USF Football’s Brown Named A Davey O’Brien Award Semifinalist

Brown is the one FBS participant with 2,000 passing, 700 speeding yards on the 2025 season; Has posted three-straight 100-yard speeding video games

TAMPA, FLA., NOV. 12, 2025 – South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown has been named a semifinalist for the 2025 Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award.

The 20 quarterbacks named semifinalists have helped information their respective groups to a mixed document of 154-31 (.832). The Davey O’Brien Foundation will announce the three finalists on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The 2025 Davey O’Brien Award winner will likely be unveiled reside on ESPN on Friday, Dec. 12, throughout The Home Depot College Football Awards.

 

The award’s three finalists will once more be chosen based mostly on voting from the Davey O’Brien National Selection Committee in addition to bonus ballots awarded from the second spherical of the Davey O’Brien Fan Vote. For the sixth straight 12 months, fan voting on social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) will earn gamers bonus choice committee votes.

 

To vote, followers should just like the official graphic from the @daveyobrien social media account that highlights their favourite quarterback. The second spherical will shut Friday, Nov. 21, at 11:59 p.m. (CT).

 

Brown is the one participant within the nation to have posted 2,000 passing yards and 700 speeding yards on the 12 months and is on tempo to change into simply the 12^th participant ever to submit a 3,000-yard passing and 1,000-yard speeding season in FBS historical past. He is at the moment driving a string of three straight 100-yard speeding video games and is considered one of three FBS gamers within the final 30 seasons to have at the very least 2,200 passing yards, 19 passing touchdowns and 700 speeding yards by means of 9 group video games of a marketing campaign. The others are Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts (2019) and Louisville’s Lamar Jackson (2016).

Brown ranks within the high 25 nationally in six classes. He stands No. 3 in factors liable for (18.7 ppg) and No. 4 in whole offense (323.1 ypg) whereas rating within the high 25 of each passing (No. 17 with 19) and speeding (No. 25 with 9) touchdowns on the 12 months. He additionally ranks No. 21 in yards per completion (13.11) and yards per try (8.47) and stands simply outdoors the highest 25 in move effectivity, coming in at No. 27 (155.3).

 

Brown grew to become the primary NFL or NCAA participant within the final 30 years to submit 200 passing yards, 100 speeding yards and a 90 % completion share whereas accounting for 348 yards and three touchdowns within the Bulls win vs. UTSA. He went 14-of-15 (93.3) for 239 yards and two touchdowns passing – an effectivity of 271.2 that ranks second all-time at USF – whereas posting his ninth profession 100-yard speeding sport, gaining 109 yards and a landing on simply 9 carries (12.1 ypc). He led the Bulls on a 31-0 run to take a 52-10 lead and led landing drives of 65, 75, 65, 77 and 75 yards.

Up Next:

USF heads to Annapolis, Md. for the primary of back-to-back highway matchups that start the ultimate three-game stretch of American Conference common season play. The Bulls will tackle Navy (7-2; 5-1 American) on Saturday in a midday kickoff on ESPN2, the Bulls’ sixth-straight nationally televised sport and ninth on the season.

 

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THE DAVEY O’BRIEN AWARD:

The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award is offered yearly to the nation’s greatest faculty quarterback and is the oldest and most prestigious nationwide quarterback award. The forty ninth Annual Davey O’Brien Awards Dinner honoring the winner will likely be held Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, at The Fort Worth Club in Fort Worth, Texas. For extra info, go to www.daveyobrienaward.com.

        The Davey O’Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O’Brien Foundation has given away greater than $1.4 million in scholarships and college grants to assist highschool and faculty athletes rework management on the sphere into management in life.

        In 1938, O’Brien, who was a star quarterback for TCU, grew to become the primary participant ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the identical 12 months. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. 

  

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 development 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 picks (together with two consensus picks, 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 sport 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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