Pop-Tarts pastry bails on celebration and 4 other wild moments from bowl game

Tensions got toasty astatine the Pop-Tarts Bowl betwixt the BYU Cougars and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets connected Saturday night.

While Georgia Tech held the pb for astir of the game, BYU pulled disconnected a barnstorming comeback to triumph the crippled 25-21. The Cougars finished the play 12-2 portion Georgia Tech ended the twelvemonth 9-4.

Pop-Tarts brought amusive to a vessel game, portion the contention itself came down to the wire.

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Georgia Tech observe a interaction down with the Pop-Tarts mascot against BYU during the archetypal fractional of the Pop-Tarts Bowl NCAA assemblage shot game, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025, successful Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/Kevin Kolczynski)

Read beneath for the 5 champion moments from the 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl.

Pop-Tarts ingrains itself into the vessel game

Pop-Tarts Bowl signage is displayed for the Pop-Tarts Bowl betwixt BYU Cougars and the  and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets connected Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025 astatine Camping World Stadium successful Orlando, Florida. (Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Most vessel games that bash not person stakes attached to it are written disconnected arsenic boring oregon pointless. But Pop-Tarts brought the amusive for the 3rd consecutive year. Part of it was the unsocial flare of the extremity portion and sideline art. BYU and Georgia Tech each had their schoolhouse names successful their extremity zones accompanied by sprinkles. The sprinkles were besides featured connected the sidelines and the helmets of each player.

Pop-Tarts Ring of Honor

Pop-Tarts unveiled its Ring of Honor astatine Camping World Stadium, paying tribute to the Pop-Tarts that were eaten successful the 2 anterior vessel games. Cookies and Creame, Hot Fudge Sundae and Frosted Wild Berry held commemorative jackets and did the champion they could to grant Strawberry and Cinnamon Roll.

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Pregame unveiling

It wasn’t the Ohio State University set dotting the "I" but it was inactive fun. Pop-Tarts held a pregame ceremonial to amusement the assemblage successful Orlando, Florida, what Pop-Tarts were being featured for the vessel game. There were six Pop-Tarts successful full separating into 2 teams – Team Sprinkles and Team Swirls. Sprinkles included Protein Slammin’ Strawberry, Cookies and Creme an Frosted Cherry. Swirls included Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Frosted Wild Berry and Frosted Hot Fudge Sundae.

Bear Bachmeier leads comeback

The Pop-Tarts mascots observe with the BYU Cougars pursuing the 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl betwixt the BYU Cougars and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets astatine Camping World Stadium connected Dec. 27, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

The Cougars trailed 21-10 going into the 4th fourth and needed to excavation heavy to someway propulsion disconnected a victory. A blocked Georgia Tech tract extremity with 55 seconds near successful the 3rd 4th sparked that comeback. Touchdowns from Enoch Nawahine and Jovesa Damuni on with a Bachmeier 2-point conversion helped BYU triumph the game.

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Protein Slammin’ Strawberry bails out

The Pop-Tarts Bowl payoff was expected to beryllium a grounds 3 pastries descending into a elephantine toaster for the winning squad to enjoy. Protein Slammin’ Strawberry, Cookies and Creame and Cherry were connected the apical of the toaster dancing to the euphony and awaiting their fates.

Protein Slammin’ Strawberry held a motion that read, "Not my imagination … yet." The pastry past dove disconnected the toaster and ran away. A connection wherever the Pop-Tarts pastry should person been read, "You haven't seen the past of me!"

The Cookies and Creme and Cherry Pop-Tarts went into the toaster and were served arsenic elephantine treats for the champions.

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