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Message: [QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1499352, member: 2265"] [B][SIZE=5]South Florida Saturday October 10th at South Florida 3:30 PM; CBS Sports Network [/SIZE] Summary[/B] Won-Lost and Sagarin Ratings: Syracuse 3-1 65 A=70.00 USF 1-3 110 A=59.92 It won't get much better for us than this game. USF is a young team with a new offense (sound familiar?). Head coach Willie Taggart installed a new uptempo spread offense this year. Junior starter Mike White lost his job to sophomore Quentin Flowers (3 star dual threat 6-0 217). White, a pro-style QB who runs like Ryan Nassib, transferred to Western Kentucky. [B]Rushing[/B] USF will try and beat us with their legs. They have a young stable of backs with 3 sophomores and a junior. In all 4 games, USF has rushed 64% of the time for an average of 210 ypg. Against FBS teams they have averaged 4.4 ypa for 189 yards per game. Not exactly LSU. [B]Passing[/B] They have had trouble with their passing game. Versus FBS opponents they have averaged 129 yards per game passing with 4 TDs and 4 INTs. They have completed 54.2% of their attempts for an average of 5.3 yards per attempt. They don't (or can't) throw it deep, which means our secondary, undoubtedly our weakest squad, may not be tested. USF ranks 10th of 12 in the AAC in passing and 5th in total defense for all games. Versus FBS opponents they have averaged 16 point per game on offense and have given up 31 on defense. While they played Memphis tough, they really just played about their average game scoring 17 points and giving up 24. It looks to me as if Memphis played down to USF. [B]Completed Games (Sagarin in parenthesis)[/B] Sep. 5 (244) Florida A&M W 51-3 Sep. 12 at (16) Florida State L 14-34 Sep. 19 at (87) Maryland L 17-35 Oct. 2 (51) Memphis L 17-24 [B]NCAA Reported Injuries October 4, 2015 Date Pos Player Injury Status [/B] 10/04/15 WR A.J. Legree Foot "?" Saturday vs. Syracuse 10/04/15 WR Alex Mut Undisclosed "?" Saturday vs. Syracuse 10/04/15 LB Josh Black Undisclosed "?" Saturday vs. Syracuse 08/27/15 DB Hassan Childs ACL out for season 08/27/15 WR Stanley Clerveaux ACL out for season [B]Penalties[/B] USF averages 7.3 penalties per game for 65.8 yards. [B]Turnovers[/B] USF has an even TO ratio with 5 lost and 5 gained. All interceptions. [B]3rd Down Conversions[/B] USF has struggled on 3rd down converting only 25% (all games) and 22.73% (FBS). [B]4th Down Conversions[/B] USF does better on 4th down conversion (not surprising as they are shorter) with 50% (all games and FBS). [B]Red Zone Conversions[/B] USF is pretty good when they reach the RZ. Against all opponents they have scored TDs 8 out of 13 attempts and 3 of 5 FGs. Not much drop off versus FBS at 4 of 7 TDs and 2 of 3 FGs. All in all, we should beat this team. A loss would be very bad. That said, with two young teams anything is possible from a low scoring rock fight to a blow out. Shafer should remember to bring enough rocks. [/QUOTE]

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