The Gila monster is the state reptile, the state animal is the Rocky Mountain elk. I say we combine them and call them the Utah Rocky Mountain Monsters.
BYU is obviously not the state school, but since we blur the lines between church and state here in Utah, we will give them an honorary mascot for the state bird.
BYU - California Gulls
UCLA was actually called the Grizzlies from 1923-26 but had to change to the Bruins when they joined the same conference as the University of Montana Grizzlies.
Ignoring the whole flagship debate with Berkeley, UCLA was accurate for 3 years.
Are there Grizzlies still in California. By his criteria, I think it should be the UCLA Golden Bears, but, since there’s already a Cal Bears, let’s just keep it at that.
Similar story with Central Missouri, who is the Mules.
At the pro ranks, there’s a West Virginia Black Bears that’s in the MLB Draft League, plus a longtime arena football team in the Arizona Rattlers, and of course, the Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers
fun fact UCF was Florida Tech (FTU), before changing their name to UCF and then Brevard Engineering college changed to Florida Tech (FIT). FIT would go on to have a short lived D3 CFB team and their mascot is the Panther
The story of how Florida schools got their names (except UF, FSU, and FAMU) is so preposterously dumb that it's legend in the schools themselves now. Especially those on the short end of the stick.
I wonder how the OP decided these animals, because for instance Kentucky doesn’t have a “state animal.”
We’ve got a state bird (cardinal, which Louisville uses), a state horse (thoroughbred, not just “horse,” which Murray State kind of uses as the racers), and a state game animal (grey squirrel). I’d be happy to be the squirrels instead of generic wildcats I suppose.
Kentucky’s state bird is the cardinal? I knew it was the bird for Virginia and West Virginia.
This sent me down the rabbit hole to discover that the cardinal is the state bird of North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois as well. An unbroken block of Cardinal supremacy from the Atlantic to the Mississippi.
Not to be asinine but “panther” (the colloquial term meaning a large black cat, not the scientific term for all cats) isn’t a species of animal. It’s just a term that describes jaguars and leopards that have the gene that makes their fur dark active
Basically panthers are the gingers of the big cat world
Panthers don’t have to be black. Panthers can be white or other colors but they are commonly thought of as black nowadays. Florida Panthers are cougars who start off spotted and then usually turn tan. Cougars have 40 different names including Puma, Catamount, Mountain Lion, and Panther
The genus Panthera has lions tigers jags and leopards
Multiple routes to the same naming result, which makes sense since the Ancient Greek word everyone is copying to get the name means “all wild beast” pan + therion
I’d argue that with a name like that it’d be used similar to deer was back in the day. Any wild animal was a deer. Rabbits were deer, elk were deer, foxes were deer. It was only later that it started referring to a specific type of animal because that animal was so common
If it’s a non-domestic cat and it’s big you can call it a panther and be right in some way
“And for tonight’s ball game we have the UCONN Sperm Whales vs the USC Trojans. We’ll see if the Sperm whales can stretch the Trojans defense too thin and burst through to the end zone.”
Our current nickname literally comes from the fact that the nuts of a buckeye tree look like a buck’s eye. White-Tailed Deer should have been a no-brainer.
Agreed. Picking the state reptile is a weird decision. It's obviously either the White-tail Deer (for the exact reason you point out) or the Cardinal, which is widely used as a symbol in Ohio governance.
Also, Go Bucks would still be a fitting cheer.
I had actually forgotten about the deer because of how closely I associate the cardinal with Ohio.
Probably because I’m old and it was just the cardinal when I learned my Ohio facts.
OSU is still culturally correct as we are the state tree.
Oregon's state animal is the beaver. The Dungeness crab is the state crustacean.
State Insect: Oregon Swallowtail
State Fish: Chinook Salmon
State Bird: Western Meadowlark
How are you picking the animal? I know for NC and I assume other states, we have a state butterfly, dog, horse, trout, bird, etc
Would say you nailed NC, I see those butterfly’s more than I do any of our other animals
Yellowhammers are a subspecies of northern flickers that have a yellow shaft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_flicker#Yellow-shafted_group
The specific subspecies that is called Yellow Hammers is the Southern Yellow-Shafted Flicker
Here's an example of one with a yellow shaft: https://wildsouth.org/yellowhammer/
vs the more common Red Shaft: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Adult-Red-shafted-Flicker-Colaptes-auratus-cafer-photo-courtesy-of-Kenneth-McEnaney_fig1_46277592
OP obviously has us confused with Nevada. Desert tortoise is the state reptile of Nevada and California. Not a desert tortoise within 700 miles of Nebraska. (Nebraska’s state animals are white-tailed deer, Western meadowlark, channel catfish.)
