The Fiesta Bowl has a tradition where orangutans at the Phoenix Zoo pick the winner of the annual game, but this year’s pick is a controversial one.
This year, Jiwa, a 4-year-old orangutan, was set to make his first pick after his father Mike did it for years. Zookeepers say Mike has around a 50 percent success rating.
But Jiwa seemed to have stage fright for his first time. He took a quick look at the items meant to represent each team set out for him, grabbed the paper plate on LSU’s “fan,” which was held together with peanut butter, and retreated back into his hiding spot. 
The zookeepers affirmed that Jiwa grabbing the plate was not sufficient interaction to declare LSU the winner. 
Because of Jiwa’s struggle, his father Mike, a 30-year old orangutan, made the choice for another year, but it was a controversial one (4:55). Mike grabbed both items, but grabbed UCF’s first before ripping apart LSU’s item.
The zookeepers believed that Mike declared UCF the winner of the 2019 Fiesta Bowl.