2017 Birmingham Bowl

2017 Birmingham Bowl
12th Birmingham Bowl
Texas Tech Red Raiders South Florida Bulls
(6–6) (9–2)
Big 12 The American
34 38
Head coach: 
Kliff Kingsbury		 Head coach: 
Charlie Strong
APCoaches
2324
1234 Total
Texas Tech 1001410 34
South Florida 37721 38
DateDecember 23, 2017
Season2017
StadiumLegion Field
LocationBirmingham, Alabama
MVPQuinton Flowers
RefereeRon Hudson (MAC)
Attendance28,623[1]
PayoutUS$2,025,000[2]
United States TV coverage
NetworkESPN
AnnouncersTom Hart, Gene Chizik, Lauren Sisler
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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.[3]

  1. ^ "2017 Bowl Game Attendance". sportshoop.la. December 25, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  2. ^ Bowl payout
  3. ^ "University of South Florida and Texas Tech Selected to Play in the 2017 Birmingham Bowl" (PDF). BirminghamBowl.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.