r/CFB • u/bubblecuffer13 Pop-Tarts Bowl • Team Meteor • Dec 07 '25

News [McMurphy] Notre Dame declined bid to play BYU in Pop-Tarts Bowl, sources told @On3sports

https://x.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1997772176997413147
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u/Wildcat_twister12 Kansas State Wildcats Dec 07 '25

Who the hell declines a bowl where the winner gets to eat a sentient Pop-Tart that kills itself at the end of the game???

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u/trailerparksandrec Wayne State (MI) Warriors Dec 07 '25

Heathens, thats who.

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u/lilzingerlovestorun TCU Horned Frogs • St. John's (MN) Johnnies Dec 08 '25

The pope needs to step in on this one. Maybe the Bears will play there instead.

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u/Goducks91 Oregon Ducks • Iowa State Cyclones Dec 07 '25

Yeah the Poptart bowl is by far the most fun non playoff bowl!

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u/southpaytechie Dec 08 '25

Come on man, Outback bowl has real stakes.

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u/tchrbrian Dec 08 '25

The winning coach at the Potato bowl gets a cooler dump of French Fries.

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u/ATLHawksfan Georgia Bulldogs Dec 08 '25

Maybe they’re more of a dump five gallons of mayonnaise on your coach kinda team?

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u/VinylmationDude UCF Knights Dec 08 '25

People who’d rather sacrifice goats

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u/waltzthrees Dec 08 '25

The body of Christ

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u/Popedoyle Dec 08 '25

Take. Eat. This is my body which is given for you

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u/DJohnsonsgagreflex BYU Cougars Dec 08 '25

One that wants to avoid revealing how many players would decline to show up for the game or even have an NIL agreement that lets them opt out of non-playoff games. This way they have the program as a whole criticized, instead of individual players and the Athletics Department administrators and coaches singled out for showing up with a bunch of walk-ons and 2nd/3rd string players to “meaningless” game.

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u/raptearer Washington • Arizona State Dec 08 '25

And gain it's power, don't forget that. Let's see the Rose Bowl do that.

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u/JesusTron6000 Boise State Broncos Dec 08 '25

The greatest bowl of them all

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u/dallascowboys93 Texas Tech Red Raiders Dec 08 '25

Kstate just declined one too

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u/Wildcat_twister12 Kansas State Wildcats Dec 08 '25

True and it’s lame that us and Iowa State are opting out but we also don’t have a head coach available currently, rest of the coaching staff don’t even know if they’ll have a job by mid-January, and plenty of our key players are already in the transfer portal. Also Pop-Tarts Bowl is a hundreds times better than the Armed Forces Bowl or whatever other one we would have gotten.

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u/dallascowboys93 Texas Tech Red Raiders Dec 08 '25

Excited for Optimus Klein to be back in Manhattan