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Fighting Okra battles online

The Fighting Okra recently went head-to-head in a battle on Twitter for the title of Greatest College Mascot.

Out of 32 colleges across the nation, Delta State’s Okra made it to the final four. Voting was solely fan based and was calculated by number of retweets or favorites received.

The handle @BracketBattles held the online competition, and the Delta State family joined together to bring the Fighting Okra to the top. More than 2,250 votes were cast for the Okra, and among the mascots defeated were the Florida State University Chief Osecloa, the University of Georgia Bulldog, and Pee Dee the Pirate of East Carolina University.

The Okra fell short on retweets to the Virginia Tech University Hokie Bird, which went on to win the title Greatest College Mascot.

This is not the first time the student-adopted mascot has received national attention. The Fighting Okra has been featured on The David Letterman Show, The Food Network, in Playboy magazine and on numerous blogs and sites including SB Nation, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, ESPN and MSN NOW. The Okra even has its own website – feartheokra.com.

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