wyoming played central michigan in the potato bowl.
wyoming played central michigan in the potato bowl.
who does wyoming play in the potato bowl?
central michigan
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the 2017 famous idaho potato bowl was a college football bowl game played on friday, december 22, 2017, at albertsons stadium in boise, idaho. the 21st annual famous idaho potato bowl, it was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 fbs football season. the game was sponsored by the idaho potato commission.









































the game featured the wyoming cowboys (7–5) of the mountain west conference and the central michigan chippewas (8–4) of the mid-american conference. the teams had played twice before; in 2000 (wyoming won, 20–10), and in 2002 (central michigan won, 32–20).
2017 famous idaho potato bowl
the stadium was the home to the first ever junior college bowl game, and california's formerly most prestigious junior college bowl game, the kern county shrine club potato bowl. the potato bowl, established in 1948, was a fund raiser for the shriners hospital for burned and crippled children in los angeles. the potato bowl no longer exists due to fees demanded by the state junior college commission on athletics (coa) to be a part of the reformed state jc playoff system (the coa is now known as the california community college athletic association or cccaa). {note: the kern county shrine club now hosts a youth football version of the potato bowl with golden empire youth football to raise money for the shriner's hospital now located in pasadena}. the j.c. potato bowl hence was replaced by the golden empire bowl, which was part of the california j.c. football state playoffs, and was supported and sponsored by local businesses. however, the golden empire bowl folded in 2011. sponsors cited a lack of ticket money for previous bowl games that left them losing money. these sponsors were hoping to break-even with their sponsorship every year as a way to serve their community.
memorial stadium (bakersfield)