Английская Википедия:2017 Birmingham Bowl

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The 2017 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 23, 2017, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The twelfth edition of the Birmingham Bowl featured the Texas Tech Red Raiders of the Big 12 Conference against the South Florida Bulls of the American Athletic Conference. Kickoff was scheduled for 11:00 a.m. CST and the game aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season.

Teams

The game featured the Texas Tech Red Raiders against the South Florida Bulls and was the first-ever meeting between the two schools.

Texas Tech Red Raiders

This was the Red Raiders' first Birmingham Bowl.

South Florida Bulls

South Florida entered the game as the defending Birmingham Bowl champion, their 2016 team having defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks, 46–39 in overtime. This was the Bulls' third Birmingham Bowl; in addition to their 2016 victory, the 2006 Bulls defeated the East Carolina Pirates, 24–7 in the inaugural game when it was known as the PapaJohns.com Bowl.

Game summary

Statistics

Statistics	style="Шаблон:NCAA color cell"|TTU	style="Шаблон:NCAA color cell"|USF
First Downs	28	27
Total offense, plays-yards	94–549	82–561
Rushes-yards (net)	35–133	48–250
Passing yards (net)	416	311
Passes, Comp-Att-Int	32–59–2	17–34–0
Time of Possession	35:21	24:39

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
rowspan=3 style="Шаблон:NCAA color cell; text-align:center"| Texas Tech	Passing	Nic Shimonek	32/59, 416 yds, 3 TD, 2 INT
Rushing	Justin Stockton	18 car, 103 yds
Receiving	Keke Coutee	11 rec, 187 yds, 1 TD
rowspan=3 style="Шаблон:NCAA color cell; text-align:center"| South Florida	Passing	Quinton Flowers	17/34, 311 yds, 4 TD
Rushing	Quinton Flowers	14 car, 106 yds, 1 TD
Receiving	Marquez Valdes-Scantling	3 rec, 133 yds, 1 TD