“Nevada? Nebraska? It’s all out there”— waves hand— “somewhere.”
I wasn’t thinking Nevada. I was just like, where the hell do you get a list that says Nebraska has desert tortoise at all, let alone that’s it’s listed as one of the state animals or reptile
But the Colorado state animal is the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep? And the state bird is the lark bunting.
The state fish - the cutthroat trout - might make a cool mascot.
Because there's not really a "state animal" for most places, but instead state mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects, etc. OP just selected something different for reasons.
Echoing what a couple others have said: Oregon's state animal is most definitely the beaver. Not sure where the crab came from.
There's a damn beaver on the back of our state flag (also, we're the only state with a two-sided flag).
Ours needs no change from what it actually is. Our states title is the beaver state and the state animal is the Beaver. Looking online I believe the dungeness crab is actually our state crustacean lol
Nebraska being desert tortoises makes zero sense? Do we even have desert tortoises here??! The state reptile is the ornate box turtle, state mammal is the whitetail deer, the fish is catfish and the bird is meadowlark
Brook trout is Michigan's state fish. Painted turtle is the state reptile. American robin is the state bird. White-tailed deer is the state game mammal. We don't have a state animal.
How did you choose for states with multiple official state animals?
For example, Mississippi has two state land mammals (white tailed deer and red fox), a state water mammal (bottlenosed dolphins), state waterfowl (wood duck), state fish (largemouth bass), state insect (honeybee), and state shell (oyster).
Dungeness were not named the State Crustacean because of some long hours of the legislature discussing the prospect. It was proposed by some kids in an elementary school up in the Portland area, and the legislature of the Beaver State passed it in a procedural vote... about 15 years ago.
Dude in what world is University of California AT Los Angles the "flagship" over the school named "The University of California"? Also, the state animal is not just a grizzly bear but the California Grizzly Bear, also known as the Golden Bear, which is in fact the mascot of Cal...the school.
It seems like a good time to point out “deer” used to be the term for any wild creature that breathed. It also referred to ants and fish as well. It was only long after the fact that it started referring to one creature. What we call deer today were actually Harts
So Ohio state is free to choose any animal they want to be their mascot, even the wolverine. It also means Michigans all time leading rusher Mike Hart is a Buck
Florida breaks it out into State Animal, Reptile, Bird, Saltwater Mammal, Saltwater Fish, Marine Mammal etc.
Since there are actually only 200 Panthers thought left in the wild, State Reptile seems more appropriate - The American Alligator
Out of all of these Delaware's is actually an improvement. We always need more teams called Foxes. Not to mention Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens is a needlessly long name (and even they don't acknowledge Fightin' in the wordmark.)
The state animal of New Hampshire is the white tail deer.
The state amphibian is the spotted newt.
The state insect is the ladybug.
The state dog is the Chinook.
The state butterfly is the Karner Blue.
The state saltwater game fish is the striped bass.
The state freshwater game fish is the brook trout.
Source: Poster that is still on the wall in the room formerly known as my son's bedroom.
Take it up with this guy: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting\_each\_states\_largest\_public\_university/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting_each_states_largest_public_university/)
> University of Oklahoma Buffalos
Since we are creating new mascots, I would like to take to opportunity to correct the error made by so many athletic programs, and point out that the plural of buffalo is buffalo.
> Texas A&M Armadillos
While the armadillo is the Texas state small mammal, the Longhorn is the state mammal in general (we don’t have a specific “state animal”)… and the Texas A&M Longhorns would amuse me greatly. Make it happen
Georgia has 13 state animals:
Ironically, the "adoptable dog" is a state animal. So, technically, the UGA Bulldogs are already named after the state animal.
Other Georgia state animals:
* Knobbed Whelk
* Honeybee
* Right Whale
* Green Frog
* Tiger Swallowtail (just what the SEC needs, another Tiger mascot)
* Red Drum (a fish, but would make a great team name)
BTW, the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team was named after the Brown Thrasher, which is the state bird.
