SEC Connections: Georgia

In our series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, the University of Georgia.

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Texas and Georgia both have had dogs for mascots. While we all know Georgia's bulldog mascot is Uga, from 1914 until the first Bevo was introduced in 1916, UT's mascot was a pit bull named Pig Bellmont, the pet of Athletics Director Theo Bellmont.

Within the last five years, Texas and Georgia faculty have done extensive joint research in molecular biosciences and integrative biology, earth and planetary science, population health and chemical engineering.