The Belk Bowl was born in 2002, but it was the Continental Tire Bowl then and became the Meineke Car Bowl after that before the department store purchased the naming rights in 2011. The game was created by Raycom Sports, a television production company.
It is, and always has been, a monument to capitalism. It is, and always has been, what the majority of all college football bowl games are – television programming created as a platform for advertisements and sponsorships that put a lot of money in a lot of people’s pockets.
Deebo Samuel announced Monday that he won’t participate in the Belk Bowl when South Carolina (7-5) takes on Virginia (7-5) on Dec.