The 2017 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team represented Southern Utah University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season.

They were led by second-year head coach Demario Warren and played their home games at Eccles Coliseum in Cedar City, Utah as sixth-year as members of the Big Sky Conference.

[1] They finished the season 9–3, 7–1 in Big Sky play to earn a share of the conference championship with Weber State.

[2][3] They received the conference's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Weber State in the second round.

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