College football game
2017 Hawaii Bowl
1 2 3 4
Total
Fresno State
0 13 7 13
33
Houston
7 3 10 7
27
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$ 1,200,000Network 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]
Teams
Fresno State entered the game with a 9–4 overall record (7–2 in conference), while Houston entered the game with an overall record of 7–4 (5–3 in conference). This was the first meeting between the schools.[4]
Fresno State Bulldogs
Houston Cougars