strangers. I need to go back again soon.
    • basawyer, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5hokie for life
    • sublimer, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6I'm wearing my VT shirt right now! Actually, it's about all I own. I've never seen a school with as much spirit as us, and I've spent time at some fanatic schools like Texas and Penn State!

      STICK IT IN, STICK IT IN, STICK IT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • allothersnsused, on 07/25/2008, -3/+2Yes, Diggers, as a Virginia resident I can testify that all hokies are this annoying. Hard to believe for a program built around the Vick brothers... how are they doing lately anyway?
    • doddilus, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4wow i can really feel the love for VT
      seriously a college mascot list is required to have the Hokie Bird on it
    • Dycacian, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1War Eagle!!!
  • JGCollins, on 07/24/2008, -4/+4Delaware Blue Hens - the student section is called the "Cockpit". Enough said.
  • nafai, on 07/24/2008, -9/+12Dugg for Bucky Badger!

    Wisconsinites in general are totally crazy in their support for the Badgers...
    • Ryan166, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6and beer.
    • Lunchbox37, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Hell yes! Buckingham U. Badger, actually.

      He even does pushups and leads people in jumping! That's just cool!
    • trixyfox, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Bucky is the best mascot ever. The pushups are amazing. I remember calculating how many he did when we whooped Indiana 59-0. Ah, what a game
      • DFAutomaton, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2so awesome...

        badgers are so friggin hardcore...they had to replace a live one with a pissed off guy in a suit.
      • UltamateAddict, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1but not as hardcore as Jorge
  • BetterOffEd, on 07/24/2008, -3/+39This is a great list. I can certainly see how a live, 700-lb+ Bengal tiger that lives on campus in a giant 15,000-square-foot elaborate zoo habitat for all the world to see and parades around on the stadium field before every home game (and subsequently growls at each visiting team as they come out of their tunnel onto the field) is easily omitted from the list...

    http://www.MikeTheTiger.com/pictures.php

    You're absolutely right—a *****' collie is *much* better than that.

    /s

    (geaux tigahz)

    • GenericNumber1, on 07/25/2008, -7/+1Don't knock the Reveille!

      (geaux aggies?)
      • ExSlashdotter, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5The Reveille also happens to be the name of the LSU campus newspaper.
      • moobies, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4How ***** was the Reveille? Texas A&M doesn't belong on this list. They actually shouldn't even be an accredited university.
    • ousthouse, on 07/25/2008, -2/+3I agree. I also think Hawaii should've been there before West Virginia.
    • ExSlashdotter, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5BetterOffEd, I logged in just to digg you up.

      I saw the list, and i'm like "mike and his new habitat have to be at the top of the list". Nope. A dog. Everybody's got a dog. My sister has a dog. But how many people have a bengal tiger?

      geaux tigers c/o 2005
    • LurchSTA, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4Geaux Tigers! Class of '07
    • brunevm, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4As an Auburn Fan, I completely agree. How the hell could Lassie make the list before Mike the Tiger.

      Looking forward to another twisted AU-LSU game this year,
      War Eagle!
      • MrTito, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2You know, the AU-LSU game has become better than the Iron Bowl. I know I look forward to playing LSU more than that ***** hole school in west Alabama.

        Also agree about Mike the Tiger, too. He's bad ass.
    • szap, on 07/25/2008, -2/+3The person that made this list must have watched 10 games of college football and picked from those mascots because there are some ***** mascots on that list. If you asked me to guess the title of a list that included the Georgia Bulldog, Bucky the Badger, a collie named Reveille, and the Sooner Schooner, I would have guessed it was a list of the least intimidating mascots in College Football. How can you put those on the list of best college mascots and keep a straight face? Bucky the Badger? Seriously??
    • ndanie3, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Geaux Tigers! c/o '07.... come on, a ****** collie? I'm surprised they didn't put a green wave on that list
  • ThePerkins, on 07/25/2008, -3/+9Get apathetic if you don't care.
    • lkeg56demn, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2If I wasn't so lethargic, I'd be more apathetic.
  • crice, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1Personally, I prefer Oskie.
  • JCH897, on 07/25/2008, -7/+0When you beat the Georgia Bulldogs, you gonna feel the Bulldogs.....bite.

    RACKBALL!
  • MutatedNantuko, on 07/25/2008, -2/+20Did it bug anyone else that the direction arrows are backwards?
    • sharp357, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3Yes, though really not important, it did.
    • utexas112, on 07/25/2008, -1/+0Site design really sucked as a whole actually.
  • shadekeiko, on 07/25/2008, -9/+3No USC Trojans?!

