The South Florida Bulls football team represents the University of South Florida in American football. [1] [2]
Year | Coach | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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Jim Leavitt (I-AA Independent)(1997–2000) | |||||||||
1997 | Jim Leavitt | 5–6 | |||||||
1998 | Jim Leavitt | 8–3 | 22 | ||||||
1999 | Jim Leavitt | 7–4 | 23 | ||||||
2000 | Jim Leavitt | 7–4 | |||||||
Jim Leavitt(I-A Independent)(2001–2002) | |||||||||
2001 | Jim Leavitt | 8–3 | |||||||
2002 | Jim Leavitt | 9–2 | |||||||
Jim Leavitt(Conference USA)(2003–2004) | |||||||||
2003 | Jim Leavitt | 7–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd | |||||
2004 | Jim Leavitt | 4–7 | 3–5 | T–6th | |||||
Jim Leavitt(Big East)(2005–2009) | |||||||||
2005 | Jim Leavitt | 6–6 | 4–3 | T–3rd | L Meineke Car Care | ||||
2006 | Jim Leavitt | 9–4 | 4–3 | T–4th | W PapaJohns.com | ||||
2007 | Jim Leavitt | 9–4 | 4–3 | T–3rd | L Sun | ||||
2008 | Jim Leavitt | 8–5 | 2–5 | 6th | W St. Petersburg | ||||
2009 | Jim Leavitt | 8–5 | 3–4 | T–4th | W International | ||||
Skip Holtz (Big East)(2010–2012) | |||||||||
2010 | Skip Holtz | 8–5 | 3–4 | T–5th | W Meineke Car Care | ||||
2011 | Skip Holtz | 5–7 | 1–6 | T–7th | |||||
2012 | Skip Holtz | 3–9 | 1–6 | T–8th | |||||
Willie Taggart (American Athletic)(2013–2016) | |||||||||
2013 | Willie Taggart | 2–10 | 2–6 | 8th | |||||
2014 | Willie Taggart | 4–8 | 3–5 | 7th | |||||
2015 | Willie Taggart | 8–5 | 6–2 | 2nd (East) | L Miami Beach | ||||
2016 | Willie Taggart [n 1] | 11–2 | 7–1 | T–1st (East) | W Birmingham | 19 | 19 | ||
Charlie Strong (American Athletic)(2017–2019) | |||||||||
2017 | Charlie Strong | 10–2 | 6–2 | 2nd (East) | W Birmingham | 21 | 21 | ||
2018 | Charlie Strong | 7–6 | 3–5 | 4th (East) | L Gasparilla | ||||
2019 | Charlie Strong | 4–8 | 2–6 | 4th (East) | |||||
Jeff Scott (American Athletic)(2020–2022) | |||||||||
2020 | Jeff Scott | 1–8 | 0–7 | 11th | |||||
2021 | Jeff Scott | 2–10 | 1–7 | 10th | |||||
2022 | Jeff Scott [n 2] | 1–11 | 0–8 | 11th | |||||
Alex Golesh (American Athletic)(2023–present) | |||||||||
2023 | Alex Golesh | 7–6 | 5–4 | 5th | W Boca Raton Bowl | ||||
2024 | Alex Golesh | 2–2 | |||||||
Total: | 170–156 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
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