| Game Name: | Frisco Bowl |
| Subheader: | 1st Frisco Bowl |
| Title Sponsor: | DXL |
| Date Game Played: | December 20 |
| Year Game Played: | 2017 |
| Football Season: | 2017 |
| Stadium: | Toyota Stadium |
| City: | Frisco, Texas |
| Visitor School: | Louisiana Tech University |
| Visitor Name Short: | Louisiana Tech |
| Visitor Nickname: | Bulldogs |
| Visitor Record: | 6–6 |
| Visitor Conference: | C-USA |
| Visitor Coach: | Skip Holtz |
| Visitor 1Q: | 21 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 21 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 6 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 3 |
| Home School: | Southern Methodist University |
| Home Name Short: | SMU |
| Home Nickname: | Mustangs |
| Home Record: | 7–5 |
| Home Conference: | The American |
| Home Coach: | Sonny Dykes |
| Home 1Q: | 3 |
| Home 2Q: | 7 |
| Home 3Q: | 0 |
| Home 4Q: | 0 |
| Mvp: | J'Mar Smith (QB, La. Tech) & Amik Robertson (CB, La. Tech)[1] |
| Referee: | Ted Pitts (Sun Belt) |
| Attendance: | 14,419[2] |
| Payout: | 100,000[3] |
| Us Network: | ESPN |
| Us Announcers: | Mike Couzens, John Congemi, Kris Budden |
| Different Previous: | 2016 (Miami Beach Bowl) |
The 2017 Frisco Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 20, 2017, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, United States. The first annual Frisco Bowl, it featured the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs of Conference USA and the SMU Mustangs of the American Athletic Conference. It began at 7:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by DXL, a retailer of men's big and tall apparel, the game was officially known as the DXL Frisco Bowl.[4] The Bulldogs decisively beat the Mustangs by a score of 51–10.
The game featured the SMU Mustangs against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. It was the fifth all-time meeting between the schools, with Louisiana Tech having led the series 3–1. The Mustangs and Bulldogs played together in the Western Athletic Conference from 2001 until 2004, when SMU joined Conference USA. Coincidentally, Conference USA is the conference that Louisiana Tech would join in the same season that SMU joined The American.[5]
See also: 2017 SMU Mustangs football team and 2017 American Athletic Conference football season.
This was the sixteenth bowl game in school history for SMU, and the Mustangs' seventh to be played in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
See also: 2017 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team and 2017 Conference USA football season.
This was the tenth bowl game in school history for Louisiana Tech, and their fourth consecutive (all wins). It was the Bulldogs' third bowl game to be played in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
| Statistics | La. Tech | SMU |
|---|---|---|
| First Downs | 18 | 20 |
| Total offense, yards | 357 | 294 |
| Rushes-yards (net) | 38–141 | 41–167 |
| Passing yards (net) | 216 | 127 |
| Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 16–27–0 | 19–34–3 |
| Time of Possession | 30:21 | 29:39 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana Tech | Passing | J'Mar Smith | 15/23, 216 yds, 3 TD |
| Rushing | 20 car, 110 yds | ||
| Receiving | Teddy Veal | 5 rec, 118 yds, 2 TD | |
| SMU | Passing | Ben Hicks | 19/34, 127 yds, 1 TD, 3 INT |
| Rushing | 12 car, 56 yds | ||
| Receiving | 6 rec, 68 yds |