Wednesday’s bowl game between Wisconsin and Wake Forest ended in incredibly disappointing fashion. And it really had nothing to do with what actually happened on the field.
The celebratory Gatorade bath has evolved during bowl season, and depending on the bowl game’s sponsor, anything from smoothies to Frosted Flakes could get dumped on the winning coach’s head. This season so far, we’ve had a french fry bath in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and a Cheez-It bath in the Cheez-It Bowl.
So it makes sense that college football fans expected the winner of the Wisconsin-Wake Forest game, the winner of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, would get a mayonnaise bath.
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It seemed like the only reasonable outcome, and teasing of this mayo bath throughout the broadcast had people enthusiastically waiting for the end of the game. Not because they’re necessarily Badgers or Demon Deacons fans, but because of the possibility of a mayo bath.
Well, the game ended, Wisconsin won, 42-28, and coach Paul Chryst was not doused with mayo from a giant jug with Duke’s Mayo written on it.
Missed opportunity for a mayo bath in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl … pic.twitter.com/jA9YyXBkvG
— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) December 30, 2020
It was a massive letdown — no matter how unlikely this type of bath may have been — and a wasted opportunity we can only hope is rectified next year.
Naturally, college football Twitter was rightfully devastated, and even Duke’s chimed in with a joke, recognizing how crushed people were that Chryst didn’t leave the field covered in mayonnaise.
TFW WHEN THE COOLER DOESN’T HAVE MAYO. pic.twitter.com/VTl1hB9t5R
— Duke's Mayo Bowl (@DukesMayoBowl) December 30, 2020