The 2017 Dollar General Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 23, 2017, at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The 19th edition of the Dollar General Bowl featured the Sun Belt Conference co-champion Appalachian State Mountaineers against the Mid-American Conference champion Toledo Rockets. Kickoff was scheduled for 6:00 PM CST and the game aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2017-18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Dollar General chain of variety stores.
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Teams
The game featured the Appalachian State Mountaineers against the Toledo Rockets. It was the second all-time meeting between the schools; the first was the 2016 Camellia Bowl which saw the Mountaineers defeat the Rockets by a score of 31-28.
Appalachian State Mountaineers
This was the Mountaineers' first Dollar General Bowl.
Toledo Rockets
This was the Rockets' third Dollar General Bowl; their record in prior games was 2-0, having previously defeated the UTEP Miners 45-13 in the 2005 game (when it was known as the GMAC Bowl) and having subsequently defeated the Arkansas State Red Wolves 63-44 in the January 2015 game (when it was known as the GoDaddy Bowl).
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Game summary
Scoring summary
Statistics
References
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