6-0

Coming out of fall break for Old Dominion, Big Blue brought the campus his 6^th victory in a row in the Capital One Mascot of the Year Challenge, over Minnesota’s Goldy. Bringing him to the prized 6 & 0! There is only one other mascot still undefeated, and that is UTEP’s Paydirt Pete, but in the votes, Big Blue is the clear #1, with over a HALF A MILLION votes, to UTEP’s 275,000.

Big Blue’s spirit took center stage at the home football game this past weekend, sporting a Lady GaGa outfit during the marching band’s tribute to the Pop Star. Big Blue emerged during the halftime show sporting wrestling uniform (that mimics the leotard that GaGa sported in one of her videos) and Lion sized Ray Ban sunglasses made out of a cardboard box. It was CLASSIC & unanticipated, but what else would you expect from the proud Monarch?

Week 6:

Big Blue was able to dig a hole that the gopher of Minnesota could not dig his way out of in week 6. Big Blue had a total of 56,362 compared to Goldy’s 23,901. Taking the Monarchs vote totals to 544,747 and helping him to remain in the number one spot for another week!

Week 7:

This week Big Blue is up against the Bearcat of Cincinnati, who is the reigning Mascot of the Year. Our Lion was able to defeat two time champion Monte with a tight race up until the end, but does Blue have a voters to bring him another Champion defeat? Well, so far this week Big Blue has 32,000 votes to the Bearcat’s 10,000. So the Monarch fans of Old Dominion are already speaking out for Big Blue trying to get votes above and beyond what is needed, just to stay in the total vote lead! Rock-on Big Blue fans.

This week Big Blue needs to get some strategies going in order to take on the Mascots he has ahead of him. We need to make sure that going into the second half of the regular season Big Blue is able to remain on top. In the match-ups in the current week, Monarch fans need to vote against future foes in order to cause lower rankings and higher loss totals for Big Blue’s opponents. This means voting against Tennessee, Oregon, UCLA, WKU, and Vanderbilt, in order to give Big Blue the advantage he needs to be the Capital One Mascot of the Year.

And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ CapitalOne Bowl Mascot of the Year Challenge