The 2017 TaxSlayer Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 31, 2017, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. The 73rd edition of the Gator Bowl featured the Louisville Cardinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the Mississippi State Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game's naming rights sponsor was tax preparation software company TaxSlayer, and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl.
Teams
Louisville
Mississippi State
Game summary Scoring summary
Statistics
Statistics UL MSST First downs 20 23 Plays–yards 70–358 75–404 Rushes–yards 39–187 55–287 Passing yards 171 127 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 13–31–4 11–20–1 Time of possession 30:21 29:39
Team Category Player StatisticsUL Passing Lamar Jackson 13/31, 171 yds, 2 TD, 4 INT Rushing Lamar Jackson 24 car, 158 yds, 1 TD Receiving Jaylen Smith 7 rec, 107 yds, 1 TDMSST Passing Keytaon Thompson 11/20, 127 yds, 1 INT Rushing Keytaon Thompson 27 car, 147 yds, 3 TD Receiving Jesse Jackson 3 rec, 38 yds
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