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 made a pair of bowl trips to Albuquerque for the Gildan New Mexico Bowl in its history.

Unfortunately, both trips ended in defeat. In 2007, the Pack was a visitor to Albuquerque in more ways than one as it faced off against the home school New Mexico Lobos and suffered a rare shutout loss.In 2012 one of the wildest and high scoring bowl games ever saw the Pack drop a heart-breaker to Arizona, 49-48.
 
This year's Gildan New Mexico Bowl will kick-off the 2015 bowl season on Saturday, Dec. 15. Kickoff from University Stadium on the University of New Mexico campus will be at 11 a.m. PT.
 
The matchup pits a team from the Mountain West against a team from Conference USA.
 
More information on the game is available at GildanNewMexicoBowl.com
 
Here's the recap from the Pack's two appearances in the New Mexico Bowl:
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Matt Scott threw two short touchdown passes in the final 46 seconds and college football's postseason started with a wild one when Arizona rallied past Nevada 49-48 Saturday in the New Mexico Bowl.
 
Overcoming a slow start and three big turnovers, Arizona (8-5) recovered an onside kick in the last minute, setting up Scott's 2-yard toss to Tyler Slavin with 19 seconds left for the winning score.
 
Arizona trailed 21-0 in the first quarter and was down 45-28 entering the final period. Scott threw for 382 yards and marched his team back into the game despite two earlier interceptions.
 
The nation's rushing leader, Ka'Deem Carey, gained 172 yards for the Wildcats and but fell short of becoming only the 16th running back in NCAA history to reach 2,000 yards in a season.
 
The teams combined for 1,237 total yards, the second most of any bowl game in history at the time.
 
Cody Fajardo threw for three touchdowns and ran for another score to lead the Wolf Pack (7-6). He had 256 yards passing and 140 yards rushing and controlled most of the game, completing 22 of 32 throws.
 
Stefphon Jefferson, the nation's second-leading rusher, ran for 180 yards for Nevada and also seemed unstoppable as the Wolf Pack took a big lead and held on to it for most of the game.
 
But after forcing Nevada to kick a field goal with 1:48 left that made it 48-35, Scott drove the Wildcats 75 yards. Arizona then recovered an onside kick and Scott moved Arizona into the end zone after three plays and 51 yards.
 
Rich Rodriguez, in his first season as Arizona head coach, is now 3-5 in bowl game appearances.
 
With 180 yards on 34 carries, Jefferson set the Nevada and Mountain West record for most rushing yards in a single season. He passed Chance Kretschmer (2001) at Nevada and Ronnie Hillman (SDSU, 2011) for the Mountain West mark. Jefferson finished the year with 1,883 yards on the ground and will likely finish second in the nation behind Ka'Deem Carey of Arizona.
 
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.  – Paul Baker ran for 167 yards in his first start, and Donovan Porterie threw for career-high 354 yards and two touchdowns to help New Mexico beat Nevada 23-0 in the New Mexico Bowl.
 
The Lobos (9-4) ended a 46-year skid without a postseason victory and gave 10th-year coach Rocky Long his first bowl win in five tries.
 
New Mexico's defense also delivered just the second shutout loss for Nevada's Hall of Fame coach, Chris Ault.
 
The Wolf Pack (6-7) hadn't gone scoreless since losing 10-0 to Weber State on Sept. 27, 1980, a span of 329 games - the longest current streak in college football and the second longest in history.
 
It was New Mexico's first bowl victory since beating Western Michigan 28-12 in the 1961 Aviation Bowl at Dayton, Ohio. The Lobos also notched a nine-win season for just the fourth time in school history. Much of the credit goes to New Mexico's defenders, who pestered redshirt freshman quarterback Colin Kaepernick all afternoon.
 
The Wolf Pack averaged 36.2 points and 488.9 yards during the season. Nevada logged 23 scoring plays that covered at least 25 yards - second only to Oklahoma's 25 big-play TDs.
 
Nevada had 210 total yards, with only 73 yards rushing. On a chilly day, with the temperature at kickoff 34 degrees, Kaepernick finished 13-of-31 for 137 yards. He had 10 carries for 40 yards rushing.