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A mascot is a symbol used to represent a school or its athletic teams.We currently have only a handful of these, and only those that are unique, such as Yale's bulldog, Handsome Dan. More common mascots, such as Bears or Trojans, have not yet been... more

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Husky     University of Connecticut  
University of Washington
Roary Rage   Mascot  
Roary Rage is the team mascot used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is an anthropomorphic representation of a Florida Panther (a Puma subspecies), from which the...
Oski Oski in Sproul Plaza Mascot Haas School of Business
Oski or Oski the Bear (named after the "Oski Wow-Wow" yell) is the official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley has been a tradition at the school since making his debut on September 26, 1941 during the football season-opener against St...
University of California, Berkeley
Buzz Buzz playing Twister at a basketball game   Georgia Institute of Technology
Buzz is one of the two official mascot of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Buzz is usually represented as a stylized yellowjacket with yellow-and-black fur, white wings, a yellow head, and antennae. He is almost never drawn with six legs, but...
Blizzard T. Husky Blizzard T. Husky   Michigan Technological University
Blizzard T. Husky is the costumed mascot of the Michigan Tech Huskies. Michigan Technological University is a top-rated science and technology university located in Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Blizzard was christened via a campus-wide...
Rhett the Boston Terrier Mascot Boston University
Rhett is the official costumed mascot of the Boston University Terriers and has been the BU mascot since 1922. The often snarling, bi-pedal black and white Boston Terrier was named after the male lead in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind,...
Boston University Academy
Northwestern's Willie the Wildcat Willie the Wildcat   Northwestern University
Willie the Wildcat is the mascot for the Northwestern University Wildcats. He is not to be confused with the mascot for Kansas State University, which is named Willie The Wildcat. The first mascot was a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park...
Sparty Sparty, MSU's mascot, at "The Spartan" statue.   Michigan State University
Sparty is the mascot of Michigan State University. Sparty is usually depicted as a muscular male Spartan warrior/athlete dressed in stylized Greek costume. After changing the team name from "Aggies" to "Spartans" in 1925, various incarnations of a...
Reggie Redbird     Illinois State University
Reggie Redbird is the mascot for Illinois State University located in Normal, Illinois. The mascot is present at many campus events including all sporting events and many of the major events during freshman orientation. The nickname “redbird” was...
Nittany Lion The Nittany Lion mascot at the 2007 season opener Mascot Pennsylvania State University
This article is about the Penn State mascot. For the Penn State fight song see "The Nittany Lion". The Nittany Lion is the mascot of the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania and its athletic teams. It refers to the mountain...
Penn State Berks
Penn State Lehigh Valley
Penn State Abington
Penn State Altoona
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Seymour d'Campus     The University of Southern Mississippi
Seymour d'Campus is the mascot for The University of Southern Mississippi. He attends Golden Eagle sporting events all year round including Southern Miss Football, Lady Eagle Volleyball, Lady Eagle Soccer, Golden and Lady Eagle Basketball games, as...
The Bird The Bird parachuting into an Air Force football game   United States Air Force Academy
This article is about the Air Force Academy mascot. For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). The Bird is the mascot of the United States Air Force Academy. The Bird is also the name of the bronze falcon statuette presented to distinguished...
Thundar     North Dakota State University
"Thundar" is the nickname of the mascot for North Dakota State University's Bison athletic program. The name is derived from an additional nickname that the teams use, the "Thundering Herd". Thundar is a caricature of a bison. He is known for his...
Mike the Tiger Mike V   Louisiana State University
Mike the Tiger is the official mascot of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and serves as the graphic image of LSU sports. By tradition the tiger is a live Bengal tiger, although the last two tigers were of mixed breeds. Mike V was a Bengali...
Knightro   Mascot University of Central Florida
Knightro is the mascot for the UCF Knights. Knightro is sometimes seen riding a horse around campus and during football games. Knightro also sometimes uses a custom built car designed and built by Engineering students. Knightro is introduced into...
