LSU is superstitious about their purple jerseys, they only wear them at home, never in home openers, and only against OOC cupcakes. They did wear them at Vandy in 2019 but only because Vandy wore grey and LSU couldn't wear white.

Cal's Memorial Stadium sits directly on top of the Hayward Fault, which is the second-most dangerous and likely fault to go in the near future. The fault runs on a diagonal right across the field.

Michigan had live wolverine mascots at one time, however they were relocated to a zoo once their cheerleaders and band members realized the wolverines wanted to attack them.

Texas A&M's dog mascot, Reveille, holds the highest ranking of everyone in the Corps of Cadets.

The Stanford Tree is actually the mascot of the Stanford band and not the team itself. Stanford's official mascot is actually the color, Cardinal. They are named after the color and not the birds.

UAB once wanted to use a Komodo dragon as a live mascot but it was deemed too dangerous.

Florida State's stadium, Doak Campbell Stadium, is the second largest continuous brick structure in the world, only behind the Great Wall of China.

Oxford, MS was named "Oxford" in 1837 by the town's founders with the hopes that the town would attract the state's flagship university. That dream came true in 1841 when Oxford was indeed selected as the future home of the University of Mississippi.

Clemson has the only copyrighted paw print logo. This was possible because they live tiger used for the first paw print had a distinguishable scar on his paw.

There are more than 1,000 skeletons curated inside Tennessee's Neyland Stadium. Bodies are donated to the department, which then studies how they decompose at an off-site facility known colloquially as "The Body Farm."

In 1914, during the Mexican Revolution, Mott Keys, an army medic stationed along the border near Laredo, Texas, stumbled onto a litter of abandoned terrier puppies on the Mexican side. Keys adopted one of those pups and took him back home to Hollis, Oklahoma, after completing his duty.
Before long "Mex," as Keys named him, would become the most famous dog to Sooners fans everywhere.
Keys enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, and his experience as an army medic landed him a gig on the OU football training staff. Mex would go to the games, too, donning a red sweater with a big red letter "O" on the side and famously barking whenever the Sooners scored a touchdown. Mex also was charged with keeping stray dogs and cats from roaming onto Boyd Field in the middle of games.
It wasn't until 1924, though, that Mex went down in Sooner lore.
On a road trip to Drake University, Mex was accidentally left behind when the Sooners switched trains in Arkansas City, Kansas, to head to Iowa. Without their good-luck mascot, OU fell to Drake 28-0. The following day, a headline in the Arkansas Daily Traveler said: "Crushing Defeat of (Sooners) is Charged to Loss of Their Mascot Here." The Sooners offered a 50 cent reward to anyone who could find the dog, and Mex was soon located pacing the train station platform in Arkansas City.
Mex became so beloved that when he died April 30, 1928, classes at OU were canceled for three days in his honor. He was buried in a small casket somewhere under Owen Field, where the Sooners still play today.

Wisconsin's Camp Randall, a 53-acre property owned before the Civil War by the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, transformed into a training center for the majority of 91,000 Wisconsin troops who served in the Grand Army of the Republic from 1861 to 1865.
Named for wartime Gov. Alexander W. Randall, the site also housed 1,400 captured Confederate soldiers. Some 140 who died in Madison from their injures on the battlefield are buried at the northernmost Confederate cemetery in the United States.
The five-acre Camp Randall Memorial Park, east of the stadium, was built in the early 20th century and remains listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Its entrance, the Memorial Arch, dedicated in 1912, stands as a notable structure on campus. The Wisconsin marching band, en route to the stadium from Union South on game day, marches through the arch.

In 1926, Ohio State's Homecoming Queen was literally, a cow.

Former Louisiana Gov. Huey P. Long wanted to fund a stadium for LSU, but wasn't going to be able to get the right funds from the state. However, he saw that there was enough for dorms, and had them built as part of a stadium to provide cover for an eventual expansion project.

Notre Dame sent Michigan a letter in 1894 requesting Michigan students teach Notre Dame's students how to play football.

The Cincinnati Bearcats aren't named after an animal, but rather a former player.
Cincinnati beat Kentucky 14-7 in 1914 thanks to the help of fullback Leonard "Teddy" Baehr. It is said that during the game, the cheerleaders chanted, "They may be the Wildcats, but we have a Baehr-cat on our side!"

Iowa was kicked out of the Big Ten in 1929 for allegedly paying players.

Fleetwood Mac invited the USC Trojan Marching Band to perform "Tusk" on its 12th album in 1979, which became the Trojans' first platinum album. They earned a second when they appeared on the reunion album "The Dance" in 1997. No other collegiate band has accomplished such a feat.

The Texas Longhorns' burnt orange dye was produced in Germany, and became unavailable for years during World War II. Texas switched to a brighter orange and didn't go back to the burnt orange until five years after the arrival of legendary coach Darrell K. Royal in 1962.

Over 50 bears have been the live mascot for Baylor, but the first, which arrived in 1917, was won in a poker game.
The bear, later named "Big Herb," was riding a train carrying the 107th Engineers to their duty station in Waco, Texas, when the train stopped. The cub was found by soldiers and won in a bet by Herbert E. Mayr, who kept the bear until he became too big to be a pet. Mayr donated the cub to Baylor, and it became the school's first live mascot.
Baylor had to rename the bear, because its original name was "Little Poo Poo."