{"id":2864,"date":"2026-03-03T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:00:10","slug":"fan-favorite-college-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/fan-favorite-college-mascots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fan Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These mascots may not always dominate national rankings, but they\u2019re beloved on their campuses and often have unique backstories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Purdue Pete (Purdue)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Sooner Schooner (Oklahoma)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Blue Devil (Duke)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Jayhawk (Kansas)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The HokieBird (Virginia Tech)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Gator (Florida)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Ramblin\u2019 Wreck (Georgia Tech)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Demon Deacon (Wake Forest)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Tiger (Clemson)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Gamecock (South Carolina)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Bear (Baylor)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Cardinal (Louisville)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Badger (Bucknell)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Bobcat (Ohio University)<\/strong> \u2014 A favorite in Athens, Ohio, known for creative pranks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Falcon (Air Force)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Midshipman (Navy)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Black Knight (Army)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Commodore (Vanderbilt)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Gopher (Minnesota)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Runnin\u2019 Rebel (UNLV)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These mascots may not always dominate national rankings, but they\u2019re beloved on their campuses and often have unique backstories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[727,726,110,725,322,111],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-mascots","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-football","tag-mascot","tag-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}