    Well, I guess I'm biased. ^^;
  • Cyrus042, on 07/25/2008, -5/+4So... Fresno State Bulldogs win the CWS and they choose Georgia?
    • Canadian0207, on 07/25/2008, -7/+4SEC gets more viewership and is an overall better conference than the Pac-10 ever will be.
      • wraptor347, on 07/25/2008, -2/+2Um what does the Pac-10 have to do with anything? Fresno State is in the WAC...
        The Pac-10 is better anyways, especially when you consider all sports.
    • elsewhy, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0Handsome Dan is a pretty cool Bulldog too...
  • goodespeler, on 07/25/2008, -8/+3test
  • shahin, on 07/25/2008, -3/+1The page gives an error.
  • Canadian0207, on 07/25/2008, -12/+7GO GATORS!
  • snarks, on 07/25/2008, -1/+38Worst College Mascot Ever?
    http://www.evergreen.edu/athletics/geoduck.htm
    • jahurt, on 07/25/2008, -3/+1Damn... someone beat me to it :)
    • Pusod, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1that is pathetic! it can't get any worse than that! they were better off calling themselves "the clams".
    • airwalke, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4The fight song is even better.

      Go, Geoducks go,
      Through the mud and the sand,
      let's go.
      Siphon high, squirt it out,
      swivel all about,
      let it all hang out.

      Go, Geoducks go,
      Stretch your necks when the tide
      is low
      Siphon high, squirt it out,
      swivel all about,
      let it all hang out.
    • JasonCox, on 07/25/2008, -0/+9Hi, I'm Mike Rowe and this is my job.
      • PlayingGangsta, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this
      • loudmouth11, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1thats the only way I knew what that was
    • spikepeck, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Someone please circumcise that thing
    • elf25, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1mascot by committee?
  • natpatben, on 07/25/2008, -6/+0Dugg for Sooner Schooner!
  • ousthouse, on 07/25/2008, -4/+10The War Eagle - it's so awesome, it's not even a mascot and it still makes the list.
  • shadywasabi, on 07/25/2008, -7/+2If you're going to go for bulldogs, stick with the original: Yale's Handsome Dan.
  • CptBuck, on 07/25/2008, -3/+2The Stanford Tree? Dartmouth's Keggy the Keg?
  • Dillywin, on 07/25/2008, -4/+20Arizona State university has Satan as its mascot. People call him Sparky i call him satan.
    I run around yelling Go SATAN GO SATAN.

    so
    GO SATAN
  • smurfsahoy, on 07/25/2008, -8/+2Actual live animals are pretty cool (except for the two dogs, that's just lame), but spartans? badgers? seriously? Those are pretty much the most unoriginal mascots I can think of. 3 different high schools in my conference back then were spartans, out of like 8. And there was a bulldogs, too.

    MIT engineers, Stanford's tree (unofficial but still completely awesome), Santa Cruz banana slugs, all are way cooler than any of these, except maybe the covered wagon one.
  • SOS84, on 07/25/2008, -3/+2Replace the lame Sooner Schooner and the Mountaineer with Smokey and the Nittany Lion and the list is as perfect as it is going to get.
  • jrburkh, on 07/25/2008, -2/+1Are you serious?! I'm biased sure, but Sparty is the best!

    Even cutting a little slack, falling down to number eight is ludicrous!
  • cep59186, on 07/25/2008, -2/+0You are forgetting the former 2 time national mascot of the year "Cocky" THE University of South Carolina
    • Lynx34, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2Yeah but that's nothing compared to Aubie, the SIX time national mascot championship winner. Both Auburn's mascot and symbolic War Eagle deserve to be on the list, and both ahead of Cocky, sorry.
    • bigmarc27, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1South Carolina sucks.
  • SOS84, on 07/25/2008, -2/+10Of course, there is no need to put the greatest of all mascots in the history of mascots on the list. The Banana Slug is the unquestioned king.
  • nihility, on 07/25/2008, -3/+3Nothing says badass like a giant orange with arms and legs. http://blog.syracuse.com/yourphotos/large_caught_0 ...
  • ousthouse, on 07/25/2008, -6/+1No Big Red?
    http://theauburner.com/images/wku.jpg
  • frostedflakes, on 07/25/2008, -9/+1And the most racist mascot of all award goes to Florida.
    • kookbutt, on 07/25/2008, -2/+11Both the 3,100-member Seminole Tribe of Florida and the 6,000-member Seminole Nation of Oklahoma officially approved the relationship and the details of the images used and FSU gives free tuition to any person from the Seminole tribe.
    • ExSlashdotter, on 07/25/2008, -1/+8You mean Florida State. Florida's mascot is the gator.
    • brunevm, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1And your an ignorant dumbass! Your obviously not a true Seminole indian or else you would know that FSU's mascot is completely supported by the Seminoles. PS- there's more than one college in Florida, moron.
    • diggdiggerid, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1how is it racist? would you also say that saying a black person has black skin is "racist?" they're not saying it's bad, only describing them, what is wrong with that?
  • yomandude, on 07/25/2008, -2/+2This list sucks! What about Berkeley Bears? how much more fierce can you get than a bear? it probably has to do with the fact that Fox made the list. Damn republicans.
    • pennvneff, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1The Bear or Bruin is not fierce, in fact it's probably one of the biggest signs you might be rooting for a bunch of gutless pansies.

