2017 Frisco 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.

2017 DXL Frisco Bowl
1st Frisco Bowl
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs SMU Mustangs (6–6) (7–5) C-USA The American 51 10 Head coach:  Skip Holtz Head coach:  Sonny Dykes
1 2 3 4 Total Louisiana Tech 21 21 6 3 51 SMU 3 7 0 0 10
Date	December 20, 2017
Season	2017
Stadium	Toyota Stadium
Location	Frisco, Texas
MVP	J'Mar Smith (QB, La. Tech) & Amik Robertson (CB, La. Tech)[1]
Referee	Ted Pitts (Sun Belt)
Attendance	14,419[2]
Payout	US$100,000[3]
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Mike Couzens, John Congemi, Kris Budden
Frisco Bowl  < 2016 (Miami Beach Bowl) 2018 >

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

See also: 2017 SMU Mustangs football team and 2017 American Athletic Conference football season

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

See also: 2017 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team and 2017 Conference USA football season

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

Scoring summary

Scoring summary

Quarter Time Drive Team Scoring information Score Plays Yards TOP La. Tech SMU 1 7:43 9 30 3:24 La. Tech J'Mar Smith 1-yard touchdown run, Jonathan Barnes kick good 7 0 1 6:50 3 2 0:52 La. Tech Interception returned 45 yards for touchdown by Amik Robertson, Jonathan Barnes kick good 14 0 1 3:04 9 47 3:46 SMU 25-yard field goal by Josh Williams 14 3 1 0:45 4 26 2:19 La. Tech Teddy Veal 6-yard touchdown reception from J'Mar Smith, Jonathan Barnes kick good 21 3 2 11:31 3 7 1:03 La. Tech Interception returned 23 yards for touchdown by Darryl Lewis, Jonathan Barnes kick good 28 3 2 5:12 5 82 2:26 La. Tech Teddy Veal 27-yard touchdown reception from J'Mar Smith, Jonathan Barnes kick good 35 3 2 1:33 6 30 3:05 La. Tech Kam McKnight 11-yard touchdown reception from J'Mar Smith, Jonathan Barnes kick good 42 3 2 0:15 9 78 1:18 SMU Trey Quinn 9-yard touchdown reception from Ben Hicks, Josh Williams kick good 42 10 3 10:33 9 65 4:27 La. Tech 28-yard field goal by Jonathan Barnes 45 10 3 3:53 11 41 5:01 La. Tech 43-yard field goal by Jonathan Barnes 48 10 4 8:47 5 37 1:53 La. Tech 41-yard field goal by Jonathan Barnes 51 10 "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. 51 10

Statistics

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	21	21	6	3	51
Mustangs	3	7	0	0	10

Toyota Stadium during the 2017 Frisco Bowl

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