USF in Sports Illustrated this week... on the cover, sort of...

[Jim Johnson]

Bulls Featured In Next Sports Illustrated

Courtesy: USF           Release: 10/16/2007

TAMPA, Fla. -- The University of South Florida football team will be featured in the next issue of Sports Illustrated, which will hit newsstands tomorrow.

While New England Patriot Tom Brady is not on the cover, USF is highlighted with a ribbon text box along the lower left hand corner.Courtesy Sports Illustrated

The story is written by Phil Taylor and is titled, "Fresh Juice in Florida."

Below is paragraph from the article:

"Those results opened the door a bit wider for South Florida, which won at Auburn and beat West Virginia when the Mountaineers were No. 5 in the nation, to do what would have been considered all but impossible a few weeks ago -- slip into the BCS championship game. If Appalachian State can walk into the Big House and stun fifth-ranked Michigan, if Stanford, with its paper-thin roster, can prove to prodigiously talented USC that games aren't won with a depth chart, why should it be a shocker that USF, a program that didn't even have offices for its coaching staff three years ago, has a realistic chance to play for the national title? "It's just been that kind of year," says Southern Cal coach Pete Carroll. "You can take the concept of who's a favorite and who's an underdog and throw it out the window. You don't have to be a big-name school to win; you just have to play good football."

USF is also scheduled to be featured in USA Today on Thursday and in ESPN The Magazine's Oct. 24 issue.

[Matt]

this coming week's Sports Illustrated will have a story about the USF BULLs.

[USFKT]

already a thread about it: http://thebullspen.com/index.php?topic=40330.0

[lotsofbull99]

the kiss of death, we are doomed!

[mikebeau]

the kiss of death, we are doomed!

No worries.  It's not a cover. 

Tom Brady will break his leg next week, though.

[ChiTownBull]

Hope its not the kiss of death...remember si was in Tampa to cover lvill in 2005

[nobullaboutit]

  LOL,  USF is defying all odds!  Just like one of the articles said, "God has a plan".  We have broken a lot of records, curses whatever and we are still alive so that is one more to add to our list!

[USF-PMR]

If we win 3 more straight - after cincy - we will get a full cover w/Leavitt and all the Players.

[Kyle]

SI had photographers at the game this past weekend.

[BullGrad95]

SI will destroy us!!