Here we go...

Alright, its official. I was selected to represent Big Blue for the Female Blogger contest for a chance to travel to Orlando in January for the CapitalOne Bowl, where they will announce the CapitalOne Mascot of the Year. If and when Big Blue is voted as the Mascot of the Year, I will be joining him in Orlando to be announced for his title. As of now, I will be pumping up Big Blue's name in hopes that YOU will vote for him. So I have one question for you, Are YOU into the BLUE?


I will be posting 2-3 times a week with updates on Big Blue's progress!


We are in week four of competition, and I will give a run down of the weeks prior to this. 


Week One:
In the first week of competition Big Blue faced another big cat, Mike the Tiger of LSU. We were not sure how big this contest was going to be, but the Monarchs of ODU showed off how much they supported their mascot.  We came out with a win in the first week, and had the lead in votes. Big Blue was able to beat Mike the Tiger, 34, 282 to 13,771, showing the nation how BLUE we are!


Week Two:  
We were up against the United State Air Force Academy. You would think that they had PT or something, but they shaped up to be much more of a competition than the week previous. The voting got heated, but Blue prevailed taking home his second win with 65, 076 to Air Force's 23,382. Good Job Monarchs! Tennessee's Smokey came close to Big Blue's vote total, by just 550! Giving Big Blue 99,050 to Smokey's 98,500!


Week Three: 
Match-up of the Week! 
Last week Big Blue was up against two time Mascot of the Year, Monte of Montana. Big Blue came out to a 23,000 vote lead in just two days, but Monte would not be stopped getting as close to Big Blue as he could with only 3,000 votes separating them. Big Blue would not accept a loss! When he felt threatened he pulled out all of the stops and went into the football game Saturday sporting his Capital One Mascot jersey asking everyone to text/vote for Big Blue. Old Dominion came together at the game and brought home a win in week 3. With record breaking votes, Big Blue stormed pasted Monte with 234,715 votes to Montana's 205,622! When the results were posted on Monday morning Big Blue was in the lead being undefeated 3-0 with over 300,000 total votes! Go BIG BLUE!


Week Four:
Up Against Brutus...the Buckeye (which by the way is a nut). So far in day three of competition, Big Blue has come out with close to a 20,000 vote lead. Hopefully He can bring the Nut to a stop this week. ODU does not have a home football game, but Brutus does. Will that pose a threat to our voting?! I DON'T THINK SO! Keep those votes coming in for BIG BLUE!


And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ captialonebowl.com

<disclaimer: this is the first blog that I have written, just let me get used to it before you judge :) >