| 2017 Bahamas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 4th Bahamas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 22, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Thomas Robinson Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Nassau, Bahamas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Dorian Brown (RB, Ohio) & Javon Hagan (FS, Ohio) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Charles Lamertina (American) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 13,585[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$200,000[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN RedVoice, LLC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Steve Levy, Desmond Howard, Laura Rutledge | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Bahamas Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 22, 2017, at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau in the Bahamas. The fourth annual Bahamas Bowl, it was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. It began at 12:30 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.
The game featured the Ohio Bobcats of the Mid-American Conference against the UAB Blazers of Conference USA.[3] Ohio beat UAB by a score of 41–6.