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On 4/7/2018 at 1:03 AM, Triple B said:

If that is game #2 day, hopefully it will be at night, making both more than doable ...

**** game 2 is at 3pm Saturday. That will definitely hurt attendance...

Determined by the conference. According to twitter on January 16th, they said that they were hoping for "early February".

1 hour ago, Brad said:

I hope ya’all threw in a little extra for the USF Football Center option. 

For sure! Need to get that tax deduction somehow, since tax reform rules out the rest of my donation now.

2 hours ago, bowman1 said:

Mine was automatically rolled in and showed as a statement credit toward my first payment 

Yea, I would double check that if I were you. Mine looked similar where I could see the credit being applied to the first payment, but when you add up the total payments (including the credit) they were actually more than the statement amount, so I wasn't actually getting credited anything. 

5 minutes ago, El_Toro_86 said:

Renewed my 2 this morning.  Hope to get the jersey.   I had my refund for the lost game last year rolled in to my 2018 season ticket package but didn’t see that reflective in the invoice.  John, if you’re checking the thread can you please comment.  Thanks!

I also had the same thing.

If it is at Solider Field (which it appears more and more likely that this remains the case, since USF changed their website in the last 24 hours), then I am definitely in. 

Champaign... not so sure. 

I will be driving over to Birmingham from Atlanta Friday night and back Saturday Afternoon. If anyone is flying in/out Atlanta I should have room for a few more. Looks like there are still decent flights on Southwest, Delta, and Spirit. $200-250 roundtrip. 

With sanctions announced today, Ole Miss players are free to transfer without sitting out. I wonder if there are any there we could go after?

9 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

That was not my understanding. I never heard it was a false report.

Do you have any source for the move then? The only thing I ever heard about it leaving Solider field was from TDS guys and I'm pretty sure Collin came out and said his source was at least premature if not wrong. 

5 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

I get wanting to see Chi Town (and it is great) but I am glad the game is back on campus. I would like to see another university's campus and I really don't want to see another boring NFL stadium.

25 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

No longer...it was moved back to their campus last month.

I thought the move back to Campus ended up being a false report? 

Still at Soldier field as far as I know.

20 hours ago, 79 Bull said:

Does UCF sell beer in the stadium now?  Asking for a friend.

Only in certain "club" sections.

Seen a lot of discussion around this game being sold out and USF overselling their allotment and having to call and tell some that they don't have tickets even though they got a confirmation. A little nervous, but I am assuming they have already reached out to everyone who will not be receiving tickets.

Has anyone received their tickets or does anyone know when we will actually receive tickets? Also fun side note, do you think we would have opened up the upper deck for this game if it were at home and would we have sold out 65k? JK seemed to think on twitter we would have only been able to sell 50k, which is only 5k more than what has sold already.

1 minute ago, NewEnglandBull said:

But the decision is made before then

18 minutes ago, jasonb56 said:

We also may end up higher in the polls after beating UCF, which in turn means we host... many scenarios still to play out.

NewEnglandBull is exactly right. Who is higher in the polls only matter prior to the UCF game. The rankings that come out after the UCF game are NOT USED. 

3 minutes ago, SANJAY said:

Then root for SMU to win out and beat Memphis. I think they can still win the West in which case there may be a 3 way tie of 6-2 teams between Memphis, SMU and Houston. Then whoever comes out of that would be coming to Tampa.

Or even just for SMU to beat Memphis (and not win out), because then we would have the tiebreaker with Memphis (conference record) and would host.

Sounds like just an ankle sprain

Here is why we are unlikely to host even if we beat UCF and Memphis wins out. We would likely either fall into #1 with Memphis being ranked and us not.  Or #2 with both of us ranked but Memphis being higher. Remember these are the rankings from the week before the UCF game not after. The best shot for Memphis to lose is SMU. Lets go Mustangs!

Host Team selection criteria:

1. If only one division champion is ranked entering the final week of conference play, it will host if it wins in that week. If that team loses, a composite of four computer rankings is used to determine the host.
2. If both division champions are ranked, the higher-ranked team that won in the final week will host. If, in this scenario, neither wins in the final week, the same computer ranking system is used.
3. If neither division champion is ranked, the aforementioned computer rankings are used.
4. If neither CFP nor computer rankings determine a host, the teams' records against common conference opponents are used.
5. If still tied, overall record determines the host.
6. Finally, a coin toss is held at the conference offices.

