It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season.
The 8th edition of the Heart of Dallas Bowl, it was sponsored by fast food chicken restaurant Zaxby's, and was officially known as the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl.
The game featured the Utah Utes from the Pac-12 Conference against the West Virginia Mountaineers from the Big 12 Conference.
This was the second all-time meeting between the two schools, with the first occurring in the 1964 Liberty Bowl.
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