The Toast Toss Still Needs Your Vote

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The toast toss is still alive.

Penn's No. 8-seeded toast throw routed No. 1 Florida State in the opening round of SiriusXM College Sports Nation's "College Football Traditions Tournament," for which voting began July 1 and ended July 7.  The toss earned 2,833 votes and was pitted up against FSU's Chief Osceola's Flaming Spear, which notched only 1,151 votes.

Now Penn faces No. 4 Mississippi State's Cow Bells after the Bulldogs knocked out No. 5 Auburn's War Eagle in the first round. You can vote for the toast toss here until July 12 and see the entire bracket here.

The toast throw has been a staple of Penn football games since the late 1970s, after alcohol was banned at Franklin Field. Back in October, I wrote two pieces on the toast toss, one which chronicled how DP alum Alan Schwarz helped save the tradition in 1988, and another noting longtime Franklin Field head groundskeeper Donald Kelly's perspective on the tradition.