FUTURE USF BULLS SCHEDULES: http://gousfbulls.com/news/2012/1/17/611637.aspx
Cardinals to visit Tampa in the 2024 season
BYU, UMass & San Jose State dates moved
TAMPA, JAN. 18, 2018 – USF Director of Athletics Mark Harlan today announced the scheduling of a three-game football series with Louisville set to begin in 2022.
The three-game series with the Cardinals will see the Bulls visiting 55,000-seat Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium on Sept. 24, 2022 and Sept. 19, 2026. Louisville will come to Raymond James Stadium on Sept. 21, 2024.
“The USF and Louisville programs have featured some of the most exciting players in college football over the last few seasons,” Harlan said. “We are excited to have Louisville returning to Raymond James Stadium and to add a three-game series with an exciting, top-level opponent with which we share a great deal of history.”
USF also moved previously announced game dates with BYU, UMass and San Jose State. The Bulls and BYU will now begin a two-game series in Tampa on Oct. 12, 2019, moving the Cougars’ trip to Tampa up three years from the original 2022 date. USF visits BYU in 2021. USF rescheduled a 2017 home game with UMass, which was cancelled due to Hurricane Irma, for Oct. 22, 2022 in Tampa. The Bulls play at UMass in 2018. USF also moved a home game with San Jose State back three years to Sept. 9, 2023. The return game of a two-game series with the Spartans, which began in 2017, was originally slated for 2020.
The addition of three games vs. ACC opponent Louisville gives the Bulls nine scheduled non-conference games vs. Power 6 opponents over the next seven seasons (through 2024) in addition to a pair of games vs. BYU (2019 & 2021). The Bulls will begin a two-game series with Georgia Tech (2018 & 2019) in Raymond James Stadium and complete a two-game series with Illinois with a game at Soldier Field in Chicago in 2018. Future schedules also include Texas (2020, 2022 & 2024) and Wisconsin (2018).
USF has played 11 non-conference games vs. Power 6 opponents in five seasons since joining the American Athletic Conference in 2013. Among the non-conference Power 6 opponents previously faced over that span were Florida State (2015, 2016), Illinois (2017), Maryland (2014, 2015), Miami (2013), Michigan State (2013), N.C. State (2014), Syracuse (2015, 2016) and Wisconsin (2014).
Led by 2016 Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson and fourth-year head coach Bobby Petrino, Louisville posted an 8-5 record in 2017 and reached its eighth straight bowl game, falling to Mississippi State, 31-27, in the TaxSlayer Bowl. USF head coach Charlie Strong previously led the Louisville program for four seasons (2010-2013), guiding the Cardinals to four bowl games, including an 11-2 campaign and Sugar Bowl victory in 2012, and a 12-1 record and a victory in the Russell Athletic Bowl in 2013. Louisville has made 22 bowl appearances overall.
USF and Louisville have met on the football field 11 times, which includes every season between 2003 and 2013, with the Cardinals holding a slim 6-5 series lead. The two programs where both members of the Big East Conference and shared membership in The American for one season in 2013. Louisville has won the last three meetings in the series, including a 34-3 victory by the No. 16-ranked Cardinals in the last meeting in 2013 in Raymond James Stadium. Strong led the Cardinals in that game. USF won five of the first eight meetings in the series.