Disappointed. Hurt. Betrayed. These were just a few of the emotions fans felt at the end of Wisconsin's 42-28 win over Wake Forest in the Duke's Mayo Bowl on Wednesday.
The Badgers had the win well in hand, leading 42-21 as Wake Forest drove down the field in the final seconds. Cameras were fixed on Wisconsin players as they prepared to drench head coach Paul Chryst with a postgame victory bath in the big Duke's Mayo Bowl jar. After the Demon Deacons scored a garbage time touchdown with six seconds remaining, the Badgers decided to go ahead and celebrate.
This was the moment fans were waiting for. The broadcast had been teasing a mayo bath the entire game, and that was the sole reason many fans had stayed tune in.
— Duke's Mayo Bowl (@DukesMayoBowl) December 30, 2020
my entire timeline is tweeting about potentially seeing a bucket of mayo dumped on a head football coach today, and this is how I know I follow the right people.
— Nicole Auerbach 😷 (@NicoleAuerbach) December 30, 2020
if you tuned into a mid-tier bowl game to see if a coach would get mayo dumped on his head you don’t meed to worry about what’s in the vaccine
— Aria Gerson (@aria_gerson) December 30, 2020
personally I don’t think they’re going to dump a mayo cooler on the winning coach. the consistency of mayo is too thick, you can’t dump 20 pounds of congealed egg on an old man.
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) December 30, 2020
hoping to be proven wrong
The only problem? There wasn't any mayonnaise in the jar; it was just a water cooler.
the Mayo Bowl has betrayed us
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) December 30, 2020
it was not mayo in the jug
SAD! pic.twitter.com/mpM8z6I2pn
Obviously, fans weren't pleased.
they really spent 4 hours teasing a mayo bath and then the bucket of mayo was actually a bucket of water pic.twitter.com/0oitCmvjcd
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) December 30, 2020
It wasn’t Mayo. We riot at dawn pic.twitter.com/oliBW3WqR4
— Pregame Empire (@PregameEmpire) December 30, 2020
.@DukesMayoBowl It wasn't mayo!!! We've been hoodwinked!!!! pic.twitter.com/ihvjYdpide
— Jim Weber (@JimMWeber) December 30, 2020
I have never been more disappointed in my life.
— Jim Weber (@JimMWeber) December 30, 2020
I will never eat another bite of Duke's Mayo.
what’s the point of playing football in a pandemic if we can’t see a coach covered in mayo
— Harry Lyles Jr. (@harrylylesjr) December 30, 2020
TFW WHEN THE COOLER DOESN’T HAVE MAYO. pic.twitter.com/VTl1hB9t5R
— Duke's Mayo Bowl (@DukesMayoBowl) December 30, 2020
Seeing a grown man take a mayo bath would have been the perfect way to end 2020. Alas, we'll just have to wait until next year to see if Duke's can right this wrong.