2017 TaxSlayer Bowl

2017 TaxSlayer Bowl
2017 TaxSlayer Bowl
73rd Gator Bowl
Louisville Cardinals	Mississippi State Bulldogs
(8–4)	(8–4)
ACC	SEC
27	31
Head coach: ; Bobby Petrino	Head coach: ; Greg Knox; (interim)
Date	December 30, 2017
Season	2017
Stadium	EverBank Field
Location	Jacksonville, Florida
MVP	Mark McLaurin (S, Mississippi State) & Lamar Jackson (QB, Louisville)
Favorite	Louisville by 7.5
Referee	Jerry McGinn (Big Ten)
Attendance	41,310
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic
TaxSlayer Bowl
< 2016 (Dec.)	2018 >

The 2017 TaxSlayer Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 31, 2017, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. The 73rd edition of the Gator Bowl featured the Louisville Cardinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the Mississippi State Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game's naming rights sponsor was tax preparation software company TaxSlayer,^[2] and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl.