| Game name | Frisco Bowl |
|---|---|
| Subheader | 1st Frisco Bowl |
| Title sponsor | DXL |
| Date game played | December 20 |
| Year game played | 2017 |
| Football season | 2017 |
| Stadium | Toyota Stadium |
| City | Frisco, Texas |
| Visitor school | Louisiana Tech University |
| Visitor name short | Louisiana Tech |
| Visitor nickname | Bulldogs |
| Visitor record | 6–6 |
| Visitor conference | C-USA |
| Visitor coach | Skip Holtz |
| Visitor 1q | 21 |
| Visitor 2q | 21 |
| Visitor 3q | 6 |
| Visitor 4q | 3 |
| Home school | Southern Methodist University |
| Home name short | SMU |
| Home nickname | Mustangs |
| Home record | 7–5 |
| Home conference | The American |
| Home coach | Sonny Dykes |
| Home 1q | 3 |
| Home 2q | 7 |
| Home 3q | 0 |
| Home 4q | 0 |
| Mvp | J'Mar Smith (QB, La. Tech) & Amik Robertson (CB, La. Tech)[1] |
| Referee | Ted Pitts (Sun Belt) |
| Attendance | 14,419[2] |
| Payout | 100,000[3] |
| Us network | ESPN |
| Us announcers | Mike Couzens, John Congemi, Kris Budden |
| Different previous | 2016 (Miami Beach Bowl) |
The 2017 Frisco Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 20, 2017, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, United States. The first annual Frisco Bowl, it featured the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs of Conference USA and the SMU Mustangs of the American Athletic Conference. It began at 7:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by DXL, a retailer of men's big and tall apparel, the game was officially known as the DXL Frisco Bowl.[4] The Bulldogs decisively beat the Mustangs by a score of 51–10.
Teams
The game featured the SMU Mustangs against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. It was the fifth all-time meeting between the schools, with Louisiana Tech having led the series 3–1. The Mustangs and Bulldogs played together in the Western Athletic Conference from 2001 until 2004, when SMU joined Conference USA. Coincidentally, Conference USA is the conference that Louisiana Tech would join in the same season that SMU joined The American.[5]
SMU Mustangs
This was the sixteenth bowl game in school history for SMU, and the Mustangs' seventh to be played in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
This was the tenth bowl game in school history for Louisiana Tech, and their fourth consecutive (all wins). It was the Bulldogs' third bowl game to be played in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Game summary
Statistics
| Statistics | La. Tech | SMU |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 18 | 20 |
| Total offense, yards | 357 | 294 |
| Rushes-yards (net) | 38–141 | 41–167 |
| Passing yards (net) | 216 | 127 |
| Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 16–27–0 | 19–34–3 |
| Time of Possession | 30:21 | 29:39 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana Tech | Passing | J'Mar Smith | 15/23, 216 yds, 3 TD |
| Rushing | Boston Scott | 20 car, 110 yds | |
| Receiving | Teddy Veal | 5 rec, 118 yds, 2 TD | |
| SMU | Passing | Ben Hicks | 19/34, 127 yds, 1 TD, 3 INT |
| Rushing | Xavier Jones | 12 car, 56 yds | |
| Receiving | Courtland Sutton | 6 rec, 68 yds |
References
- ^ "Smith, Robertson named MVPS in LA Tech's Frisco bowl victory - ESPN Video". 28 December 2017. Archived December 27, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^ "2017-18 bowl game attendance and schedule". Archived January 2, 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ "Bowl payout". Archived November 10, 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ "SMU and Louisiana Tech Selected to Play in Inaugural 2017 DXL Frisco Bowl". DXLFriscoBowl.com. 3 December 2017. Archived from the original on December 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- ^ "SMU Mustangs vs. Louisiana Tech Bulldogs series history". Archived December 4, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
Further reading
- "2017 DXL Frisco Bowl Game Notes". dxlfriscobowl.com. December 21, 2017. Retrieved December 20, 2018.