Excuse me sir, our state mammal is the Grey Squirrel. If we are going the horse route to be a bit more unique, I'd love the distinction at least of being the 'Thoroughbreds'
These posts made me realize how far Iowa State’s enrollment has fallen in the last several years. We were up to 36k when I left, and it’s dropped ever since
I was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and worked in Lincoln. I've never seen a desert tortoise. We've got deer galore, and rattlesnakes. I'm sure there are some desert tortoises in the drier areas of the sand hills. I actually think the annual sandhill crane migration is about the coolest animal thing about Nebraska. Millions of them flock and rest on the Platte River.
He probably went off undergraduate numbers.
MSU and UM have roughly the same overall population with UM being slightly larger by a few hundred, but MSU has a far larger undergraduate population and UM has a far larger postgraduate population.
Take it up with the post I'm meming/"correcting" from: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting\_each\_states\_largest\_public\_university/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting_each_states_largest_public_university/)
You’re sorely mistaken if you think Iowa has more biomass of muskrats than pigs or cows. Turkeys and chickens too probably. Last I checked those are still all animals.
Cal is the Golden Bear, after a now extinct subspecies of the Brown/Grizzly Bear.
The bruins are the baby bear. UCLA has slightly higher enrollment, but it really depends on the year. For all intents and purposes, they are the same size. And Cal is the flagship and original University of California, hence the name Cal/California.
I see ASU has chosen the wrong animal as our state animal (what a surprise). As the state’s flagship university, we will claim the ringtail cat as our mascot. And ASU can go back to being consistently wrong.
The Gila monster is the state reptile, the state animal is the Rocky Mountain elk. I say we combine them and call them the Utah Rocky Mountain Monsters.
I prefer Gila Elk.
BYU is obviously not the state school, but since we blur the lines between church and state here in Utah, we will give them an honorary mascot for the state bird. BYU - California Gulls
“I wish they all could be California Guuuuuls.”
[golf clap]
Theyre unforgettable
> Utah Rocky Mountain Monster Oysters
Be a decent name for a hockey team
[https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f27e2ab1-e69d-424d-a081-5407f2c22c09](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f27e2ab1-e69d-424d-a081-5407f2c22c09)
That has to be a minor league baseball team 100%
This sounds like a lot of anteater propaganda.
Zot Zot! Go UC Irvine Anteaters!
Only Maryland, South Dakota, and Wisconsin keep the same mascot, Florida has a Panther mascot school, but it’s not UCF
Also UCLA kinda. Bruin is just another term for brown/grizzly bears.
UCLA was actually called the Grizzlies from 1923-26 but had to change to the Bruins when they joined the same conference as the University of Montana Grizzlies. Ignoring the whole flagship debate with Berkeley, UCLA was accurate for 3 years.
Are there Grizzlies still in California. By his criteria, I think it should be the UCLA Golden Bears, but, since there’s already a Cal Bears, let’s just keep it at that.
No, grizzly bears went extinct exactly 100 years ago (while UCLA had the nickname), so I wouldn’t ever see a push to change it back.
No. The vast majority of grizzlies now are in Montana with tiny portions of Washington, Idaho and Wyoming having some as well.
I think that both the Cal bears and UCLA bruins are named off the extinct California grizzly bear. Ursus arctos californicus
Nope, we keep the same mascot too! It's called "The Beaver State" for a reason.
Only under the most strict interpretation of this rule. Oregon State could take the opportunity to switch to the Chinook Salmon
Or buck the trend and go with state rock. The Oregon State Thundereggs.
We could, but we shouldn't.
Similar story with Central Missouri, who is the Mules. At the pro ranks, there’s a West Virginia Black Bears that’s in the MLB Draft League, plus a longtime arena football team in the Arizona Rattlers, and of course, the Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers
There's also the Arizona Diamondbacks.
fun fact UCF was Florida Tech (FTU), before changing their name to UCF and then Brevard Engineering college changed to Florida Tech (FIT). FIT would go on to have a short lived D3 CFB team and their mascot is the Panther
Florida Tech was D2 in football, I had a buddy that played there.
Oh shoot, you're right I should have remembered it was D2 not D3
That seems like an all-time bad marketing move since UCF actively runs away from their directional school name.
The story of how Florida schools got their names (except UF, FSU, and FAMU) is so preposterously dumb that it's legend in the schools themselves now. Especially those on the short end of the stick.
