# 2017 Dollar General Bowl

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 p.m. 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.

## 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).

## Game summary
### Scoring summary

Scoring summary :
| Quarter | Time | Drive | Drive | Drive | Team | Scoring information | Score | Score |
| Quarter | Time | Plays | Yards | TOP | Team | Scoring information | APP | TOL |
| 1 | 4:06 | 5 | 36 | 1:13 | APP | Jalin Moore 7-yard touchdown run, Chandler Staton kick good | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | 13:51 | 8 | 64 | 3:23 | APP | Jalin Moore 7-yard touchdown run, Chandler Staton kick good | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | 8:09 | 7 | 57 | 3:56 | APP | 29-yard field goal by Chandler Staton | 17 | 0 |
| 2 | 5:52 | 4 | 8 | 2:17 | APP | 23-yard field goal by Chandler Staton | 20 | 0 |
| 3 | 8:14 | 7 | 61 | 3:59 | APP | Jalin Moore 31-yard touchdown run, Chandler Staton kick good | 27 | 0 |
| 4 | 14:54 | 7 | 55 | 2:30 | APP | Malik Williams 3-yard touchdown run, Chandler Staton kick good | 34 | 0 |
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### Statistics

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Mountaineers | 7 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 34 |
| Rockets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | APP | TOL |
| First Downs | 23 | 8 |
| Total offense, plays-yards | 70–458 | 50–146 |
| Rushes-yards (net) | 53–327 | 21–22 |
| Passing yards (net) | 131 | 124 |
| Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 8–17–0 | 16–29–3 |
| Time of Possession | 35:50 | 24:10 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
| Appalachian State | Passing | Taylor Lamb | 8/16, 131 yds |
| Appalachian State | Rushing | Jalin Moore | 22 car, 125 yds, 3 TD |
| Appalachian State | Receiving | Ike Lewis | 4 rec, 67 yds |
| Toledo | Passing | Logan Woodside | 16/29, 124 yds, 3 INT |
| Toledo | Rushing | Terry Swanson | 11 car, 44 yds |
| Toledo | Receiving | Jordan Fisher | 2 rec, 29 yds |