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2nd Half of FB season was awful - Look how bad it was


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The Bulls football team actually didn't play bad in the first half of the season but the second half of the season was awful despite playing much easier opponents.  Below is the minutes USF played while behind, while tied or while leading their games this season.

 

Opponent                           Time Behind                                  Time Tied                             Time Ahead

 

W. CAROLINA                 31 MIN 02 SEC                             9 MIN 01 SEC                      19 MIN 57 SEC

 

MARYLAND                     21 MIN 34 SEC                           20 MIN 48 SEC                      17 MIN 38 SEC

 

NC STATE                       46 MIN 42 SEC                           13 MIN 18 SEC                        0 MIN   0 SEC

 

UCONN                             0 MIN   0 SEC                              3 MIN 38 SEC                      56 MIN 22 SEC

 

@ WI                                25 MIN 43 SEC                           28 MIN 20 SEC                        5 MIN 57 SEC

 

ECU                                 11 MIN 42 SEC                           14 MIN  07 SEC                      34 MIN 11 SEC

 

@ TULSA                         46 MIN 50 SEC                             6 MIN 57 SEC                        6 MIN 13 SEC

 

@ CINCY                         57 MIN 05 SEC                              2 MIN 55 SEC                        0 MIN   0 SEC

 

HOUSTON                       47 MIN 54 SEC                             12 MIN 06 SEC                       0 MIN   0 SEC

 

@ SMU                            43 MIN 07 SEC                             16 MIN 49 SEC                        0 MIN   4 SEC

 

@ MEMPHIS                   49 MIN 29 SEC                               7 MIN 23 SEC                       3 MIN    8 SEC

 

UCF                                 40 MIN 38 SEC                              19 MIN 22 SEC                       0 MIN   0 SEC

 

 

SEASON TOTAL           421 MIN 46 SEC                            154 MIN 44 SEC                   143 MIN 30 SEC

 

LAST 6 GAMES             285 MIN 03 SEC                              65 MIN 32 SEC                       9 MIN 25 SEC

 

 

 

 

In the last 6 games USF had the lead for 9 minutes and 25 seconds out of a possible 360 minutes despite playing Tulsa, Cincinnati, Houston, SMU, Memphis and UCF.  Do you think CWT lost his team in the second half of the season?  They certainly didn't improve as the year went on.

 

 

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Well remember what Willie said: the first half of the season didn't count. It was all about the second half.

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I don't think we actually played better. My theory is that those better teams treated us the way we treat an FAMU. I am willing to bet that Maryland, Wisconsin and ECU spent minimal time preparing for us and mentally the teams didn't get up for us. Once those teams woke up and made adjustments they all basically shut us down.

On the other hand, once we started to play conference games or teams of similar quality they prepared and came out strong.

I am willing to bet that if we played UCONN later in the year they would have beaten us. Diaco is a smarter coach. We also got lucky with their QB situation that game.

We were closer to being a 1 win team this year than we were to being a bowl eligible team. Thank god for Marlon Mack in game 1. Maybe even closer to 0 wins without his breakout debut.

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