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LARAMIE, Wyo. -- In three years time, Craig Bohl has revived a Wyoming football program that last had a winning season in 2011, putting together a team that nearly won the Mountain West Conference title this season and earned a trip to a bowl game.The program that coach Bohl has built here has really just completely changed the culture around here, senior center Chase Roullier said Tuesday. He came into Wyoming with a completely different mindset about this team and its truly just shaped the way this team thinks and how we play.After winning just two games last season, Wyoming (8-5) earned a trip this season to the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego on Dec. 21 against former rival BYU (8-4).Bohl said this years team exceeded the expectations he had entering the season by winning the Mountain West Mountain Division and hosting the conferences championship game, which the Cowboys lost 27-24 to San Diego State on Dec. 3.I felt like we could be a bowl eligible team, but to be out here at War Memorial Stadium and come within three points of winning everything -- that probably exceeded my expectation, he said. But I think it gives us an indication where we can go in the future.One good season isnt what Bohl has in mind for Wyoming, which hasnt had back-to-back winning seasons since the 1990s.What youre looking at doing is developing a program that establishes a winning tradition, for many, many years, back to back, said Bohl, who earlier this month signed a contract extension with Wyoming. I think weve become relevant nationally. People are recognizing the Cowboy brand and that had kind of fallen by the wayside a little bit.Bohl took over a floundering Wyoming program in late 2013 after building a winning program at North Dakota State that included three straight FCS national championships during his tenure.He immediately jettisoned the spread offense that Wyoming had used under former coach Dave Christensen and began building a team based on a more traditional style, featuring an offense that ground out yards with a powerful rushing attack and a defense that emphasizes toughness.We pride ourselves on being a blue-collar team, Roullier said.The change took time and Wyoming took its lumps, winning just six games in Bohls first two seasons.But Wyoming ranks 37th in rushing offense this season, averaging 208.5 yards a game. Junior Brian Hill ranks fourth in the nation in rushing with 1,767 yards.The Cowboys ran the ball 581 times while attempting 346 passes, fueling an offense that scored an average of 37.1 points a game, ranking it 24th in the nation.In the 2013 season, before Bohl took over the program, Wyomings offense attempted 473 passes compared to 449 rushing attempts.The Cowboys defense, which suffered injuries to several starters, especially along the defensive line, still has work to do after giving up an average of 34.8 points a game, 105th in the nation, and 464 yards per game this season.But the defensive unit is young, starting just one senior and one junior next week against BYU.Bohls entire team is young. The Cowboys will lose only five seniors to graduation from the players scheduled to start against BYU.Wyoming athletic director Tom Burman said the Cowboys will become more competitive as their players get more experience.Were a tough out at home right now -- thats step one -- and as you get older players in the program, more seniors, then you become better on the road, Burman said.Other coaches in the Mountain West see whats coming for Wyoming.The real problem for the rest of us is that Wyoming is just going to get better and better and thats a problem for all the rest of us, San Diego State coach Rocky Long said after his team beat Wyoming for the conference championship.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25Replica Soccer Jerseys . The winner Saturday will remain in the elite 10-team field next year. 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Soccer Jerseys 2020 . - Oakland Raiders running back Rashad Jennings was speaking to a group of local high school students earlier this week when the conversation turned to the importance of being prepared when opportunities in life arise. Soccer Jerseys . The Browns coaching search remains incomplete.The Battle at Bristol between Virginia Tech and Tennessee on Saturday (8 p.m. ET, ABC) has us thinking about cars. In this case, were thinking about first cars.Long before the seven-figure contracts and school-issued Escalades, coaches were just like us, driving around in cars that may not have been the prettiest but still hold special memories. Dan Mullen drove his ballet-teacher-mothers ride, which had the license plate UDANCE. Bill Snyder had a 1946 (!) yellow convertible that his mother forced him to give back because he was staying out too late. Kliff Kingsbury got stuck in a lake while trying to, in his words, be really smooth with a female friend.Here are our favorite first-car stories from coaches: Bill Snyder, Kansas State, 1946 yellow Mercury convertibleI was raised by a single-parent mother. My first automobile, my father -- they were separated -- bought a 1946 yellow Mercury convertible. I was 16 years old and I didnt deserve to have an automobile and my mother knew that. She was in chagrin that I did. It kind of affected things. I started staying out a little bit later than I should and driving around and maybe got a little distracted from the way my mother wanted me to be. I didnt have it maybe at best two weeks. My mother called my father and said either you come and get this automobile tomorrow or you will find it in the Missouri River, which was about six blocks away from our house. Sure enough, my father came and got the automobile.? Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech, white Ford F-150 truckKind of a ranch truck my grandfather gave me off of his ranch, not his in-town driving truck, so it was a little rough, but it got around. I got it stuck in a lake, in his lake, one night trying to be really smooth with a female friend and he had to come pull me out at about 2 a.m., so, bad look. Bad night. Dan Mullen, Mississippi State, 1984 Ford MustangMy first car, I turned 16, my mom had an old 84 Ford Mustang with the T-bar roof, the glass roofs you can take off and put in the container in the back.dddddddddddd It was kind of one of those down years for Mustangs. It wasnt one of the really awesome, cool ones. I ended up getting it to have to drive my younger brother and sister around, so you took on an awful lot of responsibilities. But I tell you what: When youre 16, you pop the roof off a car, you did feel pretty cool blaring some music out of a bad stereo in this somewhat not-so-cool car. The only issue was my mom teaches classical ballet and the license plate at the time said UDANCE. So all of my friends would laugh because wed go out in the UDANCE-mobile. Jim McElwain, Florida, 1972 pea-green Ford PintoMy first car, it really comes to ownership, was a 1972 Ford Pinto. Sweet-pea green. And I had a killer eight-track tape deck. Listenin to tunes (Earth, Wind & Fire), rollin down the road, that stick shift hummin ... There aint nothing like a Ford Pinto.? Dabo Swinney, Clemson, black Nissan SentraLooked like a little BMW. It was awesome.Best moment: Getting it back after I had it about a month. It went over a cliff and smashed into a tree. Kicked out of gear and I had to pay on it for like a year, making payments before I got it out of the Bondo shop. Getting it back was like getting a new car all over again.Whose fault was the accident??I guess it was mine. I put it in second gear and got out of the car and it kicked out of gear. I was getting ready to go in my buddys truck and clean gutters and work, and turn around and it was rolling. I got in front of it trying to stop it and it kept rolling and momentum went off the driveway into the woods and T-boned into a tree. It was a devastating moment. I only had it like a month and I didnt have a car prior to that. So I was without a car for another year. I ended up not having insurance on it, so thats why it was in the shop for so long. ' ' '