{"id":109334,"date":"2026-01-03T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109334\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:29:15","slug":"texas-mascot-bevo-stops-at-zippys-in-baton-rouge-on-1000-mile-trek-home-following-citrus-bowl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109334\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas mascot Bevo stops at Zippy&#8217;s in Baton Rouge on 1,000-mile trek home following Citrus Bowl win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE \u2014 Bevo, the University of Texas&#8217; longhorn mascot, stopped at Zippy&#8217;s in Baton Rouge on Friday during his more than 1,000-mile trek back to Austin following a 41-27 win over Michigan in the Cheese-It Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Bevo&#8217;s handlers said that they stopped in Baton Rouge on their way home from the bowl, parking at Zippy&#8217;s along Perkins Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similar to LSU&#8217;s Mike the Tiger, UT&#8217;s Bevo is a title held by several animals living on the university&#8217;s campus. In Bevo&#8217;s case, the one that stopped at Zippy&#8217;s is the 15th Texas Longhorn to represent the school and its athletic teams.<\/p>\n<p>Bevo first became a fixture at UT games in 1916.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE \u2014 Bevo, the University of Texas&#8217; longhorn mascot, stopped at Zippy&#8217;s in Baton Rouge on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48975,48971,48976,48979,2470,5442,48977,48974,9764,48978,27,29,28,6208,48972,48973],"class_list":["post-109334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-archmanning","tag-bevoxv","tag-citrusbowl2026","tag-hookem","tag-longhorns","tag-mascot","tag-michiganwolverines","tag-perkinsroad","tag-sec","tag-silverspurs","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-travel","tag-universityoftexas","tag-zippysbatonrouge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}