Note the oh so subtle darkening of the "I."

Hey, your stupid tiger only has one appendage!

Oh, yeah? Well, F [i] U!

Extra points to FIU, though, for havings its dangerous, one-legged wild animal crawling out of its border. It's coming for you!

Bonus points to South Carolina for producing a logo featuring a mascot that is both frightening and frightened, although I'm relatively certain that it is more the latter than the former. Subtract points for the gaudy giant "C," but the gamecock is squawking its little chicken heart out while molting, so yeehaw for angry, multitasking poultry. Plus, big, hairy, audacious bonus points to the administration for including the politically incorrect and likely illegal prosthetic razor spur on the thing.

I once saw a house cat with its ears pinned back like that topple, tie, gut, and quarter a black angus bull in under 45 seconds. Add 100 pounds and call it a panther, and you have Pittsburgh.

You really have to admire the sheer audacity of Eastern Michigan University. When someone observed that the school's initials were EMU and suggested that they choose an emu for their mascot, those in charge said, "Yeaaaaahh. Emus." They didn't even bother with adding a color to the thing. Black. White. Emu.

What? It's an eagle? Riiiight.

What do you think goes through somebody's mind after he spends an afternoon covering every non-bendable inch of fleshy vulnerability with solid plate armor and hefting a double-edged sword? How far down the list do you think "A cape. I need a cape." would be? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Still, Army's Knight in Shining Armor With Snazzy Flowing Robe just looks cool. The colors are fantastic, and the logo itself blends sharp points with luxurious curves well.

Look, we hate Alabama around these parts, and the soup is boiling what with the recent SEC Media Days fiasco, but you've got to admit that that's one kickin' logo. You don't have to be a hobbit to know that oliphants are dangerous, but they rarely look it. Even when they're crushing zookeepers' skulls, they appear sluggish and disinterested.

Not the Alabama elephant, though. The detail on its face says it's tired of the zoo, the faux African plain, and it's through working for peanuts and painting pictures for the kiddies. And look at that back leg -- he's fixing to jump the fence. Just because you've never seen an elephant hop doesn't mean that they can't. They've just never been ticked off enough to need to.

I will say, though, that the placement of the "A" makes it look a bit like it's doubling as a fig leaf, but whatever.