Sports world has funny reactions after Belk Bowl renamed Duke's Mayo Bowl

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College football has a new silly bowl game name that fans will have an endless amount of fun mocking in the years to come. The Belk Bowl is now the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.

The name change was announced Thursday morning with a funny short video featuring former Boston College and Carolina Panthers star linebacker Luke Kuechly.

https://twitter.com/belkbowl/status/1273616512570589184

ESPN’s Brett McMurphy shared some details about how the Duke’s Mayo Bowl will determine its teams.

Duke’s Mayo Bowl is new name for Belk Bowl. The Charlotte bowl will feature ACC team vs. either SEC or Big Ten team
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) June 18, 2020

But the real news here is the name itself. Duke’s Mayo Bowl. There are so many fun things about this. Here’s how the sports world reacted to this glorious new bowl name.

https://twitter.com/adup512/status/1273622837585199104

Get ready for the most horrifying scene in sports: the winning coach of the Duke's Mayo Bowl getting a giant drum of mayonnaise dumped on him. https://t.co/meJSWpfnBf
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) June 18, 2020

Same social media sense of humor as its predecessor I see. Duke's Mayo Bowl getting a lot of traction today, even if some of it is anti-Mayo. I'll join Luke and put it on my home-grown tomato sandwich ANY DAY https://t.co/LSgPsS4EVa
— Thomas Murphy (@TomMurphyADG) June 18, 2020

Being the fifth best team in the B1G

Getting to go to the Duke’s Mayo Bowl pic.twitter.com/48pC6ngdMP
— Sauna Insider (@NickHannula) June 18, 2020

Now we gotta get Duke to play in the Duke's bowl & we'll all simultaneously faint.

Gimme that Greenville-born mayo! #yeahthatgreenville https://t.co/9zTbEZKKbC
— 𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕪 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕤𝕠𝕟 (@ColorOfGrey) June 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/MaxwellGregson/status/1273621136551677955

https://twitter.com/aoboggs/status/1273620300891148295

Not everyone was super excited about the name, though.