Among the highest scoring: the University of GeorgiaBulldogs' Hairy Dawg, Michigan State University's Sparty (as in Spartan) and the University of Minnesota's Goldy the Gopher, who is hugely popular with local fans despite looking like a squirrel.
The number-two ranked Alabama Crimson Tide will take on the number-three ranked GeorgiaBulldogs in the 22nd iteration of the SEC Championship Game tomorrow afternoon (to be televised on CBS, called by the inimitable Verne Lundquist).
Bars such as The Prop House, or Bulldogs in Atlanta, Georgia, exist because a large number of gay blacks -- particularly those who date other blacks, and live in the black community -- do not feel a part of the larger gay movement.