The school soccer bowl season is upon us, and there may be however one sport on everybody’s thoughts. Whereas many older pundits lament the bigger 12-team format of the new-look playoffs as a diluted model of what makes faculty soccer so compelling, there may be one factor that’s by no means watered down. That factor is chilly brew. And the successful coach of tonight’s marquee bowl sport, The Scooter’s Espresso Frisco Bowl, might be carrying gallons of it.
That’s proper, the Scooter’s Espresso Frisco Bowl, which feels like a joke we’d write within the Sprudge Slack however is as a substitute a really actual factor, might be hosted tonight on nationwide tv. For the second 12 months in a row, the espresso firm is serving because the title sponsor for the Frisco Bowl, going down at Toyota Stadium within the far north Dallas suburb. Which implies you shouldn’t count on any Gatorade baths. With kickoff mere hours away, this 12 months’s contest pits the #25 Memphis Tiger Stripes towards the West Virginia Excessive Elevation Mountaineers in a winner-take-all bid to douse their head coach in 5, perhaps 10 gallons of chilly brew espresso from a water-cooler sized novelty to-go espresso cup.
Final 12 months it was College of Texas, San Antonio head coach Jeff Traylor who obtained the additional massive pour-over, however after a ho-hum 6-6 report this 12 months, Traylor and UTSA needed to accept the Myrtle Seaside Bowl, and what, a sand tub I assume?
Thus the door has opened for Memphis and WVU to fill the ability vacuum. Who’s going to win? Who’s getting the doppio dunk this 12 months? Will or not it’s Memphis’s Ryan Silverfield or WVU interim head coach Chad Scott? The simple decide right here is Memphis, ranked 25 and with 4 extra wins this 12 months than WVU. However West Virginia has been there earlier than, they know what it takes to earn the novelty foodstuff-based bowl celebrations, as they did with final 12 months’s mayo dunk on the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
In the end, this matchup will come down to 1 factor: espresso prowess. And the sting right here has to go to Memphis. Whereas Morgantown has good outlets like Mountaineer Roasting Co and the Espresso Tree Roasters, it’s exhausting to maintain up with the glut of nice espresso in Memphis. Cxffee Black/Anti-Gentrification Espresso Membership, Boycott Espresso, Metropolis and State, Comeback Espresso, Vice and Advantage, Congregation…the Memphis roster is just too deep to be denied.
However don’t let WVU hold round. Something can occur within the closing seconds in case you let Coach Scott free pour a gadget play in his sideline latte artwork. We might see one other Finca Inmaculada Reception.
We’ll know quickly sufficient, when the Scooter’s Espresso Frisco Bowl kicks off tonight at 8:00pm CST.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Community and a workers author primarily based in Dallas. Learn extra Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