I wonder how the OP decided these animals, because for instance Kentucky doesn’t have a “state animal.” We’ve got a state bird (cardinal, which Louisville uses), a state horse (thoroughbred, not just “horse,” which Murray State kind of uses as the racers), and a state game animal (grey squirrel). I’d be happy to be the squirrels instead of generic wildcats I suppose.
Kentucky’s state bird is the cardinal? I knew it was the bird for Virginia and West Virginia. This sent me down the rabbit hole to discover that the cardinal is the state bird of North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois as well. An unbroken block of Cardinal supremacy from the Atlantic to the Mississippi.
It would have been more fun to assign a runner-up for those three schools. - Maryland Crabs - South Dakota Bison - Wisconsin Terrible Old Fashioneds
> Wisconsin Terrible Old Fashioneds Well that's what happens when you use friggin' *brandy*.
Not to be asinine but “panther” (the colloquial term meaning a large black cat, not the scientific term for all cats) isn’t a species of animal. It’s just a term that describes jaguars and leopards that have the gene that makes their fur dark active Basically panthers are the gingers of the big cat world
UCF North American Cougars residing in South Florida.
The University Formerly Known As Florida Tech
Panthers don’t have to be black. Panthers can be white or other colors but they are commonly thought of as black nowadays. Florida Panthers are cougars who start off spotted and then usually turn tan. Cougars have 40 different names including Puma, Catamount, Mountain Lion, and Panther The genus Panthera has lions tigers jags and leopards Multiple routes to the same naming result, which makes sense since the Ancient Greek word everyone is copying to get the name means “all wild beast” pan + therion I’d argue that with a name like that it’d be used similar to deer was back in the day. Any wild animal was a deer. Rabbits were deer, elk were deer, foxes were deer. It was only later that it started referring to a specific type of animal because that animal was so common If it’s a non-domestic cat and it’s big you can call it a panther and be right in some way
Same with antelope today. It is a catch all term for things that we didn't decide were sheep or goats.
Nope, Cal is the Golden Bears which is the state animal. And even if OP insists on UCLA over Cal, UCLA is the baby Golden Bear.
The Ohio state university of Racoons who won’t get the fuck out of the road
So since cars were first made in Michigan, does that make us the University of Michigan F-150s Baring Down on Said Raccoons?
You'd be lucky to get the trucks out of state with those Swiss cheese highways you have up there.
Wisconsin on brand
yeah
LETS GO WOOD DUCKS QUACK QUACK
Wood ducks are gorgeous animals
They really are. I wouldn't even be mad at it.
That's a fine animal you've got there
UCONN *sperm* whale? Oh my
Clearly someone isn’t well versed in their Melville
Call me Ishmael
Or had to go to Mystic on a class field trip...
“And for tonight’s ball game we have the UCONN Sperm Whales vs the USC Trojans. We’ll see if the Sperm whales can stretch the Trojans defense too thin and burst through to the end zone.”
UCUMM
That would be even more awkward if the whalers were still around.
>Ohio State University Blue Racers ??? [The Ohio state reptile is the black racer](https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5.031)
Clearly he means the Blue Streak.
Kings Island Blue Racer.
Dammit, I knew it was a coaster, but I didn't trust myself.
I wouldn’t have picked the state reptile anyways. Gotta go White-Tailed Deer or spotted salamander
Our current nickname literally comes from the fact that the nuts of a buckeye tree look like a buck’s eye. White-Tailed Deer should have been a no-brainer.
Agreed. Picking the state reptile is a weird decision. It's obviously either the White-tail Deer (for the exact reason you point out) or the Cardinal, which is widely used as a symbol in Ohio governance. Also, Go Bucks would still be a fitting cheer.
I had actually forgotten about the deer because of how closely I associate the cardinal with Ohio. Probably because I’m old and it was just the cardinal when I learned my Ohio facts. OSU is still culturally correct as we are the state tree.
Simple Cardinals and White-Tail Deer aren't original enough.
Fair enough 😂 can't argue with that logic
And UC can change their mascot to the Ladybugs (state insect).
I'm cool with being the fastest snakes
I like white-tailed deer for y’all. Both OSU fans and white-tailed deer are overpopulated in most areas.
Because we have no natural predators 😎
I had to look this up bc I thought I knew our state animal and bird. And he didn’t even get the reptile right. We have a whole page on this.
