There’s something especially depressing about looking at the college football landscape in the Sunshine State this season and realizing that before USF’s 41-38 loss to Navy on Saturday, it was actually the Bulls carrying the torch for our once-proud pigskin peninsula.
Those words didn’t even look right on the page then, and they look even stranger now. Yet here we are, staring at a world where the Bulls had the state’s strongest College Football Playoff hopes heading into the weekend while the three traditional giants of Florida football stumble around like they’ve misplaced the map to relevance.