Bulls and Broncos will meet at Raymond James Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 28
TAMPA, FLA., May 13, 2025 – The 2025 South Florida Football Season presented by Tampa General Hospital will kick off in an ESPN nationally-televised clash with Boise State on Thursday, Aug. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in Raymond James Stadium, ESPN and the American Athletic Conference announced today.
The South Florida clash with Boise State will lead off two marquee games on ESPN on Aug. 28. Nebraska will take on Cincinnati in Kansas City, Mo. in a 9 p.m. kickoff on ESPN that evening. The kick times for the games were announced live on ESPN’s Up Front show on Tuesday among several Week 0 and Week 1 marquee games being broadcast on ESPN and ABC.
The 2025 season-opening clash will mark the first-ever meeting between South Florida and Boise State, which went 12-2 last year, won the Mountain West Championship, and earned a spot in the first 12-team College Football Playoff.
USF will face possibly the toughest non-conference schedule in program history with three games slated against teams in The Athletics’ “Way too Early Top 25”, including No. 11 Florida, No. 15 Miami and No. 21 Boise State. The Bulls have never faced three Associated Press Poll-ranked teams in the non-conference slate. USF has only faced two twice, doing so last year in taking on No. 4 Alabama and No. 8 Miami and in 2022. If preseason rankings hold, it will mark the sixth straight season the Bulls have faced at least one ranked opponent in the non-conference slate and 17 of the last 20.
The Bulls’ other non-conference game dates were previously announced. South Florida will travel to play at Florida on Saturday, Sept. 6, and at Miami on Saturday, Sept. 13, before returning to Tampa to face South Carolina State on Saturday, Sept. 20, in Raymond James Stadium. South Florida will begin American Athletic Conference play with back-to-back Friday night, showcase games. USF will open play in The American vs. Charlotte on Friday, Oct. 3 in Raymond James Stadium before a Friday night road game at North Texas on Friday, Oct. 10. See the Bulls’ complete 2025 schedule HERE.
South Florida’s third season under Head Coach Alex Golesh will feature four weeknight showcase games on the year, including three in Raymond James Stadium. Kickoff times and television arrangements for the remainder of the Bulls 2025 schedule will be announced at a later date.
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USF football will conduct summer workouts and fall camp before kicking off the 2025 season on Thursday, Aug. 28 vs. Boise State in Raymond James Stadium. The Broncos will be the first of potentially three preseason Top 25-ranked non-conference opponents for the Bulls, who will also play at Florida (Sept. 6) and at Miami (Sept. 13).
Tickets:
Deposits for new 2025 USF football season tickets are being accepted now and may be placed by calling 1-800-GoBulls or visiting this LINK. The Bulls will play six contests in Raymond James Stadium in 2025, starting with a season-opening clash with 2024 College Football Playoff participant Boise State on Thursday, Aug. 28.
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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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