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Florida State was hoping to bounce back from its loss to Georgia Tech with what was supposed to be an easy win over Boston College on Monday night, and one Seminoles fan who made a very bold pledge involving dog poop got called out by Scott Van Pelt on SportsCenter after taking the coward’s way out.
The Florida State Seminoles headed into the 2024 college football campaign with a chip on their shoulder after being snubbed from the four-team playoff last season, but their revenge tour got off to a rocky start when they were upset by Georgia Tech in Ireland to open up the year.
FSU had the chance to get back on track against the Boston College Eagles at home on Labor Day in a contest where they were 16.5-point favorites at kickoff.
One fan who went by @321nole on Twitter was incredibly confident they wouldn’t have any trouble with a B.C. squad that almost beat them last year to the point where they promised to film themselves eating dog poop out of a Solo cup if FSU didn’t walk away with the win.
Accounts get deleted, but the Internet remembers… pic.twitter.com/rQeElM8jKi
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) September 3, 2024
As you can probably surmise from my use of the past tense in the previous sentence and the tweet archiving the pledge the fan in question made last Friday, that ill-advised assertion was suddenly nowhere to be found after the guy decided to delete his account midway through a contest where B.C. jumped out to an early lead before coasting to a 28-13 victory to essentially drive a stake through the heart of FSU’s College Football Playoff hopes.
Plenty of people called out the fan for attempting to wriggle their way out of that self-imposed punishment in the wake of the upset—including Scott Van Pelt, who used the platform he was given as the host of the episode of SportsCenter that aired after the contest to put him on blast.
"They're not down as bad as that dude on the internet who said he'd eat dog poop out of a solo cup. You think you just get to delete your account? The internet ain't gonna forget that, buddy. You don't get to just keep it moving and get a new name…" – @notthefakeSVP pic.twitter.com/hLFTHCrBq6
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 3, 2024
Some internet detectives have made it their mission to track down and identify the man in question in the hopes of making him live up to his word, and nothing sums up what makes college football as great as it is quite like this story.