Welcome to our new offseason feature, in which we’re counting down the top ten plays of the 2016 USF football season. Today, we start with number 10.
The USF fanbase approached the Cincinnati game, the Bulls’ American Athletic Conference opener, with a mindset somewhere between wariness and sheer terror. The Bulls’ defense had just been gashed to death by Dalvin Cook and Florida State, and a road game on a short week against a team that many assumed to be USF’s biggest competitor in the AAC East seemed like a huge red flag.
The Bulls wound up cruising to a 45-20 victory, but it was much nervier than the final score let on.