From USF's Spring Prospectus:

WHAT’S BACK FOR 2016?
Coming off the program’s first bowl appearance in five years, USF returns school season record holders at quarterback (Quinton Flowers, 991 yards rushing, 22 passing TD), running back (Marlon Mack, 1,381 rushing yards) and wide receiver (Rodney Adams (822 yards, 9 TD), a middle linebacker who posted the second-most tackles in school history, and four all-conference selections.

On offense, the Bulls return 93 percent of their yards – including 98 percent of rushing, 93 percent of passing and 86 percent of receiving yardage – from a record-smashing offense that posted school-records of 5,741 total yards, 3,205 rushing yards and 54 offensive touchdowns in 2015. The Bulls averaged 33.6 points and 441 yards of offense per game in 2015.

On defense, the Bulls return seven of their top nine tacklers, including leading tackler and all-conference linebacker Auggie Sanchez (117 tackles), and players that accounted for 12 of USF’s 17 interceptions and 16 of 25 turnovers gained. The defense ranked in the Top 25 in the nation in interceptions (14th), turnovers gained (24th) and tackles for loss (13th), and in the top 35 of seven statistical categories in 2015.

CLOSING 2015 STRONG
USF finished the 2015 regular season winning seven of its last eight regular season games, finishing 6-2 in American Conference play and coming within a Temple loss in its final regular season game of playing in the inaguaral AAC Championship game. USF defeated every team in the American East Division in 2015, going 5-0, including routs of No. 21 Temple (44-23), Cincinnati (65 27) and UCF (44-3) to close out the regular season. USF outscored opponents 175-70 and averaged 503 ypg in winning its final four regular season games.

RECORD SETTING
USF’s offensive explosion in 2015 helped the program set 34 team and individual records on the year, including 16 team records and 18 individual marks.

Notable team marks included: total yards (5,741), beating the old mark by 358; rushing yards (3,205), shattering the old mark by 769; total TD (54), TD Passes (26); fewest turnovers (15); points in a half (51 vs. Cincinnati) and points in a conference game (65 vs. Cincinnati).

Notable individual marks included: the season rushing record (1,381 by Mack); season QB rushing record (991 by Flowers); 100-yard games (9 by Mack); yards per carry (6.6 by Mack); receiving yards (822 by Adams); receiving TD (9 by Adams); touchdown passes (22 by Flowers) and all-purpose yards in a game (281 by D’Ernest Johnson).

This will not be an easy opponent. I hope the Huskies can do better than the last two times they faced USF.

Guys, SDSU and USF are easy out of conference opponents, nothing compared to the gauntlet that is the MAC. push overs really.

(05-02-2016 06:33 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  Guys, SDSU and USF are easy out of conference opponents, nothing compared to the gauntlet that is the MAC. push overs really.

Haha MD may be batshit crazy, but he's our batshit crazy

Man i seriously cannot wait for the day NIU gets an AAC invite JUST to hear his reactions

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(05-02-2016 07:15 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(05-02-2016 06:33 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  Guys, SDSU and USF are easy out of conference opponents, nothing compared to the gauntlet that is the MAC. push overs really.

Haha MD may be batshit crazy, but he's our batshit crazy

Man i seriously cannot wait for the day NIU gets an AAC invite JUST to hear his reactions

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I don't have anything against the AAC at all, there are some quality programs in that conference just as there are quality programs in the MAC. There are also many bottom 20 programs in that conference just as there are some in the MAC. The thing I took issue with over the past year is the statement that a move to the AAC would somehow benefit NIU. Its a comparable conference to the MAC, but the only exception is the arrow is pointing down on future trends.

The MAC is much closer to the Sunbelt than it is to the AAC!

Haha, I won't argue which G5 conference is the best and all that, because we all agree except one person on this board. In a totally non bias way, meaning no disrespect to anyone, I would rank them:

1.AAC (not even close)
2. MWC
Tie 3: MAC
Tie 3: CUSA
4: Sun Belt

Not taking the bait. This is like the 1 person who votes not guilty in the jury room. Let's just call it a hung jury and go home.

(05-02-2016 09:08 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  Haha, I won't argue which G5 conference is the best and all that, because we all agree except one person on this board. In a totally non bias way, meaning no disrespect to anyone, I would rank them:

1.AAC (not even close)
2. MWC
Tie 3: MAC
Tie 3: CUSA
4: Sun Belt

Besides having the Sun Belt and CUSA last , which I think we would both agree, I cannot say you are wrong no matter which order you have AAC, MWC, and MAC, but to say "not even close" is just plain silly. They are extremely comparable.

Toledo beat the Sun Belt Champ(Ark State), MAC Champ(BGSU), Runner-up AAC(#24 Temple), #3 SEC West(#18 Arkansas) and finished in a 6-2 MAC logjam. Don't underestimate the MAC. NIU's close loss to OSU also bears that out.

(05-02-2016 11:11 PM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  Toledo beat the Sun Belt Champ(Ark State), MAC Champ(BGSU), Runner-up AAC(#24 Temple), #3 SEC West(#18 Arkansas) and finished in a 6-2 MAC logjam. Don't underestimate the MAC. NIU's close loss to OSU also bears that out.

No one has ever said the top 2, 3 if you count WMU aren't good. But the conference as a whole is garbage.

(05-02-2016 11:11 PM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  Toledo beat the Sun Belt Champ(Ark State), MAC Champ(BGSU), Runner-up AAC(#24 Temple), #3 SEC West(#18 Arkansas) and finished in a 6-2 MAC logjam. Don't underestimate the MAC. NIU's close loss to OSU also bears that out.

AAC beat #12 Coaches/#13 AP Ole Miss (who beat #2 and eventual national champion Alabama on the road, that was ranked as the #3 team in the nation entering October, and who finished the year in the Top 10 in both polls)

#9 Florida St. (Ranked as high as #6, and was #8 Coaches/#9 AP when Houston spanked them. Finished #14 in the final poll)

And the most inpressively beat the MAC Champion on the road.

Much better resume.

(05-02-2016 11:14 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  

(05-02-2016 11:11 PM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  Toledo beat the Sun Belt Champ(Ark State), MAC Champ(BGSU), Runner-up AAC(#24 Temple), #3 SEC West(#18 Arkansas) and finished in a 6-2 MAC logjam. Don't underestimate the MAC. NIU's close loss to OSU also bears that out.

No one has ever said the top 2, 3 if you count WMU aren't good. But the conference as a whole is garbage.

For about the past fifteen years or so, there have been times that the MAC has been relevant. NIU, Miami, Bowling Green, Toledo, Kent, CMU, and WMU have all produced successful teams. The MAC is a minor league program and will never be on a par with the Power Five, but to call it "garbage" is a bit unfair.

(05-03-2016 12:39 AM)VegasHuskie Wrote:  

(05-02-2016 11:14 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  

(05-02-2016 11:11 PM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  Toledo beat the Sun Belt Champ(Ark State), MAC Champ(BGSU), Runner-up AAC(#24 Temple), #3 SEC West(#18 Arkansas) and finished in a 6-2 MAC logjam. Don't underestimate the MAC. NIU's close loss to OSU also bears that out.

No one has ever said the top 2, 3 if you count WMU aren't good. But the conference as a whole is garbage.

For about the past fifteen years or so, there have been times that the MAC has been relevant. NIU, Miami, Bowling Green, Toledo, Kent, CMU, and WMU have all produced successful teams. The MAC is a minor league program and will never be on a par with the Power Five, but to call it "garbage" is a bit unfair.

Exactly if Dogpound claims the MAC is garbage, by definition one has to claim AAC is garbage.

Hasn't the AAC produced two BCS bowl champions in it's 4 year history? The MAC has had one "Big Bowl" game in it's 70 year history, which NIU lost.