| 2017 Hawaii Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 16th Hawaii Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 24, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Aloha Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Honolulu, Hawaii | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Marcus McMaryion (QB, Fresno State) & Steven Dunbar (WR, Houston)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jason Autrey (Sun Belt) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 20,546[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$1,200,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | TV: Chris Cotter, Rod Gilmore, Shelley Smith Radio: Kevin Winter, TBD | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2017, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The sixteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Houston Cougars from the American Athletic Conference against the Fresno State Bulldogs from the Mountain West Conference. The game was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Fresno State defeated Houston, 33–27.[3]