49 minutes ago, BrownBullsFan said:

Just a reminder, that mostly likely scenario is USF @ Memphis IF USF wins out.  Southwest has TPA-MEM non-stops that you can cancel for free as long as you plan to fly within a year.

I agree Memphis is most likely, but SMU could still challenge for that West conference title as well. 

2 minutes ago, 79 Bull said:

So you're saying if both USF and Memphis win out, Memphis will be ranked higher than us in the CFP rankings which is the tiebreaker for hosting the AAC championship?

He is saying that is most likely, but really just an educated guess at this point until CFP rankings come out. 

1 minute ago, usf97 said:

Several "converted Safeties" have won National Championships playing QB. Tim Tebow, Vince Young, Charlie Ward, Tommie Frazier, Scott Frost. 

All of those players played defense in HS because they were probably the most athletic player on the field. It seems to work at every level except the NFL. Michael Vick probably has done the best job at the pro level but it cannot be sustained. 

 

Agreed I was not trying to take a shot at QF at all. I love him as our QB and think he will be USF's best ever by the end of this season. Was simply trying to make the point that simply because a player converts from another position doesn't mean he wasn't a good QB.

9 minutes ago, Bull94 said:

Their converted WR had 5 career pass attempts before our game.

Good thing we didn't rush him on that 4th and 24.

 

How many has our converted safety (preseason Heisman QB hopeful) had before this game?

And our QB had a much better game passing than theirs did. Again what is your point? That Houston is a trash team? I gave you an objective third party that said they are the 44th ranked team, but you choose to just skip over that and go back to meaningless conjecture. 

How about this? Houston is a top 100 team would you agree with that? We should have beat them and didn't. We play that game over again 10 times and we win 9 times out of 10. But we didn't. UConn and Tulsa are both worse teams than Houston (and yes I know Tulsa beat Houston, but I am talking total body of work over the season). We will beat both. Then we will play UCF who is the best team we have faced. We will also be the best team that UCF has faced. It will be a tight game. We may win, we may lose. Personally I think we will run all over UCF, and come up with a great quality hard earned win, which I look forward to witnessing in person. 

12 minutes ago, Bull94 said:

 

Fact is we lost at home to a 4-3 team who brought in a converted wide receiver as their third string QB.

And the fact is we are a 7-1 team with a converted safety as our QB. What's your point? Athletes make good QBs in college football? Maybe Houston would be 7-0 if they had started him everygame?

1 hour ago, Bull94 said:

they had lost their last 2 (Tulsa was a blow out not an anomaly) and went to their 3rd string QB who still has more receiving yards this year than passing yards.

 

 

You act like if X team loses to Y team who loses to Z team that means Z team is better than X. We have no chance against UCF because they beat Memphis and Memphis beat Houston and Houston just beat us.  Sorry buddy its not that simple. Every game is unique and determined by different circumstances and matchups. Yes Houston has some bad losses, but they are still a good team. The difference between a top 15 team and a top 50 team is not that large. That's why teams move in and out of the top 25 all season long. And I was going off of the S&P+ rankings that have Houston 44th.

Its not like their first two QB's got knocked out of the game. They went to King because he gave them the best chance to win. 

1 hour ago, Bourbon Bull said:

We didn't win.

Yes completely understand that. A win is a win and a loss is a loss. But we didn't looked outmatched against one of top 50 teams in the nation. We controlled the game and never trailed until 11 seconds left in the game after some fluke magic going against us. 

There are certainly things we could have done better to pull away early, manage the game better late etc. to ensure we won. But the fact is we played an okay game and lost to a good team. That shows me with a better game we can certainly beat anyone in our conference. 

8 hours ago, usfbullrider said:

Yea this is old school coaching at its worst.   Play your best always.  Im trying to remember if Holtz did this but I think so.

 

 

The 4th and 24 isnt on the coaches IMO.  It was the right call the guy just high pointed it over Auggie.  Houston recruits talent better than anyone in the league.  Our DC has done a really good job but we havent played UCF yet.

UCF also hasn't played a Defense close to as good as ours yet either. But yes their offense looks really good. 

25 minutes ago, Shockley3333 said:

I'm pretty certain ESPN is only allowed one 6 day and they used it for Tulane so we should know next Monday. I could have sworn that it was locked in as a night game already though.

As far as I know they can use the 6 day every week if they want to.