Georgia bulldogs name mascot. 10 has been a staple of the mascot landscape since 1956. Though every new dog is added to the uga lineuga x is the latesteach also has its own unique name is given a custom made jersey and a varsity letter and resides in an air. Uga e ug e is the official live mascot of the university of georgia bulldogssince 1956 every uga has been owned by and have lived with the seiler family sonny seiler.
The official mascot is an english bulldog named uga derived from an abbreviation of the university of georgia while the costumed character. But for georgias first football game back in the late 1800s. Georgias second solid white english bulldog started in 1966 and his given name was ole dans uga.
Uga is the live mascot for the university of georgia. The line of pure white english bulldogs which epitomizes everything georgia has been owned by the frank w. Peta tweeted a video showing uga x an english bulldog that has been the schools mascot since 2015 sitting in his dog house to avoid the rain in a game between georgia and texas am on saturday.
In 2019 sports illustrated named uga the the greatest mascot in college football history. Georgia adopted the bulldog as a mascot name back in the 1920s although there are disputes as to when exactly that occurred. He served as the mascot until 1972 and was around as the bulldogs won two sec championships.
The georgia bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent the university of georgiathe female athletic teams are sometimes referred to as lady bulldogsthe bulldogs compete in ncaa division i and are members of the southeastern conference sec. In the last 100 years of intercollegiate football georgias uga has established himself as the nations most well known mascot. 10 has been a staple of the mascot landscape since 1956 torrey hart wrote in the sports illustrated article.
8 in atlanta for the cfp national championship. Sonny seiler family of savannah ga since uga i first graced the campus in 1956.