A lot of college football fans have been pushing for Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart to be suspended for the Texas Longhorns game. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey made it clear that Smart should have been penalized for his shove to Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Buren, but did not elect to suspend Smart.
However, perhaps one overlooked figure in the Texas-Georgia game that should be suspended is Texas mascot Bevo XV (we are kidding; well, kind of).
In the 2019 Sugar Bowl, Bevo launched an unprecedented, unprovoked attack on Georgia football’s legendary mascot, Uga. Fortunately, Uga was too elusive for the Texas Longhorn steer, who weighs over 1,500 pounds.
There’s no doubt that Bevo was intending to gore Uga. In Bevo’s path were numerous innocent bystanders.
Nobody knows exactly why Bevo wanted to gore Uga. Was it because he was jealous of Uga’s recent 2017 SEC championship victory? Or was it because Bevo knew that Uga and the Georgia Bulldogs would go on to win back-to-back national championships just a few years later?
“I don’t know what his problem was that one day. Maybe he wasn’t happy to see the cute, little puppy,” said Danny Davis of the Austin-American Statesman.
There’s no way Texas would suspend its own mascot for a home game, but now would be the appropriate time with Uga and Bevo reuniting in the same place for Georgia’s game on Saturday at Texas.
Here’s a look back at Bevo’s attempt to gore Uga.
One year ago today, Bevo had the audacity to go after Uga 😮 pic.twitter.com/U4czUR2zxz
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 1, 2020
The one thing we do know is that Uga and Bevo will not be taking pictures together anytime soon.