2016 was a remarkable season for the University of Idaho Vandals.
The reasons are many. They won their first bowl game since 2009 in a fashion much more convincing than the final 61-50 score over Colorado State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl would indicate. The game itself was recognized as one of the most entertaining of the bowl season and went down in the record books as the third-highest scoring in bowl history.
They had a Coach of the Year when Paul Petrino earned that distinction for the Sun Belt Conference and a league Newcomer of the Year with defensive tackle Aikeem Coleman's selection in a vote of the conference coaches.