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Lang’s World: College football mascots and nicknames provide unique window into a program’s competitive soul

MEMPHIS – This past weekend, the University of Kentucky followed up their big upset of Florida with a game against Murray State. That would be the Murray State Racers, a small school in western Kentucky.

Murray State lost the game 48-10, but that was really beside the point. Because moreover, Murray State lost a perception battle when this tweet went viral:

Yep, that’s a Wildcat in the front, a Kentucky Wildcat, a feline so ferocious that, according to Wikipedia, it will “pursue prey atop trees, even jumping from one branch to another.”

And in the back, there is the Murray State mascot, which is apparently two people in a costume that looks like I made it.