The 2017 Cure Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 16, 2017, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, with kickoff at 2:30 p.m. local time. The third annual edition of the Cure Bowl, the game was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concludes the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by automotive retailer AutoNation, the game was officially known as the AutoNation Cure Bowl.
The game featured Georgia State Panthers of the Sun Belt Conference and the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers of Conference USA. Georgia State beat Western Kentucky by a score of 27–17.
Teams Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
This was the Hilltoppers' fifth bowl game and their fourth consecutive. They previously won the 2014 Bahamas Bowl, 2015 Miami Beach Bowl and 2016 Boca Raton Bowl. This was their first Cure Bowl appearance.
Georgia State Panthers
This was the Panthers' second bowl and second Cure Bowl appearance in school history. They previously lost to San Jose State in 2015.
Game summary Scoring summary
Statistics
Statistics WKU GSU First downs 17 21 Plays–yards 61–349 71–419 Rushes–yards 21– -2 43–143 Passing yards 351 419 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 26–40–2 20–28–0 Time of possession 24:39 35:21
Team Category Player StatisticsWestern Kentucky Passing Mike White 26/39, 351 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT Rushing Jakairi Moses 7 car, 19 yds Receiving Deon Yelder 5 rec, 112 yds, 2 TDGeorgia State Passing Conner Manning 20/28, 276 yds, 1 TD Rushing Glenn Smith 23 car, 73 yds Receiving Roger Carter 4 rec, 85 yds, 1 TD
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