Brutus Buckeye Brutus Buckeye   Ohio State University
Brutus Buckeye is the athletics mascot of Ohio State University. Brutus is a student dressed in Buckeye colors with a headpiece resembling an Ohio Buckeye. Brutus has appeared since 1965, with periodic updates to design and wardrobe. As a member of...
Pistol Pete Pistol Pete in logo form   Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Pistol Pete is the athletics mascot of Oklahoma State University, New Mexico State University & The University of Wyoming. Pistol Pete is a student dressed in traditional cowboy attire with a headpiece resembling Frank Eaton. Pistol Pete has been...
Raider Red Raider Red   Texas Tech University
Raider Red is one of the mascots of Texas Tech University. The main mascot is The Masked Rider who rides a live horse. Raider Red is used at events where The Masked Rider is not allowed or would not be appropriate. Around the 1971 football season,...
The Masked Rider The Masked Rider gives the finger-gun salute   Texas Tech University
The Masked Rider is the primary mascot of Texas Tech University and its sports teams known as the Texas Tech Red Raiders. It is the oldest of the university's mascots still in existence today. Originally called "Ghost Rider," it was an unofficial...
Bill the Goat Bill the Goat   United States Naval Academy
Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy. The mascot is a live goat and is also represented by a costumed midshipman. There is also a bronze statue of the goat just inside Gate 1, the main gate to the Academy grounds. This...
Duke Dog Duke Dog   James Madison University
The Duke Dog is the official mascot for the James Madison University Dukes. 'Dukes' was made the official nickname in 1947. However, the university sought a way to generate interest to the campus and Harrisonburg communities by having a mascot. The...
Benny Beaver Benny Beaver at a basketball game Mascot Oregon State University
Benny Beaver is the official mascot of Oregon State University. The adoption of a beaver as the university's mascot is linked to Oregon's history as a territorial leader in America's early fur trade. The Oregon Territory was well known for its large...
Louie the Laker Louie the Laker   Grand Valley State University
Louie the Laker is the fun-loving, zany, wacky, and over-the-top mascot of Grand Valley State University, located in Allendale, Michigan. The costume of Louie consists of a large cartoonish face with a goofy oversized jaw, a scowl, a blue and white...
Boilermaker Special The Official Mascot of Purdue : The Boilermaker Special V   Purdue University
The Boilermaker Special is the official mascot of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Boilermaker Special resembles a Victorian-era railroad locomotive and is built on a truck chassis. The current model, Boilermaker Special V, debuted...
Bucky Badger Bucky Badger Mascot University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bucky Badger is the official mascot of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His full name is Buckingham U. Badger and he attends all major sporting events for the Wisconsin Badgers as well as hundreds of other events around Wisconsin every...
Cosmo the Cougar Cosmo at the 2006 Fourth of July parade in Provo   Brigham Young University
Cosmo the Cougar is the official mascot of Brigham Young University's (BYU) athletic teams. He can be seen at many sporting events, wearing the uniform of the team that is playing. In the past, Cosmo's job was a volunteer position, and no...
Stanford Tree The Stanford Tree entering Stanford Stadium.   Stanford University
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "The Cardinal," referring to the vivid red color (not the common song bird as at several other schools), and the University has never been able to come up...
Traveler Traveler's official logo   University of Southern California
Traveler, is a horse who is the mascot of the University of Southern California. He appears at all USC home football games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as well as many other outdoor events, including numerous Rose Parade. The current horse...
Reveille Reveille I   Texas A&M University
Reveille is the official mascot of Texas A&M; University. Students adopted the first Reveille, a mixed-breed dog, in 1931. To thank Texas A&M; for its assistance during World War II, the US Army designated Reveille a Cadet General (5 diamonds), the...
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Hokie Bird Virginia Tech Hokie Bird   Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
HokieBird is the official mascot of Virginia Tech. It is turkey-like bird that closely resembles a "maroon cardinal with a snood." Virginia Tech's first mascot/nickname was the "Gobblers". The origin of the "Gobblers" moniker is found in the early...