Golesh, Best And Rucker to Signify USF Football at American Kickoff

TAMPA, FLA., July 22, 2025 – USF Football Head Coach Alex Golesh, senior middle Cole Best and senior cornerback De’Shawn Rucker will signify the Bulls on the 2025 American Kickoff in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, July 24, and Friday, July 25.
 
Coaches and gamers from the American’s 14 groups will meet the media and interact with followers on the Charlotte Convention Center beginning Thursday afternoon. Fans can watch protection of the occasion on two feeds on ESPN+ on Friday beginning at 8 a.m.
 
ESPN+ – Friday Broadcasts:
ESPN STUDIO SHOW
American Football Kickoff on ESPN+
9:00 AM – USF Head Coach Alex Golesh
Conference coaches seem from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
                 
PRESS CONFERENCES
American Football Kickoff Press Conference Feed
8:15 AM – American Commissioner Tim Pernetti
8:40 AM – USF Head Coach Alex Golesh
Conference coaches seem from 8:40 a.m. to 1:20 p.m.
 
The Bulls will open their third season underneath Golesh in a nationally televised recreation on ESPN on Thursday, Aug. 28, vs. Boise State. That recreation is about for a 5:30 p.m. kickoff at Raymond James Stadium.
 
USF, which is one in all 15 packages to have gained a bowl or playoff recreation in every of the final two seasons, returns 12 starters in 2025 (six on offense and 6 on protection). Quarterback Byrum Brown, who handed for a program-record 3,292 yards and ran for 836 in 2023, returns after an injury-shortened 2024 season. The Bulls additionally return 4 starters on the offensive line and huge receiver Keshaun Singleton, who broke out mid-season in 2024, posting two 100-yard video games and 408 receiving yards within the closing seven video games.
 
On protection, USF returns its prime tacklers from each the 2023 and 2024 seasons in linebackers Mac Harris and Jhalyn Shuler. Harris led the workforce with 82 tackles and 12 tackles for loss in 2024, whereas Shuler logged a team-best 97 stops to go along with 8.5 tackles for loss in 2023. Three starters additionally return within the secondary, led by security Tavin Ward, who led the workforce with three interceptions and completed second with 62 tackles in 2024.
 
Up Next:
The Bulls open fall camp on Mon., July 28. USF will maintain the annual Kickoff Luncheon on Aug. 20 at Armature Works in downtown Tampa. The annual occasion will function head coach Alex Golesh and the complete USF workforce and training workers. Public tickets are on sale now and may be bought here.
 
Tickets:
Season tickets for the 2025 USF soccer season tickets are on sale and could also be bought by calling 1-800-GoBulls or visiting this LINK.
 
Single-game tickets for the 2025 USF soccer season may be bought by calling 1-800-GoBulls or visiting this LINK.
 
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ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF soccer program first took the sector in 1997 and accomplished its twenty eighth season in 2024 with its second-straight bowl victory within the Hawai’i Bowl. The Bulls are one in all 15 packages to win a postseason recreation every of the final two years as head coach Alex Golesh grew to become the primary USF coach to file bowl victories in every of their first two seasons. USF accomplished building on a brand new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $349-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 profitable seasons, earned 16 All-America alternatives (together with one in 2024), 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). 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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