AP Football Top 25 appearances 2000-2022

[Cubanbull]

We have really hit tough times lately, but we haven’t been bad before and we can bounce back up. Here are the weekly appearances by schools outside the P conferences.

First the Four leaving for Big12

BYU 100, Cincinnati 92, UCF 54, Houston 51

The Rest still left outside

Boise 165, Fresno 52, USF 47, Memphis 27, Coastal Carolina 24, Marshall 24, Northern Illinois 23

SMU 19, SDSU 18

Edited April 26, 2023 by Cubanbull

[bulloni]

While it didn't always end well, our first 4 hires all got the team into the top 20 at some point in their tenures.

Really not hard to win here. Any school being able to say 80% of their coaches have appeared in the AP poll at the school would be impressive, let alone a G5 team.

Here's to hoping Golesh can prove Scott to be an anomaly.

[puc86]

Once Boise builds an OCS and starts winning they are stone cold locks for getting called up…

[bulloni]

47 minutes ago, puc86 said:

Once Boise builds an OCS and starts winning they are stone cold locks for getting called up…

Looking into the Boise metro area its wild how much potential USF has if we can just lock down the gulf coast as Bulls country.

Boise has the #75 metro market in America. Bradenton is  #70, Ft Myers is #77, and Lakeland is #80.

Edited April 26, 2023 by bulloni

[Bulls On Parade]

1 hour ago, bulloni said:

Looking into the Boise metro area its wild how much potential USF has if we can just lock down the gulf coast as Bulls country.

Boise has the #75 metro market in America. Bradenton is  #70, Ft Myers is #77, and Lakeland is #80.

 

But if you look at classes they come from a large area out west and even out east so its not like they are that built on Boise local talent.

 

But the avg class is ranked around 60s....shows good coaching can use that and make a solid team.

We have the talent all around this area no doubt....we just need a coach that knows what he is doing and this program is back on the map pretty quick.

 

[belgianbull]

5 hours ago, bulloni said:

While it didn't always end well, our first 4 hires all got the team into the top 20 at some point in their tenures.

Really not hard to win here. Any school being able to say 80% of their coaches have appeared in the AP poll at the school would be impressive, let alone a G5 team.

Here's to hoping Golesh can prove Scott to be an anomaly.

This is so true. Even Coach Holtz had wins on the road against a ranked Notre Dame, against Miami, and a bowl win against Clemson. Furthermore Coach Strong had a magical first season that ended with a bowl win against Texas Tech.

Both ended up as failures for similar reasons (couldn't keep it going), but in the grand scheme of things both brought some success to USF.

If you take away the last 3 years, we have been an above average team nationally since Leavitt was fired.

There is zero reason that we can't get back to  at least being ranked and going to bowl games.

[Outlaw]

Every other coach at usf a top 25 appeared and top 25 win. CJs was the worst fbs coach in our lifetimes.  All we can do is hope Jeff lost was the outlier  and not the product of Ad MK's vision for USF football .

Edited April 26, 2023 by Outlaw

[hm101]

[Sk00b]

1 hour ago, Outlaw said:

Every other coach at usf a top 25 appeared and top 25 win. CJs was the worst fbs coach in our lifetimes.  All we can do is hope Jeff lost was the outlier  and not the product of Ad MK's vision for USF football .

Are you sure? Tell me more.

[Outlaw]

2 minutes ago, Sk00b said:

Are you sure? Tell me more.

Well AD MK extended a one fbs coach and he failed even worse. He extended the whole athletic department and it seems they are all underperforming. I am still waiting for any modern fbs coach that is worse than 1-26 in FBS football. We had a proven winner interested in Herman and hired another first time HC with zero head coaching experience. I hope Golesh bucks the trend of losing if not AD should be fired.

Edited April 27, 2023 by Outlaw