Pop-Tarts Bowl MVP Rocco Becht had a tough choice to make. See what happened after Iowa State beat Miami football in a ...

Goldy Gopher was born a chipmunk. That’s because when George Grooms originally drafted the design in the 1940s that would become the University’s mascot, he lived in Iowa, where there were no gophers.

On the other end, an edible frosted cinnamon roll cake popped out for coaches and players from Iowa State to devour. The college football tradition of killing and eating the mascot has finished.

It's not every college football bowl game that features ritualistic sacrifice of a bowl game mascot after completion of the game. But then, not every team gets to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

Amid the nail-biting matchup between Iowa State University and the University of ... which involved the mascot ripping his aluminum wrapper open right down the middle. Throughout the evening ...

No. 19 Iowa State — which won the Pop-Tarts Bowl Saturday with a thrilling 42-41 come-from-behind win vs. No. 16 Miami — dug into a giant Pop-Tart in a postgame ceremony. The bowl game mascot ...