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A Visual Guide to College Game Day Traditions

THE OLE' College Jry A VISUAL GUIDE TO COLLEGE GAME DAY TRADITIONS For many, college football is an American institution every bit as sacred as Apple Pie and the Fourth of July. and that devotion is not without its share of fan traditions and game day rituals. Some of those traditions are very run of the mill. while others are a tad bit more unorthodox... like having a live tiger as your Mascot. Jhe Roar of the Crowd UCLA OLE MISS 8 Clap Cheer Mississippi's Cow Bell If you've ever attended a UCLA qame, you are The traditions of ringing a cow-bell at Mississippi familiar with this easilų audible ritual that is State qames dates back to a qame aqainst Ole Miss performed at every UCLA qame - home or away. Fun Fact: It is virtuallų impossible to master the 8 clap cheer unless you are A) a UCLA fan, or BI Anna where a cow wandered onto the field randomly. The game resulted in a bulldog victory. so they decided to keep the cow bell... because you can never have Kendrick playing the "Cups" song. too much cowbell. 10 PURDJE HAWAII Purdue's Big Bass Drum Hawaii's Haka Chant While it has been verifled that iIt is not the largest drum in the world, at ten feet high and requiring a six man team of two "beaters" and four "pushers" to operate it. there's no question it's still a big BASS drum. There's a joke in there somewhere. I can feel Displaying what is indubitably the most terrifying team rallying cry in all of College football. the University of Hawaii Warriors "Haka" chant harkens back to the school's island roots where a war cry was made intimidate enemies before battle.... It it! still works. FSU UMICH Florida State's Chief Osceola Hail To The Victors This fight song that is belted out at every U of M What's cooler than a dude riding on horseback into a football stadium while dressed as a war sports event is synonymous with College FootballL U chief, carrying a flaming spear that he throws into the turf? The answer is nothing. nothing at all... it's pretty much the sweetest college football ritual of M alumni land former U.S. President) Gerald R. Ford actually preferred this tune over "Hail to the Chief" and often had the Navy band play Victors' ever. instead at presidential functions. Jhose Guys are animals BEVO Navy's "Bill" The Goat UTexas at Austin Longhorn "Bevo" "Ralphie" The Buffalo Annapolis is known for its The original Bevo was aqgressive. Running around Folsom field in a charqing photographers and behaving EXACTLY like a Bull. So The UT staff responded by sometimes unorthodox traditions. horseshoe pattern at every home The presence of "Bill the Goat" as Navy's mascot goes back to 1893 game, the University of Colorado's Ralphie the buffalo has been a when Navy beat Armų 6-3... the behaving EXACTLY like Texans and staple since 1934 when a group of goat has been Navy's mascot and served him to the team at a students rented a bison for the last kidnapping victim (when other football banquet. Mellower bulls game of the season... the Buff's teams feel like picking on animals) have since taken up the "Bevo" won that game, and Ralphie has for over a century. mantle because being dinner sucks. been there ever since. LSU's Live Tiger "Mike" Auburn's War Eagle UGA's Bulldog "Uga" It doesn't get much more Not only is this the name of This ugly little dude is one of the Intimidating than having an actual arquably the sweetest battle most popular and iconic mascots in cry/fight song in college football, all of college sports. The original live tiger as your mascot, and Louislana State is well aware of this, as they've been wheeling out frickin' Uga was a wedding qift to student Sonny Seller that he brought to Auburn also has a real live eagle that soars around the stadium like, well... like a real opening day in 1956. Uga has been a caged Bengal tiger known as "Mike" onto the LSU field since live frickin' eaqgle. before every the hideous little mascot for 1936. home gamel Georgia ever since. The Just Plain Strange U Penn's Toast Toss Boise State's "Smurf Turf Texas A&M's Midnight Yell Quaker fans' habit of tossing Not as much a welrd Since 1932. Texas A&M has toast after the third quarter tradition as It Is Just a plain taken the traditional pep singing of "here's a toast to dear old Penn" was originally a tongue In cheek protest old strange looking fleld. the stadium that the BSU rally to the next level with a highlų organized and vibrant Bronco's bright blue turf when they replaced s call home has had student rally held the night berore each home football game. "Yell Leaders" Ifve students elected to one-year FSU's SOD Cemetary the abolition of alcohol at games In the 1970's, It is reported that If a d the with the blue In an In a tradition that is morbid as It Is effort to gain notorlety... It totally worked. the Brond somewhat really good game Is happening, anywhere from 30.000 to 40.000 pleces of terms by the student awesome, the FSU Seminole's lead almost 25.000 excited positively destroyed Humboldt State in their first students In coordinated yells. which consists of teaching burų a chunk of a vanquished opponents turf In the SOD Cemetery after winning an bagels have been known to fly around Franklin toast or officlal qame on the Smurf Turf, 74-0, new yells and practicing away game. Fleld. changes existing ones. 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A Visual Guide to College Game Day Traditions

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For many, college football is an American institution every bit as sacred as Apple Pie and the Fourth July and the devotion is not without its share of fan traditions and game day ritual.

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