We’re winding our way to the end of bowl season this week, and it’s been a wild ride. Before it’s all over, we should stop to appreciate some of the unheralded personalities that make this magical month possible - the bowl mascots.
Sure, you may be familiar with some of the more popular bowl mascots. There’s the impish potato man from the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. There’s the Orange Bowl’s orange, who every year gives me three seconds of “wait, did Syracuse make a major bowl?” confusion. And then, of course, there’s the Outback Bowl, whose mascot I believe is some kind of poisonous flower?