TAMPA (August 27, 2026) \u2013 The Bulls are celebrating 30 seasons of South Florida football in style. South Florida announced its full slate of game-day themes and promotions on Thursday for the 2026 season at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n
The seven-game home schedule kicks off Sept. 5 against FIU and runs through Thanksgiving weekend, closing out with a showdown against defending AAC champion Tulane on Nov. 27 or 28. The conference’s regular season champion will host the AAC Championship Game this year on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m.\u00a0
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\nGame-by-Game Themes & Promotions<\/p>\n
Sept. 5 vs. FIU (7 p.m.) \u2013 Opening Night \n<\/p>\n
\n\tTitle sponsor: Power Design
\n\tGiveaway: 30th Anniversary Branded Rally Towels (first 10,000 fans)
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Sept. 19 vs. Delaware State (7 p.m.)<\/p>\n
\n\tTitle sponsor: Coca-Cola
\n\tGiveaway: Thundersticks (first 10,000 fans)
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Oct. 3 vs. Temple (Kick: TBA)<\/p>\n
\n\tTitle sponsor: Tampa General Hospital
\n\tGiveaway: “Jersey” Drawstring Bags (first 5,000 fans)
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Oct. 17 vs. Kent State (Kick: TBA) \u2013 Homecoming<\/p>\n
\n\tTitle sponsor: Florida Blue
\n\tGiveaway: 30th Anniversary Acrylic Commemorative Ticket, honoring the very first ticket ever issued for South Florida football (first 5,000 fans)
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Oct. 31 vs. UAB (Kick: TBA) \u2013 Black Out\/Halloween<\/p>\n
\n\tTitle sponsor: LifeLink
\n\tGiveaway: Black Out Themed Rally Towels (first 10,000 fans)
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Nov. 12 vs. Memphis (8 p.m.) \u2013 Salute to Service<\/p>\n
\nNov. 27 or 28 vs. Tulane (Kick: TBA) \u2013 Senior Day & Fan Appreciation
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\n\tTitle sponsor: Morgan & Morgan
\n\tGiveaway: TBD
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Additional giveaways details and title sponsors will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Don’t miss a single moment of this historic 30th season. Secure your seats now at USFBULLSTIX.COM or by calling 1-800-GO-BULLS.<\/p>\n
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About South Florida Football?
\nThe South Florida football program first took the field in 1997 and will play its 30th season in 2026.
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\nIn 2025, the Bulls went 9-4, earned a third straight bowl appearance, made the program’s first College Football Playoff ranking appearance, and were ranked four times in the weekly Associated Press Top 25 poll. South Florida completed construction on a new $22-million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023, and construction is in progress on an on-campus stadium and football operations center broke slated for completion by 2027.
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\nThe Bulls have posted 18 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections (including two consensus selections, the last coming in 2021), and 35 first-team all-conference honorees. South Florida has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft, while the Bulls have made 13 bowl game appearances (going 8-5), tied for the third-most nationally in the first 25 seasons of a program’s bowl eligibility. South Florida posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. The Bulls spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as high as No. 2 in the AP rankings during the 2007 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA (August 27, 2026) \u2013 The Bulls are celebrating 30 seasons of South Florida football in style. South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-870740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}