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November 4, 2023 8: 00 am ET
College sports would not be total without amusing mascots assisting to cheer groups on.
While some mascots, like Tennessee’s Smokey and Ohio State’s Brutus Buckeye, make a lot of sense since of where the schools are situated.
Other mascots, well, make you scratch your head to shot and believe about how somebody came up with them in the veryfirst location.
While there are lotsof incredibly odd competitors we might’ve picked from, we’ve counted down 10 of the wackiest mascots that college sports have to deal.
From angered veggies to masses of vibrant nonsense, you’ll neverever forget these 10 crazy college mascots assoonas you fulfill them.
1. Providence’s Friar Dom
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Imagine this guy walking up behind you and offering you a scare on videogame day. No thanks!
2. Western Kentucky’s Big Red
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Big Red looks like if somebody took a sock puppet and discarded him in a red container of paint. He’s likewise a pal to McDonald’s Grimace. Weird guy!
3. Purdue’s Purdue Pete
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Purdue Pete constantly strolls around with a hardhat and a hammer. He’s not steelworker, as far as we understand. He’s a expert college mascot. His eyes are method too huge, too. What are you going to do with that hammer, Pete?
4. Wichita State’s WuShock the package of wheat
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There’s not enough wheat in the world to protect this strange mascot.
5. Stanford Tree
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That is not a tree; that is a cousin of the alien plant from Little Shop of Horrors. Don’t water that thing!
6. Syracuse’s Otto the Orange
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Otto, are you here to sell me a glass of orange juice, take me to go Putt-Putt mini-golfing or cheer on the Syracuse Orange?
7. Xavier’s Blue Blob
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If Western Kentucky’s Big Red has a competing, it has to be Xavier’s Blue Blob. We’re not sure what the Blue Blob is made of, however it sure is blue and blobby.
8. Pepperdine’s Willie the Wave
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At Pepperdine, they have a mascot that is a wave. No, not like the Wave that individuals do in the stands, like an real wave from the ocean. Tubular!
9. Delta State Fighting Okra
At Delta State, they have the Fighting Okra to cheer them on. Seriously, would you desire to mess with an upset piece of okra? We wouldn’t.
10. Evergreen State College’s Speedy the Geoduck
This school’s mascot is a saltwater clam called a geoduck. So… yeah.