Chip Towers is on the story. Uga VII has been selected. We won’t get to see him until the end of the month, and any pictures you’ve seen to this point claiming to be of the new Uga are hoaxes.

Seiler said he is working with UGA sports communication director Claude Felton to issue a detailed news release about the new dog — including pictures — on Aug. 29. However, Uga VII won’t make his first public appearance until he is unveiled in a pregame ceremony the next day.

Seiler described how they arrived at the decision. “We all holed up in a room for two days and considered all the possibilities,” he said. And everyone thought I was pulling their leg with my exclusive look into the selection process.