Universities: Preferred names

This may have been discussed here, although I don't believe directly. (forgive me if there is some overlap here from previous disussions) What are the "rules" for the preferred names that universities wish to go by. For example: • Is it appropriate for Ole Miss to be referred to as Mississippi • How commonly is Mississippi State called Miss State • Can LSU also be called Louisiana State • Has anyone ever spoken the name Pennsylvania State for Penn State (and if they did, would anyone know what the hell they were talking about) • Is UCLA the only school that is known strictly by initials (no Cal-LA, no UC Los Angeles, etc.). Or has UNLV approached that level. Aren't most of these schools listed by names such as Illinois-Chicago instead of UIC...even though the university itself would never call itself that name • Are the rules for Alabama/Bama, Missouri/Mizzou, California/Cal not as strict as those for Ole Miss or LSU • Do most initial schools (USC, BYU, TCU, SMU, etc.) always prefer the letters to the words • Which one is Michigan: U-M or U of M (I've heard both, while Minnesota has only been U of M) • Is Cal-Berkeley redundant since Cal is Berkeley • And while we're at it, does the above school have more names than any other in the nation: University of California (athletics only), University of California, Berkeley (offical), Cal, Cal Berkeley, UC Berkeley, UCB, Berkeley (and does UNC/UNCCH/Carolina/North Carolina come up second?) • Has Texas being UT broken some rule in the B12 world of MU, NU, KU, OU, and CU? • Does anyone use Ohio U. for the name of Ohio University instead of Ohio anymore....outside of the Ohio State crowd in Columbus • Do the two Miami's still need the Fla and Ohio distinctions to their names • How safe is it for flagships to drop city names: such as UW-Madison being UW, UT-Austin being UT, UIUC being U of I, UNCCH being UNC, etc. • Are Ohio State, Penn State, and Florida State the only states using "The" before their official names? And if so, why don't other such schools use the "The" to indicate full flagship status. Why isn't there....The Michigan State University • Is Pittsburgh ambiguous about "Pitt"...sometimes they use it; other times not • at Princeton, Auburn, Syracuse, etc., how do folks close by distinguish university from town It would seem to me that universities are far more known by their preferred names than their official ones; and it would be interesting to know what all the schools call themselves (as well as what others call them) This may be trivial, but it is also fun.>