College sports would not be complete without funny mascots helping to cheer teams on.
While some mascots, like Tennessee’s Smokey and Ohio State’s Brutus Buckeye, make a lot of sense because of where the schools are located.
Other mascots, well, make you scratch your head to try and think about how someone came up with them in the first place.
While there are many wonderfully weird contenders we could’ve chosen from, we’ve counted down 10 of the wackiest mascots that college sports have to offer.
From enraged vegetables to masses of colorful nonsense, you’ll never forget these 10 wacky college mascots once you meet them.
1. Providence's Friar Dom
Imagine this guy walking up behind you and giving you a scare on game day. No thanks!
2. Western Kentucky's Big Red
Big Red looks like if someone took a sock puppet and dumped him in a red bucket of paint. He’s also a friend to McDonald’s Grimace. Weird guy!
3. Purdue's Purdue Pete
Purdue Pete always walks around with a hardhat and a hammer. He’s not steelworker, as far as we know. He’s a professional college mascot. His eyes are way too big, too. What are you going to do with that hammer, Pete?
4. Wichita State's WuShock the bundle of wheat
There’s not enough wheat in the world to defend this bizarre mascot.
5. Stanford Tree
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
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
If Western Kentucky’s Big Red has a rival, it has to be Xavier’s Blue Blob. We’re not sure what the Blue Blob is made of, but it sure is blue and blobby.
8. Pepperdine's Willie the Wave
At Pepperdine, they have a mascot that is a wave. No, not like the Wave that people do in the stands, like an actual 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 want to mess with an angry 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.
