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Delaware St.. They lost to Duke in the first round of the 2005 NCAA tournament.
Blazers. This team has pulled off many amazing upsets in tournament play icluding one over number one Kentucky in the second round of the 2003 tourney.
Ohio. The Ohio Bobcats, who knocked off the Buffalo Bulls to get into the 2005 tournament, lost to Florida in round one.
Billikens. They were one of the worst teams in Conference USA with a 9-21 record.
Cougars. This was former Houston Rocket Hakeem Olajuwon's alma mater.
Toledo. Toledo had a very good football program which had gotten them into four straight bowl appearences. They lost to UConn this year in the Motor City bowl.
Terriers. Boston University missed the 2005 tournament, two years after almost beating Stanford in the Sweet Sixteen.
Victor E. Bull. Buffalo had two mascots, Victor E. Bull (said fast is Victory Bull) the male, and Victoria Bull, the female.
Otto. Otto was one of 12 mascots in the Capital One Mascot Challenge in 2002 with Victor E. Bull.
Troy. They lost ot N. Illinois in the Silicon Valley Classic.
LSU and Auburn. Kentucky is the Wildcats, S.C. is the Gamecocks, Georgia Bulldogs, Vanderbilt Commodores, and the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Temple and St. Joseph's. The Temple Owl and the St. Joe's Hawk have fought so many times that neither is allowed on the other's campus. Fortunately, St. Joe's doesn't have a football team so we aren't subjected to that fight.
Houston. The Houston Cougar was recently in a tussle with the Oregon Duck. In the wild, we all know who would win, but in this case, the Duck got the drop on the Cougar and beat him down.
Both ride on horses. The FSU pregame ceremony where the Seminole mascot rides in on the horse and plants a flaming spear at midfield, is among the more awe-inspiring in college sports.
Miami (FL) and Iowa State. Safe to say that the Miami Hurricanes (multiple national championships and a Heisman Trophy winner) have had a bit more success than the Iowa State Cylcones (who once had a player finish in the top 5 in the Heisman voting).
Illinois. As offensive as some people find Gophers, Hoosiers and Buckeyes, Illinois' Chief Illinwek has been found in violation of the NCAA's rule against offensive Native American nicknames. In 2007, the school was still in legal proceedings against the NCAA on the matter.
Orange. Syracuse is the home of many famous alumni including Donovan McNabb, Derrick Coleman, Marvin Harrison, and Bob Costas.
Golden Eagles. After 17 seasons (15 winning ones), USM forced football coach Jeff Bower to resign. Karma usually comes into play on things like that.
Michigan. Wesley has reached the Division III football tournament numerous times, reaching the semi-finals in 2005 and 2006, where it lost to Wisconsin-Whitewater. Their mascot is the Wolverine.
Cardinals. Their most famous alum is David Letterman.
Crimson Tide. One of the Super Bowl's most famous QBs, and the man without whom the NFL as we know it would not exist (had the AFLs Jets been blown out by the NFLs Colts, the leagues would probably not have merged), went to the University of Alabama.
Kent State. Kent State's alumni list includes the NFLs Antonio Gates, who never played football at the school.
0. No ACC team uses a rodent as its mascot. There are four "humans" (Duke, Florida State, Virginia, and Wake Forest), a bird (Boston College), a disaster (Miami), an insect (Georgia Tech), a cat (Clemson), a reptile (Maryland), and a wolf pack (NC State).
Iowa. All the other possible answers come from movies. Michigan Wolverines (from "Red Dawn"), Michigan State Spartans (from "Meet the Spartans" and "300"), and Northwestern Wildcats (from "Wildcats"). They are the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Owls. Florida Atlantic, under former Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger, won their first conference championship and bowl game in 2007. They were a I-AA school until 2004.
UC-Santa Cruz. When the school began its athletic program, the chancellor dubbed the teams the "Sea Lions". Students and athletes hated the name and voted to use Banana Slugs, although there is still a sea lion statue in front of the school's arena, and a sea lion is painted on the basketball court.
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