USF Football Runs Away from FAU, 48-13

TAMPA, FLA., OCT. 18, 2025 – The No. 19-ranked South Florida Bulls (6-1, 3-0 American) continued to roll over American Conference competitors as they posted their fourth straight 250-plus yard dashing recreation and ran of 27 straight factors in posting a 48-13 victory over FAU (3-4; 2-2 American) in entrance of 45,169 followers on homecoming in Raymond James Stadium, the fifth-largest homecoming crowd in program historical past.
 
With the victory, the Bulls posted their first four-game win streak since 2018 and began a convention season 3-0 for simply the fourth time in program historical past and the primary since 2018. The Bulls sixth win of the season additionally made them postseason eligible for the third straight 12 months underneath head coach Alex Golesh.
 
The Bulls have posted 4 straight video games with 40 or extra factors and have now received 5 straight residence video games by 25 factors or extra.  
 
Quarterback Byrum Brown ran for 111 yards and a landing, marking his seventh profession 100-yard recreation (second on the 12 months) as he led the Bulls to 259 yards on the bottom and 522 yards of offense. He additionally handed for 256 yards and three touchdowns, posting three or extra landing passes for the fourth straight recreation.
 
The Bulls wasted little time in getting on the board as Brown drove the Bulls 75 yards in 12 performs within the opening possession of the sport and gave USF a 7-0 lead with a 22-yard landing run up the center of the sphere.
 
A Mac Harris sack put the brakes on an FAU drive into USF territory and the Owls settled for a 45-yard subject objective to make it 7-3. Harris would go on to guide the Bulls with 10 tackles and a couple of.5 tackles for loss.
 
The Bulls made it 14-3 when Brown hit Jonathan Echols with a 19-yard landing cross to finish a 75-yard drive. Early within the second quarter the Bulls had 203 yards of offense and Brown had 74 yards dashing.
 
The Bulls lined up for the kickoff and punter Chase Leon hit an ideal arching onside kick over the entrance line of Owls. JeyQuan Smith raced by the Owls and recovered on the FAU35. The Bulls drove it to the FAU1 the place they confronted a 4^th-and-goal. They handed off to 6-5, 325-pound guard Cole Skinner who scored a landing for the second straight recreation to make it 21-3.
 
FAU, rallied, driving to the USF10 and kicking a 28-yard subject objective to make it 21-6 at halftime.
 
FAU received the ball to start out the second half and drove 75 yards in eight performs to chop the result in 21-13 when Caden Valtkamp hit tight finish Michael Kirch with shot 1-yard shovel cross for a landing. It was all USF after that.
 
After the Bulls protection pressured an FAU punt, Keshaun Singleton made an incredible catch between two Owl defenders to convey down a 39-yard toss from Brown and put the Bulls on the FAU25. The drive stalled there, and Nico Gramatica hit a 41-yard subject objective to make it 24-13 with 8:20 to play within the third quarter.
 
The protection pressured one other punt. Brown hit Christian Neptune with a lovely 32-yard cross on Third-and-long to maneuver USF to the FAU42. After shifting nearer to the FAU objective line, USF went for it on a 4^th-and-one on the 24. Brown rolled proper and hit tight finish Wyatt Sullivan within the flat. He turned it up the sideline and dragged an FAU defender the ultimate eight yards into the endzone for a 24-yard landing that made it 31-13.
 
Brown hit Jeremiah Koger on a double transfer and the freshman took it 60 yards for his third recreation with a landing and his second over 60 yards. Koger would lead the Bulls with 90 yards receiving.
 
On FAU’s subsequent possession, Jhalyn Shuler tipped a cross and Rico Watson intercepted it. Five performs later Nykahi Davenport, who completed with 71 yards dashing, dove in from two yards out to make it 45-13.
 
A 28-yard Gramatica subject objective capped a 27-point USF run to finish the sport.
 
KEY STATS
• USF ran for 259 yards, marking their fourth straight recreation posting 250 or extra yards on the bottom. The Bulls have run for 306 yards at UNT and 407 within the convention opener vs. Charlotte and have logged 972 dashing yards of their first three convention video games.
• The USF protection prolonged a string of now 15-straight video games making a turnover and USF didn’t flip the ball over within the recreation.
• USF held FAU to 23 yards dashing on the sport and the Owls stood at -13 yards till late within the fourth quarter.
• The homecoming crowd of 45,169 was the Bulls largest since 2009 and ranks because the fifth-largest in program historical past.
 
NOTABLES
• QB Byrum Brown ran for 11 yards and a landing on the night time, recording his seventh profession 100-yard dashing recreation and second on the 12 months. He had 94 yards and a landing at halftime. Brown posted three or extra passing touchdowns for the fourth straight recreation – accumulating three on the night time – and has accounted for 18 whole touchdowns in his final 4 video games.
• WR Jeremiah Koger led the Bulls in receiving yards for the third straight recreation posting 4 catches for 90 yards. He posted his third straight recreation with a landing on a 60-yard seize, marking his second landing over 60 yards on the 12 months.
• LB Mac Harris led the Bulls with 10 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack.
 
UP NEXT
USF hits the highway for an enormous match-up with No. 22-ranked Memphis (6-1; 2-1 American), which misplaced at UAB on Saturday. The recreation on the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn. will kick off at midday on ESPN or ESPN2.
 
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ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF soccer program first took the sphere in 1997 and accomplished its twenty eighth season in 2024 with its second-straight bowl victory within the Hawai’i Bowl. Head coach Alex Golesh posted a program-best six-game turnaround and a Boca Raton Bowl victory in his first season in 2023. USF accomplished building on a brand new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $340-million on-campus stadium and soccer operations middle broke floor within the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 17 successful seasons, earned 16 All-America choices (together with two consensus choices, the final coming in 2021), in addition to 33 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 gamers chosen within the NFL Draft and the Bulls have made 12 bowl recreation appearances (going 8-4), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and making 4 straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. USF posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, whereas ending each seasons ranked within the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked within the Top 25 in the course of the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as excessive as No. 2 within the Associated Press rankings in the course of the 2007 season.
 

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