      Though the Cal Bear does not signify cowardice as much as their southern cousin the UCLA Bruin. A bear dressed up in powder blue and gold just screams to the world "pussy".
  • olsonchr, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2meh. it's been done (sorta):

    http://fantasydrafts.blogspot.com/2006/05/sports-m ...
  • frascellyboy273, on 07/25/2008, -2/+3***** timed slideshows
  • tramblings, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1I'm not going to get angry if I disagee. I'm burying them! ahahaha.
  • kookbutt, on 07/25/2008, -3/+1Hawaii Warriors
    Badgers Smell
  • jellydoughnut21, on 07/25/2008, -2/+1We have the worst mascot in college football, Oskie, he looks like an 82 year old bear with back problems.
  • Sambo320, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2Ralphie the buffalo would clearly destroy the rest of these pathetic mascots. Go buffs!

    By the way, University of Colorado at Boulder is the greatest place to go to school. If you haven't been to Boulder, take a visit. Great weed, beautiful woman, lots of parties, and mountains....woooooh
    • TheBigBad, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4The mountaineer has a rifle. If his accuracy his good, Ralphie doesn't stand a chance.
    • adam07, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1I'll digg you because I'm from Denver and CU is really pretty. I have a lot of friends who go to school there.
  • bizsumpark182, on 07/25/2008, -2/+1How about WKU's big red blob/hill? He's won national awards for crying out loud. Also, I did not like the Longhorns mascot, it looked so sad and I think the way they have it chained is just cruel. They shouldn't have it as a mascot at all.
  • derrickgossman, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Where in the hell is Lobo Louie?
  • bSimms, on 07/25/2008, -6/+5The Nittany Lion > all.
    • Manguskahn, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Joe Paterno + The Nittany Lion + PSU > everything that is, has, or ever will be.
  • CrushThemTorg, on 07/25/2008, -2/+2My college would take a real cougar on a chain out onto the field. Also, there was a stuffed cougar that was passed around crowd-surfing style. One year, the ***** Huskies stole it, so we jacked it back and ripped it to shreds.

    War Eagle is pretty awesome. But it'd be more awesome if it could kill on command.
  • sharp357, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1A collie? Yet you left of the UW Huskie? Sorry,lame.
  • pjbrown88, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2I think that RIT's Tigers should have made this list. Back in 1963-64, the college had a real Bengal Tiger that they brought to their sporting events.

    And nothing says "I'm gonna ***** you up," quite like having a real tiger staring you in the face.
  • Pusod, on 07/25/2008, -9/+2USC TROJANS bitches!
  • bazooze28, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5Chief Illiniwek Forever
  • jos3ph779, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3mike the tiger?
  • etrof, on 07/25/2008, -5/+3GO DAWGS!!!!!
  • MrTito, on 07/25/2008, -2/+7War Eagle is awesome. Anyone who's been in Jordan-Hare stadium when that eagle flies over can testify it's pretty bad ass to see. Glad it made the list.

    Aubie's not so bad either. He's been the Capital One Mascot of the Year a few times I believe.

    God damn I'm ready for football season to start.
  • gatorfree, on 07/25/2008, -3/+6As we used to say at Florida ... FSU ... C-K-S-. Then we would pass out in a pile of puke on top of our stripper classmates who went to lectures in bikinis. God I hate my life now.
  • airwalke, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6The Iowa State Cyclones had an actual tornado show up an hour before kick-off when we played Colorado in 2005. CU can have their buffalo, but even their head coach was impressed by our live mascot. ;)
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