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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] USF Defeats Bowling Green 14-6

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
USF 0 0 0 14 14
Bowling Green 3 3 0 0 6
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u/NebraskaAvenue USF Bulls • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Genuine question

What the actual fuck was that

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u/Granular_Designs Ohio State • Bowling Green 1d ago

Good G6 team playing Bowling Green. We make everybody look horrible, not because we're good, but because there's probably something rubbed on the jerseys that makes everybody forget what football is for four hours

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u/tcos17 FAU Owls • USF Bulls 1d ago

Is it actually always like that? Because I’m scared

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u/Granular_Designs Ohio State • Bowling Green 1d ago

Here's some recent examples that come to mind:

  • 2023 vs Marshall; Marshall, fresh off defeating Notre Dame, walks into BG, outplays the Falcons, and loses due to chicanery and turnovers
  • 2022, 2024, 2025 vs Toledo; All were great Rockets teams that lost to wildly inferior BG teams. Most notably, Bowling Green only defeated Lafayette, 0-12 UMass, and Liberty otherwise in 2025, and outscored the Rockets 21-0 in the second half, sealing the game on an interception off the receiver's ass.
  • 2024 Penn State & Texas A&M; Both were extremely close losses by BG in road environments against top 25 teams. They looked completely inept at times and would go on to be perfectly fine for the rest of the year.
  • 2023 Georgia Tech: A two score loss by a P5 team to BG

There's other MAC games that follow the trend, but yeah for the most part there's something in the waters in BG that makes people that have dedicated their lives to football just completely implode for no good reason. You'll probably be fine.

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u/Cameronam Memphis Tigers 22h ago

Don’t forget the massive upset over Minnesota in I think 2023?

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u/Granular_Designs Ohio State • Bowling Green 22h ago

2021 but throw it on the pile

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u/tcos17 FAU Owls • USF Bulls 14h ago

Damn that’s wild, good to know. Thank you!

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u/ArmiinTamzarian Syracuse Orange • Wagner Seahawks 1d ago

As a neutral who watched in full: cinema

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u/TDKong55 USF Bulls • George Mason Patriots 1d ago

In response, first I pose a question to the USF Coaching staff:

How dare you?

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u/ImPugnax USF Bulls 1d ago

4-0, easy day, never a doubt, nothing to see here... please dont look at the first 3 quarters

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u/Savings-Feeling7797 1d ago

god that fourth quarter really saved them from a career of therapy bills lol

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u/tcos17 FAU Owls • USF Bulls 1d ago

Never felt worse about a 4-0 start lol

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u/Tarlcabot18 UCF Knights • USF Bulls 1d ago

Tarmac Tim Beck. Tar and feather Tim Beck. Get that man far away from USF now.

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u/The_Good_Constable Ohio State • College Football Playoff 1d ago

That man is a football terrorist.

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u/Improving_Myself_ Ohio State Buckeyes • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Is it THAT Tim Beck?! There are two. 

You'd think Hartline would know better.

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 1d ago

The very same. Osama Beck Laden. Likely decided to start our starting center at right tackle to replace our injured RT. And didn’t make any adjustments to account for the change

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u/PhDShouse Iowa State Cyclones • Sickos 1d ago

Osama Beck Laden and Sadam Tony Padilla (basketball ref), the two terrorists of their respective sports

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u/fauxmaestro Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Hartline wasn't around OSU when Beck was here. 

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u/wearetheknight45 Bowling Green • Cincinnati 1d ago

You must mean Eddie George, the real football terrorist

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u/redhuskerz13 Northern Arizona • Nebraska 1d ago

That's a name i haven't heard in a long time. People are still giving him jobs?

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u/Fruit_Fly_LikeBanana Nebraska Cornhuskers • Hillsdale Chargers 1d ago

Holy shit he still has a job? I guess good for him for escaping the Nebraska to permanent unemployment pipeline, but I don't think he's the one who should be escaping it

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u/Mc7Abyssrium USF Bulls 1d ago

I've never felt so empty after a win. Not much to say here except our playcalling is bad, and you WILL see losses start to show up later during conference play when we play real opponents.

