Powell was part of team that helped secure last two recruiting classes ranked among the best outside of the autonomous four conferences
TAMPA, FLA., FEB. 19, 2025 – University of South Florida Football Head Coach Alex Golesh has announced the promotion of Ryland Powell to director of on-campus recruiting.
“Ryland has been a big part of our success in recruiting over the last two years, has a tremendous work ethic, and has been integral in elevating the manner in which we host prospects on our campus to an elite level,” Golesh said. “I’m excited to see her take the next step in her career and lead our on-campus recruiting.”
Powell, who enters her third season with the program in 2025, has served as the assistant director of on-campus recruiting the last two years helping USF secure classes in 2024 and 2025 that both ranked among the very best outside the autonomous four conferences. USF’s 2024 class was ranked No. 1 in the American Athletic Conference and among all non-autonomous four conference teams, while the 2025 class was ranked second among both.
USF welcomed 40 new Bulls this year, including 27 members of the 2025 Recruiting Class and 13 transfer portal additions.
In 2024, USF capped its second-straight winning season with a second-straight bowl victory, downing San Jose State 41-39 in a five-overtime thriller in the Hawai’i Bowl on Dec. 24. The Bulls are one of just 15 teams to have posted a bowl or College Football Playoff win in each of the past two seasons and the only one to have scored 40 or more points in each of those victories.
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ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 28th season in 2024 with its second-straight bowl victory in the Hawai’i Bowl. Head coach Alex Golesh posted a program-best six-game turnaround and a Boca Raton Bowl victory in his first season in 2023. USF completed construction on a new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $340-million on-campus stadium and football operations center broke ground in the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 17 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections (including two consensus selections, the last coming in 2021), as well as 33 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft and the Bulls have made 12 bowl game appearances (going 8-4), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and making four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. USF 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. USF 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 Associated Press rankings during the 2007 season.
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