| 2017 AutoNation Cure Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 3rd Cure bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 16, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Camping World Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Georgia State QB Conner Manning[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Girl Scouts Citrus Singers[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Mike Roche (American) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 19,585[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBSSN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Carter Blackburn, Aaron Taylor and Jenny Dell | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Cure Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 16, 2017, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, with kickoff at 2:30 p.m. local time.[4] The third annual edition of the Cure Bowl, the game was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concludes the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by automotive retailer AutoNation, the game was officially known as the AutoNation Cure Bowl.
The game featured Georgia State Panthers of the Sun Belt Conference and the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers of Conference USA. Georgia State beat Western Kentucky by a score of 27–17.