| 2017 Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 8th Heart of Dallas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 26, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Cotton Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Julian Blackmon (CB, Utah)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jeff Maconaghy (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 20,507 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Roy Philpott, Rene Ingoglia, Kris Budden | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 26, 2017, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The 8th edition of the Heart of Dallas Bowl, it was sponsored by fast food chicken restaurant Zaxby's, and was officially known as the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl.
The game featured the Utah Utes from the Pac-12 Conference against the West Virginia Mountaineers from the Big 12 Conference. Utah defeated West Virginia, 30–14.[1]