2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl

The 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2025, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The 36th annual Pop-Tarts Bowl began at approximately 3:30 p.m. EST and aired on ABC. The Pop-Tarts Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The bowl game's title sponsor was Kellanova through their Pop-Tarts brand of toaster pastries. Bowl organizers promoted this edition of the bowl as “The People’s National Championship.”
[2025 2025 BYU Cougars football team|BYU Cougars football team|BYU] of the Big 12 Conference defeated [2025 2025 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|Georgia Tech] of the Atlantic Coast Conference by a 25–21 score.

Teams

Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game featured Georgia Tech of the Atlantic Coast Conference and BYU from the Big 12 Conference. Notre Dame received an invitation to the 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl but withdrew from bowl game consideration for the 2025–26 bowl season. Georgia Tech and BYU had previously met four times, with BYU holding a 3–1 series lead.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Georgia Tech opened their season with eight consecutive wins, and were ranked as high as seventh. They suffered three losses in their final four regular-season games and entered the Pop-Tarts Bowl with a 9–3 record.

BYU Cougars

BYU also opened their season with eight consecutive wins, also reaching number seven in the polls. They lost to [2025 2025 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team|Texas Tech Red Raiders football team|Texas Tech] on November 8, won their next three games, then lost again to Texas Tech in the Big 12 Championship Game. The Cougars entered the Pop-Tarts Bowl with an 11–2 record.