The 2017 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Thundering Herd played their home games at the Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia, and competed in the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by eighth-year head coach Doc Holliday. They finished the season 8–5, 4–4 in C-USA play to finish in a three-way tie for third place in the East Division. They were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they defeated Colorado State.
Schedule Marshall announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Thundering Herd would host CUSA foes FIU, Old Dominion, Southern Miss, and Western Kentucky (WKU), and would travel to Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, Middle Tennessee, and UTSA.
The Thundering Herd would host two of the four non-conference opponents, Kent State and Miami of Ohio, both from the Mid-American Conference and traveled to Cincinnati of the American Athletic Conference and NC State of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Game summaries
Miami (OH)
At NC State
Kent State
At Cincinnati
At Charlotte
Old Dominion
At Middle Tennessee
FIU
At Florida Atlantic
Western Kentucky
At UTSA
Southern Miss
Colorado State–Gildan New Mexico Bowl
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