TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 D.J. Crowther ran for three of USF’s seven rushing touchdowns and the Bulls sped away in the second half to beat Delaware State 59-17 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The seven rushing touchdowns were one short of the school record of eight set against Kentucky Wesleyan in 1997.<\/p>\n
Crowther and Luke Kromenhoek ran for two touchdowns each in the first half. Kromenhoek’s second TD came from a yard out on the half’s last play about a minute after Delaware State (2-2) of the Championship Subdivision had narrowed the score to 21-17 on Ui Ale’s 20-yard pass to Jaylin Terzado.<\/p>\n
After the Hornets came up just short of converting a fourth-and-7 early in the second half, the Bulls (3-0) went 61 yards with Crowther scoring on a 39-yard run for a 35-17 lead. That started a run of four second-half TDs on consecutive possessions.<\/p>\n
Crowther finished with 101 of USF’s 291 rushing yards on 11 carries. Michael Van Buren was 23-of-32 passing for 300 yards and a TD to Joshua Porter, who had 106 yards receiving on eight catches for the Bulls (3-0).<\/p>\n
Ale was 16-of-22 for 249 yards and two scores. Nathan Stewart had 102 yards receiving, most of that coming on a catch-and-run 90-yard TD.<\/p>\n
USF is off to its first 3-0 start since 2018.<\/p>\n
The start of the game was delayed roughly a half-hour because of inclement weather.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Delaware State: home against Towson next Saturday.<\/p>\n
USF: at Bowling Green next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 D.J. Crowther ran for three of USF’s seven rushing touchdowns and the Bulls sped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,143,28,110,135,137,136,19211],"class_list":["post-405121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-college-football","tag-florida","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-usf-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}