The 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on Thursday, December 22, at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The twentieth annual edition of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Idaho Potato Commission, the game is officially known as the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

The game normally features conference tie-ins from the Mountain West Conference (MW) and the Mid-American Conference. However, the committee decided to invite in-state Idaho of the Sun Belt Conference instead of a MAC team from the Midwest. Idaho had previously won this bowl twice, in 1998 and 2009. MW representative Colorado State played in this bowl for the first time.

This was the eighth meeting between the schools, with Colorado State leading the all-time series 4–3. The most recent meeting was six years earlier in 2010 on September 25; the Rams won in Fort Collins with a game-ending field goal, 36–34. Idaho won the year before in Moscow, also by two points.

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