The Road to Half-A-Mill…

Old Dominion once again brought home two Monarch wins. Big Blue was able to defeat Testudo of UMD and bring his undefeated record to 5 and 0! The football Monarchs earned their first home win of the season against Boiling Springs, North Carolina’s Gardner-Webb. In the defensive struggle, Old Dominion came out with a 14-7 win over the Runnin’ Bulldogs. With a stand out performance from punter Jonathan Plisco, he was able to earn the Punter of the Week title from College Football Performance Awards, with a 47.2 punt average for the game.

Just like every week, at 9am the votes were counted from the week before, and the new standings are posted. For the 5th week in a row, our guy, Big Blue stands atop the leader board with 488,385 votes. But wait, what’s this? Big Blue is only 11, 615 votes away from HALF A MILLION total votes?!? Fans of the mascot have rallied to get Big Blue to almost 500,000 votes in just 5 weeks. Looking at Big Blue’s facebook page, his goal for this week is to get those votes to half a million, which means he needs YOUR votes!

Before I could even post this blog, the fans of the Lion went on a voting streak, and have surpassed the half a million mark! That’s right, as of 10:30am this morning, Big Blue has 18,662 votes! That means that Big Blue has over 505,000 votes! GO BIG BLUE & your dedicated fans!

Week 5:

Last week gave way to victory once again for the Monarch. Big Blue was able to pull off an easy win for Old Dominion against UMD’s Testudo. With a vote total of 66,243 to Testudo’s 15,153, this may have seen like an easy win, but Big Blue did not want to take any chances with over confidence. Big Blue is that much closer to bringing Norfolk its first ever Capital One Mascot of the Year title by going 5-0. To make it even sweeter, its Big Blue’s first year in the competition AND his first year of eligibility.

Week 6:

Goldy of Minnesota is up against Big Blue in week 6. With a 3-2 record, does Goldy pose a threat to the Lion? I’m thinking that Big Blue has more than a good chance of defeating this oversized rodent. Minnesota only has a vote total of 83,536 and is in ninth place of the sixteen mascots, so with Big Blue’s giant totals, the gopher may not be able to dig himself out of this hole!

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