The 2017 Gasparilla Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 21, 2017, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida . The tenth edition of the game previously known as the St. Petersburg Bowl , it featured the Temple Owls of the American Athletic Conference against the FIU Panthers of Conference USA . It began at 8:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN . It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season . The Owls defeated the Panthers by a score of 28–3.
This was the first edition of the bowl to use the Gasparilla naming, a nod to the legend of José Gaspar , a mythical pirate who is the inspiration for Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Festival . Sponsored by lawnmower manufacturing company Bad Boy Mowers, the game was officially known as the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl. [ 3]
Teams The game featured the Temple Owls against the FIU Panthers and was the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
Temple Owls This was Temple's first Gasparilla Bowl and the third consecutive (and seventh overall) bowl game for the Owls, extending the longest bowl streak in school history.
FIU Panthers This was FIU's third bowl game in school history and second Gasparilla Bowl; the Panthers had previously played in the 2011 game (when it was known as the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl), losing to Marshall by a score of 20–10. That game was the most recent bowl that the Panthers had appeared in prior to this Gasparilla Bowl, which snapped their five-year streak of not appearing in a bowl.
Game summary Scoring summary
Scoring summary
Quarter
Time
Drive
Team
Scoring information
Score
Plays
Yards
TOP
TEM
FIU
2
11:45
7
68
3:08
TEM
Frank Nutile 4-yard touchdown run, Aaron Boumerhi kick good
7
0
3
3:12
12
62
4:13
FIU
27-yard field goal by José Borregales
7
3
3
0:28
8
75
2:44
TEM
David Hood 1-yard touchdown run, Aaron Boumerhi kick good
14
3
4
7:26
5
93
1:48
TEM
Isaiah Wright 45-yard touchdown reception from Frank Nutile, Aaron Boumerhi kick good
21
3
4
3:54
5
23
2:09
TEM
Ryquell Armstead 5-yard touchdown run, Aaron Boumerhi kick good
28
3
"TOP" = time of possession . For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football .
28
3
Statistics
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
0
7
7
14
28
Panthers
0
0
3
0
3
Statistics
Temple
FIU
First Downs
20
20
Total offense, yards
400
252
Rushes-yards (net)
41–141
41–83
Passing yards (net)
259
169
Passes, Comp-Att-Int
19–29–0
17–34–2
Time of Possession
29:52
30:08
Team
Category
Player
Statistics
Temple
Passing
Frank Nutile
19/29, 259 yds, 1 TD
Rushing
David Hood
14 car, 76 yds, 1 TD
Receiving
Keith Kirkwood 6 rec, 96 yds
FIU
Passing
Maurice Alexander 16/33, 162 yds, 2 INT
Rushing
Napoleon Maxwell
11 car, 52 yds
Receiving
Austin Maloney
3 rec, 42 yds
Source:[ 4]
References External links
Formerly known as the St. Petersburg / Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
History Games