May 21, 2025
Athletics Senior Writer
Football has taken Kodi Burns, USF's new assistant head coach, to some unimaginably exciting places.
For the Auburn Tigers, he scored the opening touchdown in the 2010 Bowl Championship Series national-championship game, catching a 35-yard pass from Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton.
Six months later, he was selected to present an Auburn helmet and a No. 1 jersey to President Barack Obama at the White House. "As soon as he was elected, I remember telling people that one of my goals in life was to meet him,'' Burns said then.