The 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl featured gorgeous soccer: No. 18 ranked Iowa St. knocked off No. 13 Miami in a high-scoring, 42-41 victory. Nonetheless, when it got here to the Pop-Tarts Bowl, hardly anybody was speaking concerning the precise soccer.
That is as a result of it is likely one of the most splendidly unhinged occasions you may ever see. Final yr, the sport generated headlines after it “sacrificed” its strawberry mascot as a toasted trophy for the successful staff. In 2024, the Pop-Tarts Bowl ramped issues up. That they had a competitors amongst Pop Tart mascots to be sacrificed, they resurrected final yr’s pastry, they ripped packaging off, and all-in-all simply bought tremendous bizarre.
Solely at this bizarre faculty soccer recreation may you see a humanoid Pop-Tart being lowered to its “loss of life” with an indication studying “Comply with Your Desires.” Naturally, the web cherished all of it.
Mashable High Tales
This BlueSky submit from Anne T. Donahue actually summed the festivities — which all centered round a Pop Tart going to “mouth heaven” — by mainly calling it a Mad Males fever dream.
The festivities actually have been one thing else — I, for one, can’t look ahead to the 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl.
