Colonel Reb was the official mascot of Ole Miss Rebels, the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, Mississippi. Designed in 1936,[1] the Colonel served as the teams' official sideline mascot from 1979 until 2003. The university replaced him in 2010 with a new on-field mascot, the Black Bear, who was replaced with Tony the Landshark in 2018.