College Mascots without an “S” at the End – FCS and DII

Most of the stuff on my website is there because I want to share things that I am learning and I want to be able to find it when my brain can’t recall it. I don’t have a goal that people visit my pages but I am happy when they do. In the past few months I have been getting a lot more hits on my site because I think AI is using it for some answers to my mascot trivia. My most often visited page is of the 15 DI FBS colleges who have mascots that don’t end in an “S”. There are 6 in the Power 4 – can you name 4 of them?

Due to the question’s popularity, I expanded on it below to provide a list of 11 more of these schools whose mascots do not end in an “S”. There are 4 Division I Football Championship Schools (FCS) out of 129 (3%) and 7 Division II Schools, out of 303 (2%), that have no “S” at the end of their mascot. Combining this data with 13 Division I FBS schools out of 133 without an “S” on their mascot, gives us 4%, 24 out of 565 Division I & II colleges that fit this criterium.

As you look over the 11 below, note that 4 of them are Bison and 3 are Storms (2 of these “Storms” are modified by adjectives – Savage and Crimson). There are actually 5 bison pictured below, but one of them is called something else (see SOSU). Furthermore, I think Slippery Rock might be the only college in the nation for which their mascot not only does not have an “S” but also refers to their mascot in the singular. You don’t play for the “The Rocks”, but “The Rock”.

It is harder than you might realize to find pictures of the school name, their mascot name, and the actual mascot in the same image. For example, I could not find any images of “Presbyterian” and “Blue Hose” together with whatever Blue Hose are (Fierce Scottish Warriors). Similar situation with the name “Southern Nazarene University” and the “Crimson Storm” (this my slightly edited image of their football helmet). Lastly, we used to have 5 schools in the FCS without an “S” in their mascot’s name, but in 2015, after years and an extremely long and fascinating back-and-forth, which has its own Wikipedia page, the University of North Dakota shifted from the Fighting Sioux to the Fighting Hawks.

Division I – Football Championship Subdivision

1. Bucknell Bison (Lewisburg, PA)
2. Howard Bison (Washington, DC)
3. North Dakota State Bison (Fargo, ND)
4. Presbyterian Blue Hose (Clinton, SC)
5. North Dakota Fighting Sioux (now Fighting Hawks) (Grand Forks, ND)

Division II

1. Delta State Statesmen (Cleveland, MS)
2. Erskine Flying Fleet (Due West, SC)
3. Lake Erie Storm (Painesville, OH)
4. Oklahoma Baptist Bison (Shawnee, OK)
5. Slippery Rock “The Rock” (Slippery Rock, PA)
6. Southeastern Oklahoma Savage Storm (Durant, OK)
7. Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm (Bethany, OK)

For a list of the 15 DI Colleges with no “s” on the end of their mascot’s name go here.

For a list of the College Mascots without an “S” at the End – O’ Canada Edition