Tag: Pop-Tarts Bowl

The Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot is now the toastiest Halloween costume for 2024

Looking for a Halloween costume? We’ve got the perfect solution.

If you are looking for the perfect Halloween costume, look no further.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl introduced the world to the Pop-Tarts Frosted Strawberry Mascot last December, and now you can dress up like that very Pop-Tart mascot with your very own version of the costume.

Spirit Halloween will reportedly sell the costume to anyone who wishes to pay homage to the beloved bowl game mascot for Spooky Season this year.

While we’ll actually see the return of the Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot later this year, Halloween is the perfect time of year for you to dress up like this college football pastry icon.

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Notre Dame left off Jerry Palm’s College Football Playoff projection

Pin this one on the bulletin board.

All Notre Dame has to do is win the games it’s supposed to win in 2024, and it very likely will make the College Football Playoff. At least that’s what most people seem to believe. However, one expert has dared to challenge that belief.

Jerry Palm, CBS Sports’ College Football Playoff expert, has released his projections for the first year of the expanded playoff. Unlike most experts, he doesn’t have the Irish in his bracket.

Palm also has released his projections for the remaining bowl games, and he has the Irish facing Oklahoma State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, which would be a rematch of [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag]’s coaching debut in the Fiesta Bowl three years ago.

While the idea of the Irish eating a mascot as a postgame snack is fun to think about, it would signify disappointment in a season with high expectations. But it shows how the Irish won’t just be handed anything this season. They’ll need to earn their spot in the playoff, and it looks like that will involve proving some people wrong.

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There’s a candlelight vigil for the Pop-Tart mascot at ACC Kickoff because the conference appreciates its one true savior

Rest easy, sweet prince. You are in our hearts.

Michigan winning a national title? That was nice. But any true football fan will readily admit one moment from the 2023 college football postseason was the arrival and prompt destruction of a life-sized Pop-Tart.

Last winter was the backdrop to the world’s first Pop-Tarts Bowl, a game that pit the Kansas State Wildcats against the North Carolina State Wolfpack for something more than just bragging rights. The winner got to eat the mascot, a glorious, seven-foot anthropomorphic Pop-Tart, which was cooked in front of a raucous crowd demanding a strawberry filling sacrifice. The world stood in raw wonder as the willing martyr slowly descended into the bowels of an oversized toaster, only to slide out the bottom to be promptly devoured by the victorious Wildcats.

Folks at this year’s ACC Kickoff, the conference’s official start to the 2024 football season, promised this sacrifice would not be forgotten.

This, of course, leaves questions. Is the Pop-Tart ascending to heaven, or jumping into the toaster with the blessing of a higher power? What did his sacrifice give the world, aside from one giant, gruesome pastry destroying scene? And how many people have stopped to genuflect at the altar of the breakfast world’s one true savior?

These are all quandaries too big for one man to answer. Except the last one, I guess. You could probably just watch for a while and write down a total. Anyway, Pop-Tarts move in mysterious ways, and it’s not up to us to divine why but to understand there’s a music underneath it all, just waiting for us to hear it.

Athlon Sports projects Clemson to play in Pop-Tarts Bowl, missing the CFP

Clemson to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl and miss the college football playoffs, according to Athlon Sports.

It’s been four, going on five years since the Tigers made it to the playoffs, and Athlon Sports believes it will be at least another year before Clemson Football gets a shot, even with the new expansion.

In their 2024 college football bowl projections, Athlon has Clemson playing Oklahoma State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl (formerly the Cheez-It Bowl) at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

The Tigers have participated in the bowl game four times since its inception. They’re 3-1 all-time, with the one loss coming in Clemson’s first appearance (called the Tangerine Bowl then) to Texas Tech in 2002. They have since beaten Colorado (2005 Champs Sports Bowl), 19-10, Oklahoma (2015 Russel Athletic Bowl), 40-6, and Iowa State (2021 Cheez-It Bowl, 20-13.

If the matchup were to happen, it would be the first meeting between Oklahoma State and Clemson.

Here is the projected college football playoff via Athlon:

First Round

No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 9 Michigan
No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 12 Liberty
No. 6 Texas vs. No. 11 Notre Dame
No. 7 Ole Miss vs. No. 10 Penn State

College Football Playoff Quarterfinals

No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 8 Alabama (Sugar Bowl)
No. 4 Utah vs. No. 5 Oregon (Fiesta Bowl)
No. 3 Florida State vs. No. 6 Texas (Peach Bowl)
No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 7 Ole Miss (Rose Bowl)

College Football Playoff Semifinals

No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 5 Oregon (Orange Bowl)
No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 6 Texas (Cotton Bowl)

National Championship

No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 2 Ohio State

247Sports projects a Pop-Tarts Bowl appearance for Clemson in 2024

Swinney and the Tigers will aim to be in the playoff picture rather than this projected bowl.

The Clemson football program has a huge opportunity in 2024 as the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams.

The more teams, the more opportunities for the Tigers to return to the playoff and make a run at a title. While the team needs a lot of development for them to do so, college football is a crazy place where a lot can happen in a short period of time. 

Recently, 247Sports released their early bowl game projections for the 2024 season. Rather than in the playoff, they project a Pop-Tarts Bowl appearance in 2024 for the Tigers against Utah. An interesting matchup as Utah, like the Tigers, could definitely find themselves firmly in the playoff hunt next season. 

