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The beginning of the college-football season gave fans plenty to watch this weekend, but much of the Tuesday-morning quarterbacking seems to be about ESPN's commercial featuring Ole Miss and Admiral Ackbar. The ad, shown below, recaps a months-long push by students who want the tentacle-chinned, trap-foiling Ackbar from Star Wars to be the school's new mascot. (He would replace a rebel leader of a different sort, the recently retired Colonel Reb.) The effort seems to have lost steam since March, but it has surely gotten a new adrenaline boost from the national exposure on ESPN.
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