A victory of sorts
Every year during the week prior to the Rose Bowl, the two competing teams gather at a swanky restaurant and vie to see which one can consume more pounds of prime rib.
The Outback Bowl has a similar event although they don’t keep track of which team eats the most. However, Outback officials reported that at the annual Team Welcome Dinner on Friday night — at Outback Steakhouse, of course — the players from Iowa and South Carolina wolfed down “more than 5,500 pounds of food including: 750 pounds of steak, 750 pounds chicken, 900 poundsof ribs, 700 pounds of bleu cheese Wedge Salad, 200 pounds of green beans, 950 pounds of Bloomin Onions, pounds lbs of cheese cake, 85 gallons of barbecue sauce and 60 cases of soda and water.”
Some of those numbers seem a tad high. The Bloomin’ Onion number, for example, computes to about three pounds per player. These guys may be belching all the way up to game time.
We’ll also never know if the Iowa kids consumed more than their South Carolina counterparts — we’re betting they did — but Iowa already had a small victory of sorts earlier in the day when head coach Kirk Ferentz announced that it appears all his players are academically eligible to play in next Thursday’s game. South Carolina earlier declared that three of its players are ineligible, including All-SEC safety Emmanuel Cook.