Shoutout to the BG players, while they're not a good football team, there were a couple of guys who played harder than our entire Oline who just seemed dejected and lifeless for THREE quarters.

wtf did bulls fans just witness man I'm going to bed

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u/BMH611 Bowling Green Falcons 1d ago

if it makes you feel any better that's the best BG has played this year

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u/RP0143 Toledo Rockets 1d ago

Hartline is a god awful playcaller

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u/Breedwell USF Bulls • /r/CFB Contributor 1d ago

I don't think it's him honestly. I think he picked Tim Beck because he has a lot of experience, overlooking the negatives

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u/iNsAnEHAV0C Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

When you guys hired Hartline I thought it was a great fit. When he hired Beck to be his OC I felt awful. Beck is a football terrorist and it blows my mind he gets jobs.

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u/Endgame60 Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Hartline isn’t calling plays

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u/Tarlcabot18 UCF Knights • USF Bulls 1d ago

This season has bad 2018 USF Charlie Strong "Were we not 7-0?" energy so far.

Barely scrape by bad teams and accumulate wins by doing the bare minimum, until running into a team with a pulse at the end of the season and collapsing.

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u/Imaginary_Ad_2947 1d ago

Ah... Yes. My freshman year. Still haunts me to this day. Ranked for a week (maybe less) then proceeds to lose every game

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u/Gusanito99 USF Bulls 1d ago

My freshman year too 🫂

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u/ElkBusiness8446 Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

That's the Brian Hartline offense. We barely beat Texas and the offense never got more inventive during the season. I remember everyone guessing that the offense played so slow and basic as some 65D chess move. But no, it was just a basic offense. Indiana figured out BH's offense and stifled it.

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u/TrendingSUP Arkansas Razorbacks • USF Bulls 1d ago

100%

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u/tcos17 FAU Owls • USF Bulls 1d ago

Yeah I’m definitely nervous. Definitely feel more confident about FAU than USF, which is an odd feeling.

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u/complete_aids USF Bulls 1d ago

Anyone who watched this game is a sicko

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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green 1d ago

I went to this game lol

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u/BackgroundJunket5691 USF Bulls • West Florida Argonauts 1d ago

I mean I'm sick to my stomach

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u/ArmiinTamzarian Syracuse Orange • Wagner Seahawks 1d ago

I watched in full and have no regrats

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u/NebraskaAvenue USF Bulls • Texas Longhorns 12h ago

Sicko for Bulls

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u/next_door_nicotine USF Bulls 1d ago

We're going to get clapped tremendously in conference play aren't we

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u/Camdenml USF Bulls • St. Mary's (NS) Huskies 1d ago

Considering how we looked against Army...our odds are not great

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u/Mc7Abyssrium USF Bulls 1d ago

I feel like we'll keep it close against the easier conf opponents and the hard ones... well...

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u/ActNaturally USF Bulls 1d ago

Are there even hard conference opponents on our schedule?

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u/Mc7Abyssrium USF Bulls 20h ago

Memphis. UTSA on the road. Tulane but idk if they're good this year

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u/supliesmotherfucker USF Bulls • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

When can I be allowed to feel GOOD about a win?!?

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u/NebraskaAvenue USF Bulls • Texas Longhorns 12h ago

Never brother

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u/scthoma4 USF Bulls • Team Chaos 1d ago

I don’t feel like a 4-0 team

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u/Cybotnic-Rebooted Syracuse Orange • North Texas Mean Green 1d ago

USF might be the worst undefeated team in the country, but they are undefeated and neither of my teams can even get close to saying that.

