2017 TaxSlayer Bowl
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 2017 [Louisville Cardinals football team|Louisville Cardinals] of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the 2017 [Mississippi State Bulldogs football team|Mississippi State Bulldogs] of the Southeastern Conference. It was one of the 2017–18 [NCAA football bowl games|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, and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl.
Game summary
Statistics
| Statistics | UL | MSST |
| First downs | 20 | 23 |
| Plays–yards | 70–358 | 75–404 |
| Rushes–yards | 39–187 | 55–287 |
| Passing yards | 171 | 127 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 13–31–4 | 11–20–1 |
| Time of possession | 30:21 | 29:39 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
| UL | Passing | Lamar Jackson | 13/31, 171 yds, 2 TD, 4 INT |
| UL | Rushing | Lamar Jackson | 24 car, 158 yds, 1 TD |
| UL | Receiving | Jaylen Smith | 7 rec, 107 yds, 1 TD |
| MSST | Passing | Keytaon Thompson | 11/20, 127 yds, 1 INT |
| MSST | Rushing | Keytaon Thompson | 27 car, 147 yds, 3 TD |
| MSST | Receiving | Jesse Jackson | 3 rec, 38 yds |