Although college basketball is currently in the heart of its schedule, the Auburn Tigers sit 214 days away from their 2026 football season opener. Auburn faces the Baylor Bears at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Sept.
Under Alex Golesh, South Florida completed a breakthrough 2025 campaign, posting a 9–4 overall record and a 6–2 conference mark while installing Golesh’s offense and getting major production from senior quarterback Byrum Brown.
The Auburn Tigers are continuing to build their roster through the transfer portal, and they have just added another quarterback. Oregon State transfer quarterback Tristan Ti’a has committed to the Tigers, according to a report from On3 late Sunday night.
Alex Golesh and the Auburn Tigers have been hard at work in the transfer portal. Yes, most of the additions have been USF Bulls players who followed Golesh to his new head coaching position in the SEC, but many of them will likely prove important to Auburn's 2026 success.
The Auburn Tigers secured the commitment of former USF quarterback Byrum Brown on Tuesday, bringing new head coach Alex Golesh’s quarterback with him to the Plains.
Outgoing South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown decided to follow head coach Alex Golesh to Auburn, he announced Tuesday. Brown visited the campus over the weekend before committing to the Tigers for his final season of eligibility.
Alex Golesh is working to reshape the roster of the Auburn football team, and part of that effort has involved utilizing the College Football Transfer Portal.
South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown is entering the transfer portal and planning to visit Auburn and former Bulls head coach Alex Golesh, ESPN reported Saturday.
South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown closed the 2025 campaign as one of the nation’s most productive dual-threat signal callers, finishing with 3,158 passing yards, 28 passing touchdowns, and seven interceptions, while adding 1,008 rushing yards and 14 rushing scores on the ground, along with a 66.3% completion rate.
The NCAA transfer portal officially opens on Jan. 2, 2026, and will remain open for the following two weeks. The number of college football quarterbacks headed for the NCAA transfer portal continues to swell.
With the transfer portal set to open in about 10 days, activity across college football has already begun to ramp up, particularly at the quarterback position.
The 2025 Auburn football season ended in disaster, culminating in the firing of Hugh Freeze. However, they rebounded from that by hiring Alex Golesh from South Florida.
South Florida’s 2025 campaign ended 9–4 with a Cure Bowl loss to Old Dominion on December 17, a game the Bulls entered with a win probability north of 70%.
South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown, the Bulls’ record-setting signal-caller who is one of college football’s most productive dual-threat quarterbacks over the past three seasons, is entering the transfer portal.
One of the Auburn Tigers’ top potential quarterback targets has announced he is planning to explore other options. South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown is set to enter the transfer portal, according to a report from Hayes Fawcett around 11 a.m.
After the USF Bulls finished 9-4 on the season, they turned to the offseason in preparation for the new season. The Bulls did not end on a high note as
The 2025 StaffDNA Cure Bowl was one of the toughest to figure out, mainly because the main men were missing from both sides - more on that in a moment.
The USF Bulls (9-3) will face off against the ODU Monarchs (9-3) in the Cure Bowl at 5 p.m. ET on Dec. 17 in Orlando, Fla. If the Bulls win the game, they will win their 10th game of the year, their first 10-win season since 2017 and it would only be their third in school history.
With bowl season unfortunately comes opt-out season. Whether due to injuries or fear or harming NFL Draft status or just general disenchantment with college football, every bowl game has players who are electing not to play in the game.
South Florida football is transitioning out of Alex Golesh leading the Bulls. Dual-threat quarterback Byrum Brown is another hitting the sunset at USF — including his involvement with the Cure Bowl.
Two teams on the rise, both capping off sensational 9-3 seasons, are set to collide in Orlando for a bowl game that feels like much more than just a postseason exhibition.
New Auburn Tigers head coach Alex Golesh should have one pressing thought on his mind: keeping Deuce Knight on the Plains for a couple of years. Knight should remind Golesh of a player he developed at South Florida, Byrum Brown.
The South Florida Bulls, USF, kept their long-shot College Football Playoff hopes alive with a dominant 55-23 win over UTSA in Week 11. Alex Golesh’s team has been one of the best stories of the year, largely due to the resurgent play of star quarterback Byrum Brown, who led USF to its latest victory with a historic performance.
USF will travel to take on Memphis in Week 9 in a game that at one time looked like could have implications for the College Football Playoff. The Bulls and Tigers were the top two Group of 5 teams predicted to make the CFP according to most experts entering this week before Memphis lost to UAB in Week 8.
Byrum Brown had another all-around performance and quick-tempo No. 19 South Florida subdued the visiting, high-flying Florida Atlantic Owls 48-13 in an American Conference matchup on Saturday night in Tampa, Fla.
South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores and the 24th-ranked Bulls forced five turnovers in a 63-36 victory over North Texas on Friday night in Denton, Texas.