07-24-2025, 01:50 PM
According to Ryan McGee, the Stanford Tree comes it at #4 in the Costumed Division of his college football mascot rankings:
5. Keggy the Keg, Dartmouth
4. The Stanford Tree
3. Big Red, Western Kentucky
2. Brutus, Ohio State
1. The Duck, Oregon
In terms of 2025 opponents, the Georgia Tech Buzz in the Ramblin' Wreck comes in at #2 in the Mechanized Division. Hawaii's Vili the Warrior, Florida State's Osceola and Notre Dame's Leprechaun are #5, #4 and #1, respectively, in the Human Division.
5. Keggy the Keg, Dartmouth
4. The Stanford Tree
3. Big Red, Western Kentucky
2. Brutus, Ohio State
1. The Duck, Oregon
In terms of 2025 opponents, the Georgia Tech Buzz in the Ramblin' Wreck comes in at #2 in the Mechanized Division. Hawaii's Vili the Warrior, Florida State's Osceola and Notre Dame's Leprechaun are #5, #4 and #1, respectively, in the Human Division.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)

