Homecoming games are supposed to be a celebration for the home team, but it hasn’t worked out that way for USF in recent years.
The Bulls are 0-2 in homecoming games during the Alex Golesh era and overall have lost five straight before the old alums. You have to go back to 2019 to find a happy homecoming for the Bulls. That year, USF beat BYU 27-23 with a 13-point fourth-quarter rally.
Golesh’s first homecoming game as the Bulls’ head coach was in 2023, and it was a disaster. The Bulls lost to Florida Atlantic 56-14, which was bad enough. But with 6:44 left and the Owls leading by what eventually was the final score, head coach Tom Herman ordered an onside kick…