# 2017 Bahamas Bowl

The 2017 Bahamas Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 22, 2017, at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau in the Bahamas. The fourth annual Bahamas Bowl, it was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. It began at 12:30 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.
The game featured the Ohio Bobcats of the Mid-American Conference against the UAB Blazers of Conference USA. Ohio beat UAB by a score of 41–6.

## Teams

The game featured the UAB Blazers against the Ohio Bobcats and was the first-ever meeting between the two schools.

### UAB Blazers

2017 was the Blazers' first season back on the football field following a two-year hiatus (the program had originally been dropped, but massive public outcry led to its reinstatement a year later). After finishing their regular season 8–4, the Blazers accepted their invitation to the Bahamas Bowl.
This was the first bowl game for UAB since the 2004 Hawaii Bowl where they lost to the Hawaii Warriors by a score of 59–40.

### Ohio Bobcats

After finishing their regular season 8–4, the Bobcats accepted their invitation to the Bahamas Bowl.
This was Ohio's eighth bowl appearance in the last nine seasons, and their first appearance in the Bahamas 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 | UAB | OHIO |
| 1 | 8:41 | 11 | 75 | 6:19 | OHIO | DL Knock 2-yard touchdown reception from Nathan Rourke, Louie Zervos kick good | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | 1:20 | 3 | 70 | 1:20 | OHIO | Papi White 56-yard touchdown reception from Nathan Rourke, Louie Zervos kick no good | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | 12:26 | 1 | 74 | 0:15 | OHIO | Dorian Brown 74-yard touchdown run, Louie Zervos kick good | 0 | 20 |
| 2 | 7:28 | 6 | 55 | 1:42 | UAB | 34-yard field goal by Nick Vogel | 3 | 20 |
| 2 | 1:16 | 9 | 63 | 6:12 | OHIO | Dorian Brown 9-yard touchdown run, Louie Zervos kick good | 3 | 27 |
| 3 | 10:46 | 11 | 83 | 4:14 | UAB | 25-yard field goal by Nick Vogel | 6 | 27 |
| 3 | 7:45 | 1 | 25 | 0:09 | OHIO | Dorian Brown 25-yard touchdown run, Louie Zervos kick good | 6 | 34 |
| 3 | 4:05 | 6 | 68 | 3:08 | OHIO | Dorian Brown 14-yard touchdown run, Louie Zervos kick good | 6 | 41 |
| "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | 6 | 41 |

### Statistics

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Blazers | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Bobcats | 13 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 41 |
| Statistics | UAB | Ohio |
| First Downs | 20 | 24 |
| Total offense, yards | 353 | 459 |
| Rushes-yards (net) | 25–99 | 32–249 |
| Passing yards (net) | 254 | 210 |
| Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 24–45–0 | 14–22–0 |
| Time of Possession | 29:34 | 30:26 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
| UAB | Passing | A.J. Erdely | 24/45, 254 yds |
| UAB | Rushing | Spencer Brown | 13 car, 37 yds |
| UAB | Receiving | Ronnie Turner Jr. | 4 rec, 67 yds |
| Ohio | Passing | Nathan Rourke | 12/18, 185 yds, 2 TD |
| Ohio | Rushing | Dorian Brown | 12 car, 152 yds, 4 TD |
| Ohio | Receiving | Papi White | 4 rec, 106 yds, 1 TD |