{"id":50497,"date":"2025-11-17T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50497\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:16:39","slug":"usfs-playoff-hopes-fizzle-with-loss-to-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50497\/","title":{"rendered":"USF\u2019s playoff hopes fizzle with loss to Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 2025 &#8211; The University of South Florida lost 41-38 Saturday to Navy, all but ending their College Football Playoff and conference title hopes. The Bulls (7-3, 4-2) came into the game in control of their own destiny as the 12th seed in the playoff committee&#8217;s projected postseason bracket. USF rallied to score 22 points in the fourth quarter, but couldn&#8217;t stop Navy&#8217;s offense and now faces an uphill battle to win the American Conference and secure a berth in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 17, 2025 &#8211; The University of South Florida lost 41-38 Saturday to Navy, all but ending their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-50497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497","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=50497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}