2016 South Florida Bulls football team


The 2016 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 2016 season is the 20th season for the Bulls, and their fourth as a member of the American Athletic Conference. They played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, and were led during the regular season by head coach Willie Taggart, who was in his fourth year. Following the regular season, but before the team's appearance in the Birmingham Bowl, Taggart left to take the head coaching vacancy at Oregon, with co-offensive coordinator T. J. Weist named as interim head coach for the bowl game.
Even though South Florida had been ranked as high as #2 in 2007, this was their first season finishing the season ranked; even though they were ranked in the 2008 pre-season poll.

Schedule

Game summaries

Towson

Northern Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–12010USF, 27–3

at Syracuse

Overall recordLast meetingResult
7–22015USF, 45–24

Florida State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–22015FSU, 34–14

at Cincinnati

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–82015USF, 65–27

East Carolina

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–12015USF, 22–17

UConn

Overall recordLast meetingResult
7–62015USF, 28–20

at Temple

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–12015USF, 44–23

Navy

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–12015NAVY, 29–17

at Memphis

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–52015MEM, 24–17

at SMU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–12015USF, 38–14

UCF

Overall recordLast meetingResult
6–22015USF, 44–3

South Carolina–Birmingham Bowl

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–12004SC, 34–3

Rankings