Note: As the Nevada football awaits its selection for a bowl game in 2018, we are taking a look back this week at the Wolf Pack's history of bowl game appearances.

The Nevada football team has twice played in a bowl game in Boise, Idaho.

The first appearance came in 2006 when Nevada took on Miami from the Atlantic Coast Conference in what was then known as the MPC Computers Bowl.  It was a thriller as the Pack was driving for a potential game-winning school but the comeback effort came up just short in a 21-20 loss.

Two years later, Nevada returns to the blue turf to take on Maryland in the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl. A frigid evening in Boise did not work out in Nevada's favor as the Pack battled but came up just short, 42-35 to the Terps.

Know known as the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the game will be played this year on Dec. 21 with a 1 p.m. kickoff from Albertson's Stadium on the Boise State campus. The game will be televised by ESPN.

The matchup pits a team from the Mountain West against a team from the Mid-American Conference

More information on the game is available at their website.

Here's the recaps from the Pack's two appearances in what is now the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl:
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Da'Rel Scott got out of the doghouse in time to run over Nevada.
Benched for 2 1/2 quarters for breaking curfew, Scott ran for 174 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdowns in 14 carries and Maryland held off the Wolf Pack 42-35 in the Humanitarian Bowl on Tuesday.
Scott's 49-yard touchdown sprint early in the fourth quarter broke a 28-all tie and his 2-yard TD gallop put the Terps up 14 points.
Colin Kaepernick kept Nevada (7-6) close, finishing 24-for-47 for a bowl-record 370 yards and three touchdowns.
Kaepernick and Nevada capitalized on a pair of mistakes by Maryland quarterback Chris Turner to pull even. Nevada's Jonathon Amaya intercepted Turner near midfield midway through the third quarter and returned it to the Maryland 22. Three plays later, Kaepernick hit Vai Taua behind the Maryland secondary for a 17-yard TD score to get the Wolf Pack to 28-21.
Turner was hit as he attempted to throw a screen at the Nevada 20. The throw went backward and Nate Agaiava recovered for the Wolf Pack. Kaepernick needed only five plays and less than two minutes to draw even, hitting Marko Mitchell on a
21-yard TD.
The tie lasted only a couple of minutes. Turner hit Torrey Scott for 26 yards on third down, and two plays later Scott ran for his seventh touchdown of the season.
Kaepernick added a 15-yard touchdown run with 2:19 left, but Maryland recovered the ensuing onside kick and ran out the clock.
  BOISE, Idaho – Kirby Freeman threw for 272 yards and two long touchdowns, ran for another score and the Hurricanes' defense came through in the final moments to help Miami beat Nevada 21-20 in the MPC Computers Bowl, Larry Coker's final game at Miami.
Nevada had a first down at the Miami 36 in the final minute, but a diving interception by the Hurricanes' Chavez Grant with 18 seconds left sealed the win and got Coker the perfect sendoff that his players wanted.
Jeff Rowe threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Marko Mitchell, and Brett Jaekle kicked four field goals for Nevada, including 44- and 40-yarders in the fourth quarter to get Nevada within a point. But the Wolf Pack got no closer, thanks largely to Grant's heroics at the end. Rowe was 20-of-31 for 192 yards for Nevada, which was making its first back-to-back bowl appearances since 1995-96, and Robert Hubbard had 60 yards on 20 carries.
Down by seven entering the final quarter against the fifth-ranked defense in the country, Nevada nearly pulled off a comeback -- and may have been denied a great scoring opportunity by a call that didn't go its way.
Facing a third-and-10 from the Miami 28, Rowe dropped back to throw to Anthony Pudewell inside the Miami 10. Pudewell was hit by Kenny Phillips as he tried to catch the ball, which bounced in the air. Replays appeared to show that Pudewell trapped the ball between his knees before it hit the turf, but officials ruled it incomplete and the Wolf Pack settled for a field goal.