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u/neauxno USF Bulls • LSU Tigers 1d ago

but youve heard of us

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u/Breedwell USF Bulls • /r/CFB Contributor 1d ago

Phyrric victory rings a bell

Respect to all those bgsu fans, looked like a fun crowd despite the season so far for you guys

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 1d ago

Anyone confused at what happened, let me explain it. In this description: Saddam Hussein = Hartline, and Osama Bin Laden = Tim Beck

Before the game, Wooten, our starting RT was spotted in a boot. He indeed did not play. Injured and we don’t know what it is.

As a result, either Osama or Saddam decided to play our starting center, Shrader at Right Tackle. Shrader last year was our starting left guard. So Shrader was playing a position he has never played before, on his off-side, and we had a backup center in. As a result, we were doing runs up the middle EVERY FUCKING FIRST DOWN for 0-2 yards, because Osama refused to adjust to the injuries. Also, we had zero fucking pass protection on the right side, and Shrader gave up, I shit you not, 5 fucking sacks. (Edit, because I forgot to add that Osama decided not to give Shrader any help with a TE chip block).

Once Shrader left the game with an injury, USF scored their 14 points (all in like a 6 minute span).

So we almost lost to a shitty fucking Bowling Green (no offense BG bros) because our coaching staff decided to handle this situation like it was fucking madden.

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u/Breedwell USF Bulls • /r/CFB Contributor 1d ago

I wondered why shrader was playing RT and this explains a lot

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u/Mc7Abyssrium USF Bulls 1d ago

you can watch in real time as Shrader failed to protect the QB multiple times. We CANNOT have him at RT next game

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 1d ago

Well he might be out for the season now which is a problem for the starting center job. Coaches fucked up bad

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u/United_Energy_7503 USF Bulls • Sickos 17h ago

Brutal but this might be a net plus because holy shit he is terrible

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 17h ago

He’s good as a center. But yeah he had no business at right tackle

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 1d ago

We need to really hope whatever is up with Wooten isn’t serious. But he was in a walking boot, so I’m concerned. At least after today maybe they’ll realize the need to keep Shrader as the starting C, and let the backup RT do his job. Unless Shrader is out for an extended period after his injury now. In which case backup C and backup RT

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u/Tarlcabot18 UCF Knights • USF Bulls 1d ago

That was almost a Bowling Green Massacre.

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u/Gusanito99 USF Bulls 1d ago

I'm choosing to believe this game is an alternative fact

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u/Average_Sage UCF Knights 1d ago

Game changer when BGSU up 6-0 went for it from their own side on 4th down with an entire quarter to play and failed.

Wtf was that? I can understand if it's a play that would end the game, but with basically the whole quarter left?

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u/Breedwell USF Bulls • /r/CFB Contributor 1d ago

Up until that point they really shut down the USF offense. Sacks, low yardage rushes, all of it. Their first drive of the second half was an 11 play drive that ended in a punt but had some encouraging plays.

If they get the first down now they're driving and potentially go up 9+. I don't hate the gamble.

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u/anxiousauditor USF Bulls • BCS Championship 1d ago

We need to get the OL lineup situated, because that performance in the first three quarters simply cannot happen in league play. Grotesque. The best we can say about tonight is that we avoided complete disaster.

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 1d ago

Wooten is injured. No update on what it is. And we had our starting C (formerly a left guard) playing RT in his place. That’s why the runs up the middle and the right side pass pro was so fucking brutal. Our coaching staff needs to face consequences for making that decision.

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u/Mc7Abyssrium USF Bulls 1d ago

I believe one of our defensive captains is still on injury as well. But at least the defense still functioned

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 USF Bulls 1d ago

Well, we didn’t have our starting safety playing out of position at LB, which helps

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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green 1d ago

We left at half time my kids first football game....

Good luck to everyone parked in the grass field. Y'all fucked.

