Bevo won’t journey to Ohio for the Longhorns’ showdown in opposition to the Buckeyes. Right here’s why

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Longhorns kick off the season this Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, in opposition to the Ohio State Buckeyes. But the largest Longhorn, Bevo, gained’t be there.

Bevo — a 2,100-pound, 10-year-old steer — is the reside mascot for the University of Texas at Austin. His handler, Ricky Brennes, mentioned it “didn’t seem like a wise decision” to carry the bovine to Ohio for this recreation.

“If it would have been a postseason game, I think we absolutely would have inquired about bringing him,” Brennes mentioned.

Brennes, the manager director of the Silver Spurs Alumni Association (the group chargeable for transporting and dealing with Bevo), mentioned the journey to Columbus this early within the college yr would have taken a whole lot of time away from the scholars within the affiliation. Plus, the journey time isn’t excellent for Bevo himself, both.

“For us to have brought Bevo to Columbus — today is Wednesday, we would’ve left yesterday, and yesterday was the second day of school — it probably would have been at least an 8-day round-trip for us to bring Bevo up there,” Brennes mentioned. “We limit his trailer time to about 6-7 hours a day, and so it’s just a lot of time on the second day of school to pull our students out for six days, and then we turn around and have three home games in a row… It just didn’t seem like the wise decision to make.”

The drive from UT Austin to Columbus with out pulling a trailer holding an enormous steer inside is over 18 hours by automotive.

Brennes mentioned when he and Bevo’s handlers do journey with him, they’ll cease and let him stretch and stroll round a bit each three or 4 hours. The trailer he travels in has room for him to put down, however Brennes mentioned he doesn’t appear to try this very a lot, so the Silver Spurs attempt to restrict the period of time he’s touring inside a day.

“I mean, we could… theoretically, you know, do eight, nine hours. But we’re not going to try to knock that out in one day or two days,” Brennes mentioned. “We’re going to take our time with it and… when we’re traveling, we look for places with, you know, Longhorn alums, or people that… maybe they’ve got Longhorn cattle themselves, and we’ll find some place to keep them overnight, you know, when we’re stopping.”

Brennes mentioned Bevo doesn’t keep within the trailer in a single day when he travels, in order that they need to discover a pasture for him to remain in in a single day.

Bevo ought to make appearances on the three video games following the Longhorns’ prime 5 showdown in opposition to Ohio State this weekend.

Those video games would be the Longhorns’ residence opener on Sept. 6 in opposition to San Jose State, a house recreation in opposition to UTEP on Sept. 13, and a Sept. 20 residence recreation versus Sam Houston.