USF FOOTBALL: 10K Seats for Service Distributed for Friday’s Game

Bulls Welcome MacDill Personnel & Their Families with 10,000 Seats for Service Friday

Four-star Marine Corps General McKenzie to conduct coin flip

MacDill Para-commandos to make pregame jump into Ray Jay

TAMPA, NOV. 11, 2021 – When the South Florida football team takes on No. 2-ranked Cincinnati Friday at Raymond James Stadium, the Bulls will welcome thousands of MacDill Air Force Base servicemembers and their families to the clash with the highest-ranked opponent ever to face the Bulls in Tampa.

USF Athletics distributed over 10,000 Seats for Service tickets on the air base, located in South Tampa, and welcomed servicemembers and their families to the Bulls’ annual Salute to Service game. The Seats for Service were donated by USF football season ticket members and others in the community in appreciation and respect for service men and women that serve our nation.

USF will don special Salute to Service uniforms and helmets displaying the stars and stripes for the game.

Four-star Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command at MacDill and a combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters, will conduct the pregame coin flip and will also conduct a military oath of enlistment for new servicemembers following the conclusion of the first quarter.

Pregame activities will also include a jump by the U.S. Special Operations Para-commandos based out of MacDill. The Para-commandos represent more than 70,000 special operations service members from all branches of the U.S. military.

USF will welcome 200 Cadets and midshipmen of USF’s Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs that will march with the Herd of Thunder Marching Band and be on the field for the performance of the national anthem.

In-game activities will feature recognitions of recipients of the Pat Tillman Scholarship and Jason Holbrook Leadership Scholarship.

Friday’s game is a primetime telecast on ESPN2 and set for a 6 p.m. kickoff.

Game tickets can be purchased by calling or texting 1-800-GoBulls or by visiting USFBULLSTIX.com.

ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and will celebrate its 25th season (22nd at the FBS level) in 2021. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 14 All-America selections and 29 first-team all-conference selections, and have seen 30 players selected in the NFL Draft. USF has made 10 bowl games appearances (going 6-4 in those games) and posted a program record six straight appearances from 2005-2010. The Bulls most recently made four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18 and 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 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.

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