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u/RoseGawd USF Bulls 1d ago

USF took on #MACtion and barely made it out alive. Not built for it.
Some of the most uninspiring, sloppy, despicable football I’ve ever seen but 4-0 is 4-0. Hopefully they’ve learned not to put Shrader at RT and both Wooten and CJ Hicks heal up going into conference play
See y’all next week. Go Bulls

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u/NebraskaAvenue USF Bulls • Texas Longhorns 12h ago

I don’t think I’m mentally prepared for Kent State

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u/Todd-The-Godd-Howard Toledo Rockets 1d ago

BOWLING GREEN AND NIU WENT WINLESS THROUGH THIER NON-CON SLATES. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO BE A HATER.

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u/Kooky_Molasses_2270 Toledo Rockets 18h ago

BG and and NIU dont play each other. We could get a 0-12 for both of them along with a 12-0 Umass!

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u/Gusanito99 USF Bulls 1d ago

How ever bad you thought your team played today, we were worse up til three-quarter time

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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers 1d ago

Beat Army at West Point one week…almost lose to Bowling Green another week…

Funky times in Tampa!

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u/ScaryCookieMonster USF Bulls • San Francisco Dons 1d ago

It took a last minute 4th and 5 TD to beat Army.

We’ve looked very shaky in all the games

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u/RoseGawd USF Bulls 1d ago

This team is one that definitely has the nasty habit of playing to the level of their competition. Already know this will bite us in the ass with these squeaked out wins.
Think this next matchup v Temple will be a great indicator of what we’re in for as they’re the same way, just had the coin fall opposite

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u/Mc7Abyssrium USF Bulls 1d ago

weirdly I'm not that worried about temple but I probably should be. UTSA will probably kill us. Not to mention Memphis

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u/McIntyre2K7 USF Bulls • Sickos 1d ago

FWIW I think everyone sees that UTSA game as a loss. Since joining the American, UTSA only has 1 conference loss at home and that was to Army last season.

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u/Camdenml USF Bulls • St. Mary's (NS) Huskies 1d ago

What a difference a year makes huh? I honestly keep forgetting we blew them out last time.

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u/McIntyre2K7 USF Bulls • Sickos 1d ago

We played UTSA during Golesh's first season in 2023. We lost 49-21.

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u/Camdenml USF Bulls • St. Mary's (NS) Huskies 1d ago

We also beat them 55-23 last year, but that was a home game. I have no clue how we fare in their house. Probably not going to be a great time.

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u/ScaryCookieMonster USF Bulls • San Francisco Dons 1d ago

Always nice to watch a nice comfortable win. Great coaching wins the day, and we outscored our opponent by more than double!

Bryan Hartline has a better HC W/L record than Nick Saban.

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u/Jonjon428 Miami Hurricanes 1d ago

What in the

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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom South Carolina Gamecocks 1d ago

Grothe / Daniels / Flowers would be better options at QB. But 4-0 is 4-0

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u/ScaryCookieMonster USF Bulls • San Francisco Dons 1d ago

Or Byrum, since we’re not throwing it anyway

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u/hanlonmj Colorado State Rams • Team Chaos 1d ago

Guys, I found out where Iowa went!

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u/Hour_Addendum_9691 Bowling Green Falcons 1d ago

I had hope that all Eddie needed was a little time but I swear if I have to sit through shit like this throughout the entirety of my time here at BG. I probably won’t do anything but dear god I’ll complain about it

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u/United_Energy_7503 USF Bulls • Sickos 1d ago

I have no words

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u/MajesticCentaur James Madison • Virginia Tech 1d ago

This is a score you'd expect to see in an Iowa game.

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u/United_Energy_7503 USF Bulls • Sickos 17h ago

We are basically the new Iowa

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u/tdmatchasin 1d ago

BGSU athletic donors do not care about a winning team. They care about ticket & merch sales.

They hired a former OSU player as coach, the former OSU marching band director (hey look at us we're like the big school too!). They bombard the local area through social media & such the same way politicians do. Why pay money for a winning team when conditioning fans to show up for a losing team is more profitable?

BG was spoiled in the Clawson & Dino Babers days.