Tag: Pop-Tarts Bowl

The Pop-Tarts Bowl created an Oppenheimer parody to reveal its new toaster trophy

Okay, this is pretty hilarious.

The 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl unveiled a new trophy on Monday, and a new parody commercial has followed the toasty revelation.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl social team created an Oppenheimer parody of the new trophy, which doubles as a functional toaster.

Even if you haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning blockbuster, you have to appreciate the creativity on display.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl is the gift that keeps on giving, and we hope there are more parodies on display in the time to come.

Perhaps they’ll do a Gladiator parody next? Imagine it.

A big Pop-Tart gladiator standing in the coliseum, swinging a foam sword around after “vanquishing” a Toaster Strudel. Are you not entertained by the Pop-Tarts Bowl?! Okay, maybe not. This is still pretty fun.

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The Pop-Tarts Bowl trophy has a working toaster, because of course

A toaster. In a trophy.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl continues to be the quirkiest thing in all of sports, mostly because of the edible mascot, but we can’t get enough of all the stuff that comes along with that.

And now, there’s a twist with the trophy: thanks to some incredible work with GE Appliances, the winner of the 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl between Iowa State and Miami gets a trophy with … A WORKING TOASTER.

That’s right, the football at the top can be used to warm up a pair of Pop-Tarts. I would hope that the winner’s coach puts this thing in his kitchen and uses it for eternity.

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Pop-Tarts Bowl trophy now has built-in working toaster

The Pop-Tarts Bowl trophy rocks

The Pop-Tarts Bowl became a sensation last year. Winning it will mean more to either Iowa State or Miami when it comes to the trophy presentation.

That’s because the trophy for the game has an addition. The winning school in this edition gets hardware that has a working toaster.

Whoever came up with the brilliant idea deserves a raise or a year’s supply of Pop-Tarts.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl picked the worst flavor possible for its new creepy mascot

Sometimes nostalgia is bad. This is one of those times.

The Pop-Tarts Bowl was so fun last year. Creepy? Yes, sure. That’s fair to say. The Pop-Tart mascot is peak body horror. Something like that should not be running around with arms and legs. It should also not be edible. Like, guys. They really ate the Pop-Tart mascot. That’s wild.

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But I digress. What I really came here to do this morning was complain. Specifically about the new flavor being introduced to the bowl game.

The bowl will be a bit different this year. There are three Pop-Tarts now instead of one. We knew the first two flavors already: Wild-Berry and Hot Fudge Sundae. Those are already rough enough as is. The classic strawberry would’ve been a far better choice over either, but whatever. It’s fine.

There was still room for one more flavor. Instead of nailing the pick, the Pop-Tarts Bowl chose to revive one that will absolutely make your stomach curdle after eating it: Cinnamon Roll.

Guys, I cannot hide my disgust here.

I know this is probably a hot take. There are people (heathens!) out there who enjoy cinnamon roll Pop-Tarts. I’m sorry, but those people have lost their minds. That’s not a good Pop-Tart. The only reason one might think so is because of nostalgia.

That’s not working over here, though. There’s not enough nostalgia in the world. The warm and fuzzies are not present over here. Just disgust. Disgust at the lack of strawberry flavor involved in these selections.

It’s unfortunate. Someone has to eat these monstrosities. Luckily, it won’t be any of us. But sorry to the players who must subject themselves to this.

You deserve better.

Pop-Tarts Bowl to feature three flavored mascots in 2024

The Pop-Tarts Bowl will feature three flavors of the food in 2024

Why stick with one Pop-Tart when you can add two more flavors to the bowl game in 2024?

The popular mascot of the Pop-Tarts Bowl will have WIld Berry, Hot Fudge and a mystery flavor involved in the contest this year.

The Pop=Tarts mascot and everything that went along with it and the game became a viral sensation last year.

This year’s game kicks on Dec. 28 at 3:30 p.m. ET

Any guess on the mystery flavor that will be coming out of retirement?

Notre Dame projected as College Football Playoff quarterfinalist

Minds are starting to change about the Irish.

For much of the time after Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois, the Action Network’s Brett McMurphy was not empathetic. He consistently had the Irish in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, thus rendering their first season in the expanded College Football Playoff era a failure.

McMurphy has changed his tune about the Irish however. A week ago, he projected the Irish as the No. 10 seed in the playoff. While he had them losing to Penn State, it still was a sign of progress.

Now, McMurphy has flipped the seeds for the Irish and Nittany Lions, meaning the Irish now would host the first-round game. What’s more, he has the Irish winning the game, which would give them a New Year’s Day date with Georgia at the Sugar Bowl. Regrettably, that’s where he has the Irish’s run ending, but this still is a nice projection.

A lot has to go right for the Irish to get as far as McMurphy thinks they will, but that he even made this projection shows how much the narrative surrounding the Irish has changed for the better.

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Brett McMurphy projects Notre Dame out of playoff, in Pop-Tarts Bowl

Maybe start booking your trips to Orlando now?

Let’s get one thing straight: Notre Dame will aim for the College Football Playoff as long as it has a chance. At this point, the best thing it can do is run the table for the rest of the regular season. But there always is a chance that that won’t happen, and the Irish thus will be on the outside looking in.

Brett McMurphy of the Action Network has released his weekly bowl projections, and he has the Irish out of the playoff. Instead, he projects that the Irish will face TCU in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

It’s worth noting that McMurphy has had the Irish in this particular game ever since they lost to Northern Illinois. The only thing that occasionally has changed during that time is the opponent. So in his view, the Irish have not beaten anybody of high-enough quality since that loss to prove they belong in the playoff.

While it would be fun to see the Irish end their season eating their bowl game’s mascot, it’s not the end goal. Hopefully, they can make it so that it won’t have to be.

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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.