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The BYU Cougars take on the Wyoming Cowboys at the 2016 Poinsettia Bowl. kicks into full swing.

Wednesday night in , the BYU Cougars and Wyoming Cowboys meet in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. Wyoming will have to rely on its dynamic passing attack — which includes Tanner Gentry who led the Mountain West in touchdown catches with 12 on the season — while BYU will be looking to rely on its strong rushing defense and hope to

lead the Cougars to victory.

BYU vs. Wyoming is the only of the day. Date: Wednesday, Dec. 21 Start Time: 9:00 p.m. ET Location: San Diego, Calif. Venue: Qualcomm Stadium TV Info: ESPN The Cougars’ four losses this season have all been within three points or less, meaning that BYU needs to get out in front. BYU has been pretty steady this season despite losing quarterback to injury. Tanner Mangrum has been solid as a replacement, and Wyoming’s defense has enough holes in it to provide Mangrum opportunities to get through to score. Senior works well with both Hill and Mangrum and has racked up 1165 yards this season. The BYU offense has been solid all season, and their bowl experience gives them a big advantage over the Cowboys.

Wyoming has been quite the force of nature this season, proving that when given the opportunity, they can rally back from behind and be the victorious underdogs. Brian Hill has been dominant this season, already tallying another 1000+ yard season for the second year in a row. That puts him fourth in the nation for rushing yards with 1767. If given the right opportunities, Hill might be able to push through BYU’s staunch defense and get the Cowboys on the board.

The Wyoming Cowboys finished the regular season 8-5 overall and 6-2 in the Mountain Division of the . The BYU Cougars are ranked first among Football Bowl Subdivision Independents, finishing 8-4 on the year.

This will be Wyoming’s 14th bowl appearance and the team’s first appearance in the Poinsettia Bowl. It will be BYU’s 12th consecutive postseason trip and second appearance in the Poinsettia Bowl. The Poinsettia Bowl provides the old WAC rivals the 78th opportunity to face one another, a rivalry that dates to 1922.

BYU sophomore quarterback Tanner Mangum sat most of 2016 despite setting several freshman records in 2015 after Taysom Hill suffered a season-ending foot injury. Hill won the job back as a fifth-year senior, but will miss the final game of his career due to an elbow injury. Mangum will start the Poinsettia Bowl and take over what should be his team for the foreseeable future.

Wyoming junior running back Brian Hill ranks fourth in the nation in rushing. Hill, the Cowboys’ all-time career rushing leader, has 1,767 yards on the ground in 2016, breaking his own school single-season mark that he set in 2015 (1,631). He also has 34 career rushing touchdowns, which is tied with Eddie Talboom (1948-50) for the most in school history. lso, head over here for the fully updated bowl season calendar as it fills in, from the New Orleans Bowl through the Rose Bowl. We’ll also add picks, scores, and more to that calendar over time.

This year’s Poinsettia Bowl is set to be played in San Diego on Dec. 21, making it the only major football game on the Wednesday before Christmas.

The Poinsettia’s quietly been around for a while, having started up as a bowl game in 2005. It’s featured a few really competitive games. The best might have been 2008’s, when an -led TCU beat Boise State 17-16 in a battle of two great teams. Last year’s game was the most lopsided in Poinsettia Bowl history, with San Diego State putting a 48-point hurting on Northern Illinois.

The game is sponsored by the San Diego County Credit Union, as it’s been since its inception. That’s kind of interesting, given that bowl affiliations in this era change practically as often as organizers get dressed. This game’s stayed remarkably the same, even residing in the same stadium for all its time as an NCAA event.

Interested in how this has worked and will work this year?

Here’s everything to know about the Poinsettia Bowl, which returns this year for a 12th game.

Date and time: Dec. 21, 9 p.m. ET TV channel: ESPN Location: San Diego, Calif. Stadium: Qualcomm Stadium Live Stream: Click to watch College Bowl Games 2016 Last year’s score: Boise State 55, Northern Illinois 7 Last year’s attendance: 21,501 Teams with the most all-time appearances: Navy has appeared four times.

Teams with the most all-time wins: TCU has won three times.

BYU (8-4, independent)

The Cougars had an interesting first year under head . They played a ton of close games, and they lost three of them in a row between Weeks 2 and 4. The losing streak that brought BYU from 1-0 to 1-3 in the first month included three losses of a combined seven points. That was sort of cruel, but at least the Cougars got whisker-thin wins later on against Toledo and Mississippi State. (They also lost a tight one against Boise State, because that’s how this year went.)

BYU’s a hard team to get a read on. The Cougars were pretty close to going 11-1, but they were also pretty close to going 6-6. So at the end of the day, an 8-4 record sounds just about right, and the Cougars finished somewhere close to where they should’ve. Now they’re in the Poinsettia Bowl for a second time, having last appeared there in 2012, when they beat San Diego State, 23-6.

The BYU offense thrives on the ground, with running back Jamal Williams leading the way. Quarterback Taysom Hill has had an uneven year. Kai Nacua had five interceptions during the regular season, giving the Cougars a top ballhawk.

Wyoming (8-5, Mountain West)

The Cowboys have quietly become one of ’s best stories. They went 6-18 the last two years and entered 2016 without a bowl bid since 2011, and with just three since 1993. Then they turned it on and became one of the best, most fun teams in the Group of 5 conferences. Craig Bohl’s rebuild accelerated really, really quickly. It fell short of producing a Mountain West title this year, but just barely.

Wyoming had some awesome moments along the way. There was a thrilling home win against then- unbeaten Boise State, then another against San Diego State, giving them victories against the two other best teams in the Mountain West. That’s not so typical in Laramie.

Wyoming’s kind of a weird team, from a purely statistical perspective. The offense is great, and the defense is genuinely terrible. So the Pokes have to win shootouts, and they’ve done exactly that. (They’ve even lost them, like when UNLV won an outrageous 69-66 decision against them in November.) The Pokes are fun, and they’re certainly oddballs, and that makes them a perfect bowl team. We’ll enjoy getting the chance to watch them play again.