2017 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team


The 2017 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blue Raiders played their home games at the Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as members of the East Division of Conference USA. They were led by 12th-year head coach Rick Stockstill. They finished the season 7–6, 4–4 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division. They received an invite to the Camellia Bowl where they defeated Arkansas State.

Previous season

The Blue Raiders finished the 2016 season 8–5, 5–3 in C-USA play to finish in third place in the East Division. They received a bid to the Hawaii Bowl where they lost to Hawaii.

Schedule and results

Middle Tennessee announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of six home and away games in the regular season.
The Blue Raiders hosted two of the four non-conference opponents, Bowling Green from the Mid-American Conference and Vanderbilt from the Southeastern Conference and travel to Minnesota of the Big Ten Conference and Syracuse of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Game summaries

Vanderbilt

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–142016VANDY, 47–24

at Syracuse

at Minnesota

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–22014MINN, 35–24

Bowling Green

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02016MTSU, 41–21

at Florida Atlantic

Overall recordLast meetingResult
11–32016MTSU, 77–56

FIU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
8–42016MTSU, 42–35

at UAB

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–22014MTSU, 34–22

Marshall

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–42016MARSH, 42–17

UTEP

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–12014UTEP, 24–21

at Charlotte

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–02016MTSU, 38–31

at WKU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
34–31–12016WKU, 44–432OT

Old Dominion

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02014MTSU, 41–28

vs Arkansas State–Camellia Bowl

Overall recordLast meetingResult
9–52012ASU, 45–0