Cow­boys to play Fresno State in New Mex­ico Bowl

Mon­day after­noon, the Cow­boys were invited to play Fresno State in the 4^th annual New Mex­ico Bowl in Albu­querque on Decem­ber 19^th.

Wyoming will be mak­ing its first appear­ance in a bowl game since 2004 when the Pokes upset the UCLA Bru­ins in Las Vegas. The Cow­boys 6–6 (4−4) will face off against the Fresno State Bull­dogs 8–4 (6−2) for Wyoming’s twelfth appear­ance in a bowl game and first appear­ance in the New Mex­ico Bowl.

Dur­ing the accep­tance of the invi­ta­tion Coach Dave Chris­tensen said he was proud of how far his team had come this year and that it was largely due to senior lead­er­ship and the hard work of his coach­ing staff. Coach Chris­tensen briefly reflected on the day that he accepted Wyoming’s invi­ta­tion to become head coach for the Cowboys.

“I made a cou­ple procla­ma­tions at that time and they weren’t promises about num­bers of wins… But we set an expec­ta­tion level. We set that expec­ta­tion with our foot­ball team and set an expec­ta­tion level with our fan-base… That was expect­ing to win, expect­ing to com­pete for con­fer­ence cham­pi­onships, and expect­ing to play in bowl games. In a short year we’ve been able to reach at least two of those expec­ta­tions by win­ning and going to a bowl game. And we don’t plan on stop­ping at that.” … Con­tinue Reading