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Temple wins the 2017 Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl with a 28-3 beatdown over FIU

The Temple Owls’ senior class is the winningest in school history. Now, they can add a bowl win to their already impressive resume.

Temple’s defense manhandled the FIU Panthers, 28-3, behind a bowl-record seven sacks to win the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.

Redshirt-junior quarterback Frank Nutile was namedq MVP of the game with 254 yards passing and a touchdown, and another 18 yards and a score on the ground to give Temple their first bowl win since defeating Wyoming in the 2011 New Mexico Bowl.