2017 TaxSlayer Bowl
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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,[2] and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl.
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73rd Gator Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 30, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | EverBank Field | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Mark McLaurin (S, Mississippi State) & Lamar Jackson (QB, Louisville) | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Louisville by 7.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Jerry McGinn (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 41,310[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic | ||||||||||||||||||
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