UNLV promoted Miki Sudo as the headliner for its donut-eating contest at Friday night’s college football game in Las Vegas. However, she bailed on her alma mater so the Rebels’ head basketball coach had to step up.
It was a major letdown!
Sudo, the greatest female competitive eater of all-time, is a 10-time champion at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. The 39-year-old is the queen to Joey Chestnut’s king. To call her a “legend” would be understated. No woman in history has come close to her accomplishments and no woman ever will.
Sudo attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was supposed to return to her alma mater for a college football game on Friday night. The Rebels are off to one of their best starts in program history. They could end up in up the College Football Playoff as the Group of Five representative.
As part of all the excitement at Allegiant Stadium, UNLV held a donut-eating contest in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness. They were tasked with eating a dozen pink-frosted donuts as quickly as possible.
Oh lord. These could be tough! #UNLV donut eating contest in 10 minutes.
— COFIELD (@stevecofield) October 5, 2024
UNLV holds Syracuse to a FG in the final minute of the half
Rebels lead 21-17 pic.twitter.com/ClwTWX78PX
Former quarterback Kenny Mayne was the host and the list of participants included UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame offensive lineman and current UNLV Faculty Athletics Representative Dr. Tony Terrell, ESPN Las Vegas radio host and UNLV football radio sideline reporter Steve Cofield, student representative Emmie Cabrales from the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority, and head basketball coach Kevin Kruger. Sudo was also supposed to be among them.
Unfortunately, according to boots on the ground, she completely no-showed the event.
Where was Miki Sudo?!
No further information or clarification regarding her absence has been provided at this point in time but Kruger did his best to keep her pace even without her there. He struggled to do so.
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) October 5, 2024
In the end, it was Cofield and Terrell who proved victorious. They could only get through five donuts each.
Halftime show is a donut eating contest here in Allegiant Stadium. Just saw a man dunk his donuts in water to help get them down quicker, got some real fighters in this contest. The two contestants on the left tied at five, so they are co-winners.@CitrusTVSports pic.twitter.com/bFFYrck33K
— Adam Cohen (@A_Cohen6) October 5, 2024
Miki Sudo would’ve had no problem with 12 donuts. The fans in attendance who expected to see the greatest of all-time go to work were robbed of a memory they would not soon forget.
To make matters worse, UNLV lost the game in overtime. Maybe the Rebels would’ve been able to overcome the Syracuse Orange if Sudo had energized the crowd by shoving donuts down her gullet at halftime…