'Elite' UC Davis mascot ousted, replaced with cow I really don't have a horse, or cow, in this race. Either is fine.
One example of a human agrarian-type mascot would be Herbie Husker at Nebraska...though even Herbie had PC/woke issues recently and his hand signal had to be changed.
The New Mexico State Aggies have a person of sorts, but he looks more like a gunslinger. Isn't brandishing a six-shooter kind of the antithesis of farming?
I googled "cow meaning." That will offend someone soon. As a verb it means bullying. In the UK it is a particularly derisive term for an ill spirited woman. One definition even had person with a large a** and I don't think they were referring to a farmyard animal.
AggieFinn2 - I was aware of the use of Gator as a play on the Golden Gate. Not sure the opening to a large natural bay/harbor, or the bridge that spans it, is much of an inspiring mascot either but you don't want to name your teams after Coit Tower either.
Still better than the Boll Weevils of Arkansas-Monticello. Who names their teams after a pest? And while Delta State's teams are called the Statesmen, (or the somewhat oxymoronic Lady Statemen) they are more colloquially called Fighting Okra. A team named after soul food?
Perhaps we could follow the culinary theme, and in honor of our renowned viticulture and enology program call our teams the Fighting Gamay Beaujolais.
Or have another student referendum to select a varietal.