re: What is the next SEC tradition to go?

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It has been in use since 1845 for Louisiana regiments... so no

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You're deluded if you think it's not going to be called for. These people want to remove a Boston statue of Abe Lincoln in the name of BLM. They aren't smart and they have zero shame.

The Bengal Tiger has been the official mascot of Louisiana State University since 1936. LSU chose the Panthera tigris tigris because it was the custom at the time to choose a name based upon a vicious animal. Dr. Charles Coates, who was Dean Emeritus, College of Pure and Applied Science and the Tigers' first coach who was affiliated with LSU from 1893-1939, detailed this history in the following letter to the LSU Alumni News in October of 1937:

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It was the custom at that time, for some occult reason, to call football teams by the names of vicious animals; the Yale Bulldogs and the Princeton Tigers, for example. This is still the vogue. It struck me that purple and gold looked Tigerish enough.

So, although the LSU football uniform also reminded Coates of the Tiger Rifles and their colorful uniforms similar to those worn by French Zouaves, the LSU football team was named after the cat (in accordance with custom at the time), NOT any military unit.

The tiger head symbol came from the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. A militia unit that traces its history back to the 1830s and who defended the union against the British.

LSU got its nickname for its athletic teams - 'Tigers' from Dr. Charles Coates, LSU's first football coach, who chose a name he thought would (1) be en vogue with the rest of the South choosing names of ferocious animals, as had been the custom in the northeast and Ivy League (where Coates came from), and (2) that LSU's colors of royal purple and old gold (which he also chose from the local store selling Mardi Gras ribbon) would go well with a growling tiger head.

Decades later, at an alumni banquet and through a newspaper interview, he related the above, plus the 'insinuation' that the name came from the Louisiana Tigers regiment who fought in Virginia during the Civil War - a nickname given to them for their ferociousness. But Coates stressed that he wasn't even thinking of that in 1893 - THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER. And he dismissed this notion that some LSU fans naturally assumed was true, but never was.
The name Tigers came from Coates. And Coates alone.