The reality right now is that this is definitely a possibility for the Tigers, but it’s not the only one. There is a lot of returning talent on this team, and development will make or break them in 2024. The defense has fewer worries, especially with Barrett Carter returning for another season. 

The offense is where things are make or break, it seems. Offensive coordinator Garrett Riley has a lot to prove to Clemson fans, but it goes beyond just him. Pretty much outside of running back, big improvements need to be made this offseason all over this offense. 

Clemson has an opportunity to make a statement in 2024.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl expects to resurrect its mascot for more bowl game shenanigans

THE POP-TARTS BOWL MASCOT WILL BE BACK!

You can toast a Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot, but you can’t keep it down for good.

After the roaring success of last week’s Pop-Tarts Bowl, Kellanova chief marketing officer Julie Bowerman hinted to The Wall Street Journal that the beloved Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot will return for another run this December.

“I can pretty convincingly tell you that won’t be the last time that you see our mascot come to life,” Bowerman said in an interview.

From the mascot’s hysterical entrance to becoming an instant meme and being cooked up for the Kansas State Wildcats, the Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot captured the imaginations of everyone online during its wild debut.

Thankfully, it doesn’t sound like the Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot will stay in the toaster for long. We’ll eagerly await its return, and we’ll sure hope the Pop-Tarts Bowl shenanigans will be even wackier next bowl game season.

Rest easy, Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot. We’ll see you soon.

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The Pop-Tart mascot everyone loved was reportedly played by a beloved former NBA mascot

Strawberry was named For The Win’s best mascot of bowl season.

When we think back to this college football bowl season, we’ll remember the perfectly unserious Pop-Tarts Bowl and its beloved mascot, Strawberry.

College football fans were first introduced to the mascot (non-edible version) when he gloriously popped out of a giant toaster on the field as “…Ready For It?” by Taylor Swift played in the background.

He captured the hearts of all those who watched the game and he became an instant meme for menacingly creeping behind a referee. Strawberry shared a hilarious message before it evolved into its final, edible form and he was then mourned by fans around the world once it was eaten.

As we tried to learn everything we possibly could about this mascot, we discovered some truly incredible reporting by ESPN’s Sarah Spain.

According to Spain, the mascot (non-edible version) was played by the same person who portrayed Benny The Bull for more than a decade until stepping away in 2016.

When he wore the costume we got to see what it was like to live as a mascot when he wore a Go-Pro; he had an amazing and powerful message to former Clippers owner Donald Sterling; he did acrobatic flips; he saved relationships between couples; he spilled popcorn on Rajon Rondo; he even made referees dance with him.

His legacy lives on and For The Win named Benny The Bull as the best mascot in the NBA. For The Win, meanwhile, recently crowned Strawberry as the best mascot of college football bowl season.

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The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl mascot wanted everyone to know it isn’t edible and college football fans had jokes

The mascot was CONCERNED for its safety.

While there are legitimate arguments to be made that expanding the College Football Playoff will take away from the non-CFP bowl games, those people are grossly underestimating a brand’s capacity for meme-worthy weirdness.

Bowl season will be fine when you have mascots being sacrificed (and eaten) and others fearing for its life.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl made for amazing television, and it had almost nothing to do with Kansas State’s win. It was weird, and the game’s mascot was lowered into a toaster and eaten as part of K-State’s celebration. So, on Monday, the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl mascot was not taking any chances.

The mascot held up a sign to let everyone know that it was not an edible mascot.

I mean, after the Pop-Tarts Bowl’s display, the Cheez-It mascot’s days are probably numbered. I’d fully expect it to be edible next season.

But until then, college football fans had jokes about the sign.

9 hilarious Pop-Tarts Bowl photos of, well, Pop-Tarts

Safe to say the Pop-Tarts Bowl is now a college football fan favorite.

It’s safe to say the Pop-Tarts Bowl, which is the beloved Cheez-It Bowl rebranded, is among college football fans’ favorite bowl games after Thursday night’s inaugural game.

There were Pop-Tarts everywhere — from the (non-edible) mascot popping out of a giant toaster to meet the people for the first time only to be eulogized after the game to victorious Kansas State players devouring the edible mascot to the subsequent Pop-Tarts-inspired memes.

RELATED: The Pop-Tarts Bowl was perfectly unserious and more bowl games should be exactly like it

Sure, the Wildcats topped NC State in an exciting game, but the abundance of Pop-Tarts really stole the show at Camping World Stadium in Orlando. And practically overnight, the bowl’s popularity exploded.

So here’s a look back at some hilarious Pop-Tarts photos from the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

In Honor of Pop-Tarts Bowl – Which Pop-Tarts are the Best?

In honor of the @poptartsbowl – which is your favorite flavor?

Back in June it was announced that the bowl game formerly known as the Cheez-It Bowl was changing its title sponsor to Pop-Tarts.  It is a game that Notre Dame played in previously when it was the Champs Sports Bowl and then again when it was the Camping World Bowl.

Notre Dame doesn’t play in it this year, instead that battle is between Kansas State and North Carolina State and takes place tonight.

When the news came down that the sponsor changed this past summer however, I sent a message to the team here at Fighting Irish Wire asking their pick for best flavor Pop-Tarts.  Here is what we came up with: