Chop Shop Show: 07.22.24

Hosts: EZDZ, Dade City, & AKA Ruff

Guests: Aamaris Brown, Rico Watson - USF Football

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TAMPA, FEB. 29, 2024 – Coming off a 45-0 rout of Syracuse in the Boca Raton Bowl and a dramatic turnaround in its first season under head coach Alex Golesh, the University of South Florida learned its path for the 2024 USF Football Season presented by Tampa General Hospital as the American Athletic Conference announced schedules for all 14 teams in the league on Thursday.

2024 Football ScheduleWith non-conference clashes vs. Bethune-Cookman (Aug. 31) and Miami (Sept. 21) in Raymond James Stadium and road dates at Alabama (Sept. 7) and at Southern Mississippi (Sept. 14) already announced, Thursday the Bulls learned the conference road that awaits as USF seeks the program's first-ever conference championship.

Kickoff times and television designations for the first three weeks of the season, as well as the season's weeknight games, will be finalized by June 1. The rest of the schedule will fall under the customary 12-day and six-day selection processes.

Coming off an emphatic bowl win and a 7-6 season that marked a six-win improvement, the best turnaround in program history and the second-best nationally in 2023, the Bulls will open the 2024 AAC campaign with a test on the road at Tulane (Sept. 28). The Green Wave has been a participant in the last two conference championship games and won the 2022 AAC championship. Tulane went 11-3 last year (8-0 AAC), falling to SMU in the championship game, and are 15-1 the last two years in AAC regular season games.

The following week, USF will get the first of two bye weeks on the season (the second coming in Week 9) before returning for a Friday night, primetime clash with 2019 AAC champion Memphis on Oct. 11 in Raymond James Stadium. The Tigers went 10-3 (6-2 AAC) last year and downed Iowa State, 36-26, in the Liberty Bowl. Memphis has won two AAC titles and made three appearances in the AAC Championship game.

The Memphis game will mark the first of at least two weekday, primetime games for the Bulls in 2024. USF will also play at FAU on Friday, Nov. 1 and the Bulls' final AAC date of the season will be a television network selection to be played at Rice on either Friday, Nov. 29, or Saturday, Nov. 30. The final date will be announced no later than Oct. 14. The Black Friday selection will come from a pool of three games, including UAB-Charlotte, Navy-East Carolina or South Florida-Rice.

USF Homecoming has been set for an Oct. 19 clash with UAB in Raymond James Stadium. The Bulls will also play home games vs. Navy (Nov. 9) and Tulsa (Nov. 23) and travel to Charlotte (Nov. 16).

The 2024 season will be the second in which The American has 14 teams under its banner, and the first with Army West Point as a football-playing member. While Army and Navy will play in the same league for the first time, the Dec. 14 Army-Navy Game at MetLife Stadium will not count as a conference game.

Each of the 14 teams in The American will play eight conference games in 2024. The top two teams in the final single-division regular-season standings will meet Friday, Dec. 6 in the 10th American Athletic Conference Football Championship. That game, which has been broadcast on ABC in each of the last nine years, will be televised in primetime.

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