The 2017 Liberty Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 30, 2017, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 59th edition of the Liberty Bowl featured the Iowa State Cyclones of the Big 12 Conference against the Memphis Tigers of the American Athletic Conference. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by automobile parts and accessories store AutoZone, it was officially known as the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
This was the last event that ESPN Play-by-Play announcer, Mike Patrick, called.
Teams The game featured conference tie-ins from the Southeastern Conference and the Big 12 Conference. However, the SEC did not have enough teams to fill its contractual obligations, so the bowl invited the Memphis Tigers of the American Athletic Conference, the team that occupies the Liberty Bowl during the regular season, thus making the contest—which was the Tigers' first appearance in this bowl—a Memphis home game. This is the third Liberty Bowl for Iowa State, having previously played in the 1972 and 2012 editions of the game.
Iowa State Cyclones
Memphis Tigers
Game summary Scoring summary
Statistics
Statistics ISU MEM First downs 22 17 Plays–yards 80-346 59-339 Rushes–yards 42-32 26-53 Passing yards 314 286 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 24-38-0 21-33-0 Time of possession 37:49 22:11
Team Category Player StatisticsISU Passing Kyle Kempt 24/38, 314 yds Rushing David Montgomery 24 car, 52 yds Receiving Allen Lazard 10 rec, 142 yds, 1 TDMEM Passing Riley Ferguson 21/33, 286 yds Rushing Patrick Taylor Jr. 17 car, 68 yds Receiving Phil Mayhue 5 rec, 85 yds, 1 TD
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