Pop-Tarts, Cheez-It, and Snoop Dogg Keep It Weird During College Bowl Season

A crowded sponsorship field means College Football Playoff partners give 110% to stand out

For brands sponsoring college bowl games, it’s no longer enough to turn your cheese cracker into a mascot or burn your toaster-pastry mascot alive and have teams eat it in front of fans: You need to be the Snoop Dogg of postseason play.

There are 47 bowl games that comprise college football bowl season in 2024-25. That’s up from 39 at the end of the 2014-15 college football season and just 28 two decades ago. For companies attaching their brands to these postseason experiences, there’s considerable incentive to get a little weird with their sports marketing and separate themselves from the pack.

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Jason Notte

Jason Notte was a staff writer at ADWEEK.