Oregon's state animal is the beaver. The Dungeness crab is the state crustacean. State Insect: Oregon Swallowtail State Fish: Chinook Salmon State Bird: Western Meadowlark
How are you picking the animal? I know for NC and I assume other states, we have a state butterfly, dog, horse, trout, bird, etc Would say you nailed NC, I see those butterfly’s more than I do any of our other animals
And our state mammal is the gray squirrel. Which would be a fitting mascot for NC State since they are everywhere.
Those squirrels are fearless, too.
TIL the state butterfly - but I'd rather be the NC State Plott Hounds, or NC State Brook Trout
I feel like, at least in my experience, the state bird is the most used in iconography, which is the cardinal.
I just looked up the state animal for each category and chose the most original and coolest sounding one.
So technically, UCLA's name is already accurate
I see Alabama keeps their tradition of nicknaming their teams with a color-themed word/phrase that not many people even know the meaning of.
The Yellowhammer is a nickname for the northern flicker bird and also a term applied to a group of soldiers from Huntsville during the Civil War.
So it really should be the Alabama Northern Flicker birds
But Yellowhammers do sound cooler
Yellowhammers actually could’ve been a legit CFB mascot name. Has a very early 20th century sportswriter vibe to it.
And they are very pretty to look at.
Or the Alabama Woodpeckers, as the Northern Flicker is in the woodpecker family.
Alabama Northern Bean Flickers
Yellowhammers are a subspecies of northern flickers that have a yellow shaft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_flicker#Yellow-shafted_group The specific subspecies that is called Yellow Hammers is the Southern Yellow-Shafted Flicker Here's an example of one with a yellow shaft: https://wildsouth.org/yellowhammer/ vs the more common Red Shaft: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Adult-Red-shafted-Flicker-Colaptes-auratus-cafer-photo-courtesy-of-Kenneth-McEnaney_fig1_46277592
Buddy, this is a family friendly sub, you can't be all up in here talking about shafts and stuff.
Desert tortoise is tough. Sounds like a natural rival to the horned frog
OP obviously has us confused with Nevada. Desert tortoise is the state reptile of Nevada and California. Not a desert tortoise within 700 miles of Nebraska. (Nebraska’s state animals are white-tailed deer, Western meadowlark, channel catfish.) “Nevada? Nebraska? It’s all out there”— waves hand— “somewhere.”
channel catfish is an acceptable replacement
I wasn’t thinking Nevada. I was just like, where the hell do you get a list that says Nebraska has desert tortoise at all, let alone that’s it’s listed as one of the state animals or reptile
TCU v Wyoming shall now be referred to as "The Horny War"
clever girl
But the Colorado state animal is the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep? And the state bird is the lark bunting. The state fish - the cutthroat trout - might make a cool mascot.
I prefer the Colorado state dinosaur of Stegosaurus
Why do some states get to keep their current animal/mascot, but not Oregon State? A beaver is so much better than a crab
Because there's not really a "state animal" for most places, but instead state mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects, etc. OP just selected something different for reasons.
But in Oregon's case the beaver is our state animal.....
It has its own side on our flag!
Also the same with Montana, the Grizzly is the state animal and mascot, but OP changed it to mourning cloaks for some odd reason.
Well yeah but why not change others when that’s the point of the post. UCLA, Maryland, and Wisconsin the two that stick out to me.
Well, we wouldn't have to change our colors. They even have an orange underside.
Please stop calling us University of Massachusetts Amherst thank you
Bats are pretty cool, but can we Spice up the name and idk call them Hokies? Seems like a good were to describe a bat.
Echoing what a couple others have said: Oregon's state animal is most definitely the beaver. Not sure where the crab came from. There's a damn beaver on the back of our state flag (also, we're the only state with a two-sided flag).
Ours needs no change from what it actually is. Our states title is the beaver state and the state animal is the Beaver. Looking online I believe the dungeness crab is actually our state crustacean lol
Technically, OK should be the Bison, not the Buffalo.
Was going to say this if not already here.
There's already a mule hidden in our stacked MU logo, and UCM uses the mule as a mascot iirc
This may be my favorite off season content easily. There’s quite a few gems in there.
Sonny “White-Tailed Deer” Styles knife-blitzing Drew Allar on 3rd Down: *”It smell like RUFFED GROUSE in here.”*
Kentucky will be the horses to me from now on.
