 In 2017, they lost to the Purdue Boilermakers in the Foster Farms Bowl, the Wildcats 21st ever bowl game.The Wildcats finished with a record of 7–6 (5–4 Pac-12).During the season, the performance of sophomore QB Khalil Tate was especially impressive; after an injury to starter Brandon Dawkins in the October 7 road game at Colorado, Tate took over and proceeded to run for 327 yards, a single-game FBS record for quarterbacks, breaking the previous record of Northern Illinois' Jordan Lynch set in 2013.