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- ↑ "College Football Poll.com". www.collegefootballpoll.com.
- ↑ "FIU & Temple Accept Invitations to Play in 2017 Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl". GasparillaBowl.com. December 3, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Scoring Summary (Final). 2017 Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl" (PDF). gasparillabowl.com. May 2017.