Top 25 DI College Football Teams Found on Breached Password Lists
1. Georgia Tech (GT)
2. University of Kansas (KU)
3. University of Florida (UF)
4. Virginia Tech University (VT)
5. Arizona State University (ASU)
6. University of Georgia (UGA)
7. Old Dominion University (ODU)
8. East Carolina University (ECU)
9. University of North Carolina (UNC)
10. University of Southern California (USC)
11. Southern Methodist University (SMU)
12. University of Alabama - Birmingham (UAB)
13. Louisiana State University (LSU)
14. Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
15. Brigham Young University (BYU)
16. University of South Florida (USF)
17. Penn State University (PSU)
18. Texas Christian University (TCU)
19. Florida State University (FSU)
20. Florida International University (FIU)
21. Texas A&M University (TAMU)
22. University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA)
23. University of Central Florida (UCF)
24. University of Texas - El Paso (UTEP)
25. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Top 10 Nicknames/Mascots
Utah Utes
- Florida Gators
- New Mexico Lobos
- Florida State Seminoles
- Akron Zips
- UCLA Bruins
- Oklahoma State Pokes
- Oklahoma Sooners
- Texas Longhorns
- Wisconsin Badgers
In total, college football team names and mascots appear more than 77 million times on breached password lists.
In today’s cybersecurity threat landscape, any use of a college football team name or mascot must be part of a much larger and complex password if they are to be used at all.