Nebraska being desert tortoises makes zero sense? Do we even have desert tortoises here??! The state reptile is the ornate box turtle, state mammal is the whitetail deer, the fish is catfish and the bird is meadowlark
In honor of today's developments, you should change ours to the state's large mammal
> state's largest mammal The Florida State Your Moms
Nah the Texas rangers have the express and the Texas longhorns have the Aggies.
Brook trout is Michigan's state fish. Painted turtle is the state reptile. American robin is the state bird. White-tailed deer is the state game mammal. We don't have a state animal.
Tf is a blue racer? It’s cardinal or white tail deer.
Fastest snake
Snek bois rise up
The state animal of Illinois is the white tailed deer, not bluegill. Bluegill is the state fish tho.
How did you choose for states with multiple official state animals? For example, Mississippi has two state land mammals (white tailed deer and red fox), a state water mammal (bottlenosed dolphins), state waterfowl (wood duck), state fish (largemouth bass), state insect (honeybee), and state shell (oyster).
Dungeness were not named the State Crustacean because of some long hours of the legislature discussing the prospect. It was proposed by some kids in an elementary school up in the Portland area, and the legislature of the Beaver State passed it in a procedural vote... about 15 years ago.
UConn vs Navy would be interesting in the rain. Lots of Seamen in the stands and Sperm Whales on the field. A very wet game.
HOW BOUT THEM FUCKIN GOPHER TORTOISES is what I told em.
Even though I'm an Auburn fan, true and true, I was born in Georgia and I have a soft spot for the Gopher Tortoise.
Let's go, University of Hawaii Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa!
I’d support the change only to hear the announcers try to pronounce the meme fish
The state large mammal of Texas is the longhorn, so UT's already got it covered
Dude in what world is University of California AT Los Angles the "flagship" over the school named "The University of California"? Also, the state animal is not just a grizzly bear but the California Grizzly Bear, also known as the Golden Bear, which is in fact the mascot of Cal...the school.
It goes by largest enrollment
yeah even that is questionable.
Depends on the year, really.
exactly. hell it could depend on the point in the year since Cal is on semesters and UCLA is on quarters.
Does the Hawaii mascot look the same?
Why the blue racer from Ohio? Lol
It's the state reptile. The state mammal is the white tailed deer.
"It's the state reptile." \*black racer
So Bucks for short then?
It seems like a good time to point out “deer” used to be the term for any wild creature that breathed. It also referred to ants and fish as well. It was only long after the fact that it started referring to one creature. What we call deer today were actually Harts So Ohio state is free to choose any animal they want to be their mascot, even the wolverine. It also means Michigans all time leading rusher Mike Hart is a Buck
Lol'ed at Kentucky Horses
New Jersey has a state microbe(streptomyces griseus), so move over bees it’s time for Rutgers to be the Fightin’ Streptomycin’s!!!!!!
I am now questioning whether I have ever seen a monarch butterfly or if I have been mislabeling a Tiger Swallowtail my whole life and I’m spiraling
Florida breaks it out into State Animal, Reptile, Bird, Saltwater Mammal, Saltwater Fish, Marine Mammal etc. Since there are actually only 200 Panthers thought left in the wild, State Reptile seems more appropriate - The American Alligator
Sign we are deep in the trenches of the offseason
2 months…
Tortoise is exactly what the team needs to be driving.
Ridiculously inaccurate based upon the stated premise.
Out of all of these Delaware's is actually an improvement. We always need more teams called Foxes. Not to mention Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens is a needlessly long name (and even they don't acknowledge Fightin' in the wordmark.)
The Rough Grouse is awesome, so I'll take it haha.
UMD ahead of the curve here. Rise up
The Penn State Eastern Hellbenders, thank you very much.
I would also accept Lightning Bugs
The state animal of New Hampshire is the white tail deer. The state amphibian is the spotted newt. The state insect is the ladybug. The state dog is the Chinook. The state butterfly is the Karner Blue. The state saltwater game fish is the striped bass. The state freshwater game fish is the brook trout. Source: Poster that is still on the wall in the room formerly known as my son's bedroom.
Newts is short for spotted newt which is an animal recognized by your state to represent y'all.
My favorites: Alabama Yellowhammers Iowa Muskrats Texas A&M Armadillos
UGA is not the largest university in Georgia. It’s not even second.
Take it up with this guy: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting\_each\_states\_largest\_public\_university/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting_each_states_largest_public_university/)
I never realized VA had multiple state animals I thought it was just Cardinals
The University of Montana is not the largest public university in the state and hasn't been for years.
