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Quote:Despite ending the regular season with a heartbreaking 49-42 loss to Central Florida, South Florida has had a solid 9-2 year that will end in the Birmingham Bowl on Dec. 23.

Unfortunately for the Bulls, the official bowl game apparel is advertising for a school that doesn’t exist. The University of South Florida is taking on Texas Tech in the bowl game – not South Florida University.

To make this situation even more awkward, USF played in this exact bowl game last season – and technically in 2006 when it was called the PapaJohns.com Bowl – beating South Carolina, 46-39, in overtime.

However, the name is wrong only some of the apparel, but not all of it, specifically the tonal variety.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/12/usf-texa...ce=twitter

Gives a whole new meaning to SFU!
Ouch, USF should never get the Eastern North Carolina treatment.
(12-05-2017 06:24 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: [ -> ]Gives a whole new meaning to SFU!
If we could only work a “T” in there somehow.
Even worse considering USF was in the same bowl last season
I'm sure plenty of Oklahoma University fans are upset as well.
I remember when that was the PapaJohns.com bowl when it was a Big East bowl. The year Cincinnati was in it, they misspelled Cincinnati. And the Stadium did not sell Papa John's pizza but a local pizzeria had the pizza concessions. And of course they ran out of pizza.
Reminds me of the time the cheerleaders in my home town carried a banner through town in a parade declaring that they had SPRIT.

Nothing says support your academically failing schools than a misspelled parade banner.
http://www.thewizofodds.com/the_wiz_of_o...anded.html

Hopefully the link will work. This bowl has been mismanaged from day one!
Birmingham gonna Birmingham, Im surprised they spelled Florida correctly.
(12-05-2017 09:48 PM)RutgersMike Wrote: [ -> ]I remember when that was the PapaJohns.com bowl when it was a Big East bowl. The year Cincinnati was in it, they misspelled Cincinnati. And the Stadium did not sell Papa John's pizza but a local pizzeria had the pizza concessions. And of course they ran out of pizza.

They did the exact same thing in 2009 when South Carolina played there. It’s consistently one of the worst run bowls
(12-06-2017 03:33 AM)shere khan Wrote: [ -> ]Birmingham gonna Birmingham, Im surprised they spelled Florida correctly.

What’s wrong with the t shirts? SFU right?
Looks as if there is a lack of effective oversight with the contracted vendor that created the design. Once a sample design is created, it needs to be approved or reviewed by a couple of knowledgeable, detail-oriented people associated with the bowl/schools prior to mass production.
Does Birmingham do anything correctly?
(12-05-2017 06:25 PM)msm96wolf Wrote: [ -> ]Ouch, USF should never get the Eastern North Carolina treatment.

Eastern North Carolina is where East Carolina University is located. What is odd, and understandable, is referring to ECU as Eastern Carolina University.

Why is this understandable? In western North Carolina, there is a university named Western Carolina University.
(12-06-2017 07:34 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote: [ -> ]Does Birmingham do anything correctly?

No.
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