Lindy's Look at the Bulls - May be best chance to win BE

[Brad]

Bulls eyeing Big East title

USF, with bowl trips in six consecutive years, has a knack for getting to the postseason.

But fans are growing impatient with trips out of the country and to bowls named for pizzas and automotive supply stores. They are looking for the Bulls to break through to the BCS level.

The Bulls best opportunity might come this fall.

They not only return key personnel on both sides of the ball, but three of the usual Big East contenders — defending champion Connecticut, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh — will have new coaches, and there could be some period of adjustment there.

A future Big East BCS challenger, TCU, doesn’t come onboard until the 2012 season.

That doesn’t clinch anything, but it does present a rare shot for a USF team that returns 12 starters, including both kickers.

“I see the pieces in place,” coach Skip Holtz said. “I think there’s talent on this football team. I think these guys are working really good, and I think they have an unbelievable attitude.

“That gives us a chance to get there.”

Despite some early struggles offensively, the Bulls weren’t that far away from winning the conference title a year ago. Three of their four Big East losses were by a total of 14 points.

They lost 13-9 to Syracuse when they couldn’t score an offensive touchdown, and they fell 17-10 to Pittsburgh despite limiting the Panthers to just a field goal in the first half. And they dropped their regular-season finale at home to Connecticut, 19-16, on a 52-yard field goal with 17 seconds left.

The Bulls recovered from that disappointment with a bowl win over Clemson.

“Our next hurdle that we really need to climb is we need to represent the Big East,” Holtz said. “We need to win the Big East. Those are the goals that we have, the things that we want to accomplish.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that’s where we need to go.”

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[hm101]

hope so.

cant wait for this season to just start already