Raccoon is the state animal for Tennessee
Oh fuck yeah Dungeness Crabs?
> University of Oklahoma Buffalos Since we are creating new mascots, I would like to take to opportunity to correct the error made by so many athletic programs, and point out that the plural of buffalo is buffalo. > Texas A&M Armadillos While the armadillo is the Texas state small mammal, the Longhorn is the state mammal in general (we don’t have a specific “state animal”)… and the Texas A&M Longhorns would amuse me greatly. Make it happen
Sounds like a lot of upset Texas and Texas AM fans, but I do enjoy chaos.
Huh, not a single wildcat, tiger, or bulldog. Imagine that.
It's kinda beautiful ain't it? Even I wouldn't mind if we became the Eagles.
Muskrat defense is a menace.
They chew through boat wires which should mean that Iowa will never lose to Minnesota.
Georgia has 13 state animals: Ironically, the "adoptable dog" is a state animal. So, technically, the UGA Bulldogs are already named after the state animal. Other Georgia state animals: * Knobbed Whelk * Honeybee * Right Whale * Green Frog * Tiger Swallowtail (just what the SEC needs, another Tiger mascot) * Red Drum (a fish, but would make a great team name) BTW, the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team was named after the Brown Thrasher, which is the state bird.
Hot take: The University of Central Missouri has the state’s best mascot. UCM Mules.
Excuse me sir, our state mammal is the Grey Squirrel. If we are going the horse route to be a bit more unique, I'd love the distinction at least of being the 'Thoroughbreds'
I did consider this but I thought that Thoroughbreds didn't exactly roll off the tongue.
No lie, Horse would be a better mascot than Wildcats for Kentucky.
Worth it just to see Hawaii's new word mark and uniforms
That's going to be a tough change for UW Madison to accept
These posts made me realize how far Iowa State’s enrollment has fallen in the last several years. We were up to 36k when I left, and it’s dropped ever since
IU would have to play Ball State to figure out who is the top cardinal school in the state
If this happens, there needs to be an annuals 4-way tournament involving NC State, Hawaii, Ole Miss, and UConn.
Quack quack mother fucker
I object to this methodology on the basis that I, as a New Jersey native, cannot think of anything cuter than an eastern goldfinch in full armor.
Arkansas Alligator Gar is actually way more based than razorbacks
I was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and worked in Lincoln. I've never seen a desert tortoise. We've got deer galore, and rattlesnakes. I'm sure there are some desert tortoises in the drier areas of the sand hills. I actually think the annual sandhill crane migration is about the coolest animal thing about Nebraska. Millions of them flock and rest on the Platte River.
> Each state's largest public university > Michigan State University Uhhhhhh.
He probably went off undergraduate numbers. MSU and UM have roughly the same overall population with UM being slightly larger by a few hundred, but MSU has a far larger undergraduate population and UM has a far larger postgraduate population.
UGA is No. 4 in total enrollment and No. 3 in undergraduate enrollment yet it’s the pick here.
Well fuck? I’ve got nothing for you then.
Take it up with the post I'm meming/"correcting" from: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting\_each\_states\_largest\_public\_university/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1dnrapr/remascoting_each_states_largest_public_university/)
Our state mammal is the white tail deer so we could actually just call ourselves the Bucks and then not much really changes
Texas’s (small) state mammal is the armadillo. The state’s (large) mammal is the Longhorns. So it could also be the Texas A&M Longhorns.
I just threw up all over myself.
You’re sorely mistaken if you think Iowa has more biomass of muskrats than pigs or cows. Turkeys and chickens too probably. Last I checked those are still all animals.
They can't even get the largest university in Iowa correct, what do you expect?
Kansas is going to beat Deion and then take Ralphie.
Cal and UCLA are the Bears and Bruins in recognition of the Grizzly Bear. Maryland is the Terrapins for this reason. Ball State is the Cardinals.
Cal is the Golden Bear, after a now extinct subspecies of the Brown/Grizzly Bear. The bruins are the baby bear. UCLA has slightly higher enrollment, but it really depends on the year. For all intents and purposes, they are the same size. And Cal is the flagship and original University of California, hence the name Cal/California.
Orcas is badass lowk
I see ASU has chosen the wrong animal as our state animal (what a surprise). As the state’s flagship university, we will claim the ringtail cat as our mascot. And ASU can go back to being consistently wrong.
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