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| Date | January 1, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Mercedes-Benz Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | McKenzie Milton (QB, UCF) & Shaquem Griffin (LB, UCF) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Auburn by 10.5[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Brandon Cruse (Big XII) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 71,109[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$6,000,000 per team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN and ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Dave Flemming, Brock Huard, and Allison Williams (ESPN) Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers and Cole Cubelic (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2018 Peach Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2018, between the UCF Knights and the Auburn Tigers.[4] It was the 50th edition of the Peach Bowl, and the first Peach Bowl to be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, after spending the previous 25 editions in the now demolished Georgia Dome. The 50th Peach Bowl was one of the College Football Playoff New Year's Six bowl games,[5] and was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Chick-fil-A restaurant franchise, the game was officially known as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
The game was televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes, and broadcast on ESPN Radio and XM Satellite Radio.[4]
- ^ Romero, Iliana Limón (December 5, 2017). "Scott Frost to coach UCF in Peach Bowl despite Knights' hire of his replacement". Orlando Sentinel.
- ^ "Recap: Central Florida 34, Auburn 27". VegasInsider.com. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- ^ Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl [@CFAPeachBowl] (January 1, 2018). "Today's attendance: 71,109 That's the 19th #CFAPeachBowl sellout in 21 games. THANK YOU, FANS! pic.twitter.com/1TD8SOnbja" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and the College Football Playoff. Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
- ^ About the College Football Playoff. ESPN.