CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by DXL, a retailer of men's big and tall apparel, the game was officially known as the DXL Frisco Bowl.[4]
The Bulldogs decisively beat the Mustangs by a score of 51–10.
Teams
The game featured the SMU Mustangs against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. It was the fifth all-time meeting between the schools, with Louisiana Tech having led the series 3–1. The Mustangs and Bulldogs played together in the Western Athletic Conference from 2001 until 2004, when SMU joined Conference USA. Coincidentally, Conference USA is the conference that Louisiana Tech would join in the same season that SMU joined The American.[5]
This was the tenth bowl game in school history for Louisiana Tech, and their fourth consecutive (all wins). It was the Bulldogs' third bowl game to be played in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
