USA College Mascots

Saturday in the USA in the fall is traditionally the day for college football games.  Many of the games for the larger universities draw 80,000 - 100,000 people.  

 

It's a tradition for US colleges to adopt a mascot for the school.  Many times it's a fierce animal, like a lion, tiger, jaguar or bear.  Birds are also popular like hawks and eagles.  Many times they adopt a mascot representative of the area the school is in, like the Florida Gators (Florida is known for having a lot of alligators).  Some are just for fun, like the Campbell Fighting Camels.

 

Here is a list of US college mascots.  I thought it might be fun for expanding vocabulary, or getting a sense of some of the regional peculiarities in the US.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_team_nicknames_in_the_United_States