Hello, back to some really silly stuff here at the Sickos Committee. If you don’t know about this already, you likely do if you follow us.

Every year in Omaha, Nebraska, the Men’s College World Series takes place. A nearby bar called Rocco’s started this Jell-O Shot Challenge in 2019. Took a year off for Covid like most of us, then the challenge began to take off in 2021 along with their social media accounts on Instagram and Twitter.

Fans of teams who made the College World Series wanted to show school pride by buying Jell-O shots. You have to enter the World Famous Jell-O Shot Room to order now. In previous years, they ran out of jello shots and had to free pour them.

One really cool thing too about this challenge is that Rocco’s donates the profits from this to the winning school. Fans can purchase one shot for $5, and $1 of each shot sold goes directly to the university’s food pantry, and 50 cents goes to a local food pantry in Omaha.

You can read more about the history of the challenge here if you don’t know.

Now the Jell-O Shot challenge winner is typically the team who gets to stay the longest in Omaha. It seems simple: play and win more games, stay in Omaha longer = buy more Jell-O shots. The past five winners of the College World Series all have won the Jell-O Shot Challenge.

This leaves the only team to win the College World Series but not Rocco’s Jell-O Shot Challenge as Vanderbilt. (2020 - Covid cancelled the CWS.)

First things first for the math. We know there are bigger schools and know from 2021 - 2023 the Jell-O shot contest hadn’t fully taken off and each year is a different animal.

LSU in 2025 won the College World Series in 5 games, but the record holder is LSU in 2023 and they basically played the full amount of games you can before winning the title, which allowed them to set the record with 68,888 shots consumed.

HOWEVER, the pace leader is 2025 LSU. They averaged 10,478 shots consumed per game in Omaha. 2023 LSU was second with 8,611 per game. Also, when Omaha gets a small school like Murray State, supposedly the locals buy for that school and it was enough to get Murray State in the Top 5 in pace.

Next I wanted to know how the performance of the team really affected the Jell-O shot consumption total. So we ran the numbers and projected the top Jell-O Shot consumers based on their team getting eliminated in 2 games. Basically, the winners in 2023-2025 set the best pace on average here, and their totals would still likely stack up with a chance to win. However, would they keep that pace up if their team wasn’t winning? Probably not.

LSU in 2023 had a two-game pace of 17,222. The nearest team in 2023 was Wake with 7,622. So, LSU would have won if they had gone out in two games keeping that pace.

Remember how we said it really took off in 2022 with Ole Miss, then went insane with 2023? Look at the worst performers from 2021 to 2025. Only one from 2023, Virginia. Everyone else from 2021 and 2022.

In 2021, Mississippi State was only at 424 jello shots per game, and they won the Jello Shot title and College World Series being there for SEVEN GAMES. The Bulldogs were less than 2023 Virginia in pace.

You can see how the worst performers would still take out the 2021 and 2022 champions. One constant seems to be Florida not wanting to participate in this too much, although they made a big jump.

Virginia actually over performed in 2024. Go Cavaliers. Also, again not bagging on 2021 Champ Mississippi State, but this Jell-O shot thing has really exploded in the past five years.

Look, it's 2021 Mississippi State again with Long Stay Low Pace in the bottom right. 2022 Champ Ole Miss with 18,777 Jell-O shots consumed is in the lower end of the High Stay/High Pace Dynasty with six games in 2022.

So what does this really mean? Nothing this was completely stupid exercise. Just kidding.

But for real, it's basically saying that there is a correlation between how long you are in Omaha (number of games) and the number of jello shots (consumed). That connection explains about 34% of the variance.

So some teams would have put up better total numbers if they had stayed longer. Which tends to lead to the conclusion that the winner of the Jell-O Shot contest is likely always going to be one of the teams that stays a long time. I mean, hypothetically, if LSU lost in 2023, they still would have won the Jell-O title as noted but the maintaining the pace while losing is the question. Maybe a team who plays five games and gets knocked out before the final could match 2025 LSU’s pace or just exceed 2024 Tennessee or Texas A&M’s pace to win.

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