The 2017 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2017, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The sixteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Houston Cougars from the American Athletic Conference against the Fresno State Bulldogs from the Mountain West Conference. The game was one of the 2017âÂÂ18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Fresno State defeated Houston, 33âÂÂ27.
Fresno State entered the game with a 9âÂÂ4 overall record (7âÂÂ2 in conference), while Houston entered the game with an overall record of 7âÂÂ4 (5âÂÂ3 in conference). This was the first meeting between the schools.