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Is @BelkBowl a Tennessee Volunteers fan?

By CharlotteFive Staff

The Story

With college football bowl bids set to go out Sunday, the @BelkBowl Twitter account for Charlotte’s Dec. 30 game at Bank of America Stadium is either trolling for Tennessee fans – or tipping its hand.

The Facts

– @BelkBowl is very active on Twitter, and very good at interacting with fans.

– The account tweeted a spoof of the infamous Kim Kardashian booty magazine cover featuring Vols mascot Smokey. Tennessee fans nearly broke the internet.

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C5’s Take

– Perhaps @BelkBowl just has a thing for Bluetick coon hounds. And Smokey is cool.
– Tennessee — it’s less than four hours from campus to Bank of America Stadium — would help fill seats after UNC-Cincinnati left some (read: most) empty in 2013.
– N.C. State (#gopack!) would fill the rest.
– So would Notre Dame, which could end up here depending on the drawing.
– Just before this all started, @BelkBowl was begging for followers to get to 6,000, which they reached Tuesday night, fueled by Tennessee follows. #GoVols, indeed.

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Photo: Diedra Laird / Charlotte Observer

This story was originally published December 4, 2014 at 7:16 AM with the headline "Is @BelkBowl a Tennessee Volunteers fan?."

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