Athletics
Middle Tennessee's athletic teams, known as the Blue Raiders, compete in the Sun Belt Conference of NCAA's Division I in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly Division I-A).
The most prominent athletic facilities on the campus are Johnny "Red" Floyd football stadium and Murphy Center basketball stadium. MTSU has won two national championships: golf in 1965, and men's doubles tennis in 2007. The Blue Raider football team has won the Sun Belt Championship two times (2001 and 2006), and has participated in three bowl games (2006, 2009, and 2010).
The MTSU mascot is "Lightning," a winged horse based on Pegasus from Greek mythology.
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