{"id":2273165,"date":"2026-02-09T00:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2273165"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:10:46","slug":"who-won-puppy-bowl-2026-who-won-mvp-most-valuable-pup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/who-won-puppy-bowl-2026-who-won-mvp-most-valuable-pup\/","title":{"rendered":"Who won Puppy Bowl 2026? Who won MVP (Most Valuable Pup)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"88526196007\" title=\"'Puppy Bowl' celebrates adoption and fun on Super Bowl Sunday\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/02\/05\/USAT\/88526190007-20260204-ent-dan-schachner-puppy-bowl-thumbnail-01.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>&#8216;Puppy Bowl&#8217; celebrates adoption and fun on Super Bowl Sunday<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Puppy Bowl&#8221; referee Dan Schachner explains how the promotes nationwide pet adoption and brings families together before the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>The winner of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2026\/01\/08\/puppy-bowl-super-sunday-animal-planet-adoption\/88080306007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2026\/01\/08\/puppy-bowl-super-sunday-animal-planet-adoption\/88080306007\/\">2026 Puppy Bowl<\/a>, aka the cutest competition in sports, is &#8230;<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>The 22nd annual\u00a0Puppy Bowl\u00a0featured puppies on Team Ruff and Team Fluff competing in a mutt-size football stadium for the Wayfair Lombarky Trophy. It was a dog-eat-dog world out on the field Sunday afternoon as a record 150 adoptable puppies from 72 shelters across the U.S., Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands battled for the coveted title.<\/p>\n<p>Did Team Ruff come out victorious this year, or did <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/entertainment\/2025\/02\/09\/who-won-puppy-bowl-2025-who-won-most-valuable-pup\/78327938007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/entertainment\/2025\/02\/09\/who-won-puppy-bowl-2025-who-won-most-valuable-pup\/78327938007\/\">reigning champion Team Fluff<\/a> sweep the competition for the second year in a row? Here&#8217;s a look.<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"88194301007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Who won the 2026 Puppy Bowl?<\/h2>\n<p>Team Fluff won the Lombarky Trophy\u00a0in the 2026 Puppy Bowl, winning 73-69 over Team Ruff.<\/p>\n<p>Team Fluff&#8217;s Twilight Barkle, a special needs dog with a protruding forehead from Hearts &amp; Bones Rescue in Dallas, scored the game&#8217;s final touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruff-free&#8221; Dan Schachner presented the trophy to Meeko from Paws Across Pittsburgh, the Team Fluff captain.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/12\/puppy-bowl-2023-winner-recap-team-fluff-takes-top-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrity.land<\/a>, officials have only been tracking scores for the last seven years, meaning Team Fluff has a record of 5-4 against Team Ruff.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">What was the final score of the 2026 Puppy Bowl?<\/h2>\n<p>The final score of the 2026 Puppy Bowl was 73-69.<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/02\/07\/PCIN\/78337981007-mary-maxx-foxtrot.JPG bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/02\/07\/PCIN\/78337981007-mary-maxx-foxtrot.JPG?crop=4462,3346,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/02\/07\/PCIN\/78337981007-mary-maxx-foxtrot.JPG?crop=2510,3346,x1004,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/02\/07\/PCIN\/78337981007-mary-maxx-foxtrot.JPG?crop=5019,2824,x0,y261 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Provided by Ryan Muir\/Animal Planet\" caption=\"The 2025 Puppy Bowl.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Who won the 2026 Puppy Bowl MVP?<\/h2>\n<p>Team Fluff&#8217;s Boba, from the Humane Society of Missouri in St. Louis, was crowned the game&#8217;s MVP (Most Valuable Pup).<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Who won the Puppy Bowl last year?<\/h2>\n<p>Team Fluff won the\u00a021st annual Puppy Bowl\u00a0in 2025, beating Team Ruff 68-66. Foxtrot, a border collie mix from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was named the game&#8217;s MVP.<\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2026-02-08 19:21:29.112965764 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2026-02-08 19:21:29.112965764 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cincinnati.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Puppy Bowl&#8217; celebrates adoption and fun on Super Bowl Sunday &#8220;Puppy Bowl&#8221; referee Dan Schachner explains how the promotes nationwide pet adoption and brings families together before the Super Bowl. The winner of the 2026 Puppy Bowl, aka the cutest competition in sports, is &#8230; The 22nd annual\u00a0Puppy Bowl\u00a0featured puppies on Team Ruff and Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2271041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[111443,436376,306671,36149,438851,399410,382746,366317,309088,108970,24362,395256,395260,21738,239343,239347,23759,395257,440035,439484,21848,42570,382745,436377,239342,239745,239344,34197,339204],"class_list":["post-2273165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-not","tag-436376","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-animal","tag-animal-welfare","tag-bowl","tag-contests","tag-dogs","tag-explainer","tag-football","tag-merit","tag-merit-prizes-u0026-contests","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-prizes","tag-puppy","tag-puppy-bowl","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-super","tag-super-bowl-60","tag-ttp","tag-ttp-explainer-not-visual","tag-u0026","tag-visual","tag-welfare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/What-time-is-Puppy-Bowl-XXII-How-to-watch-stream.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273166,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273165\/revisions\/2273166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}