The South Florida Bulls Are What They Are

Saturday is South Florida's last call for a signature football win for this 2010 season.

There has been absolutely no "buzz" around South Florida football this year. It is what it is.

Yes, the Bulls have looked good at times, and yes, they are 6-4, but they'll need to play really, really well to have a winning season.

Judging by the offensive performance at home against Pitt last Saturday, that will be a tall order.

Pittsburgh would have been a signature win for Skip Holtz and his guys. But it was clear from the start of that contest that something was very, very wrong with B.J. Daniels' right knee, and that really put the kibosh on USF's upset chances.

Right now USF has three Big East wins, two of those over teams having disaster seasons—Cincinnati and Rutgers—and the other over the rebuilding Louisville project of Charlie Strong.

The loss to Syracuse at home was a mud pie in the face; other than that, this season has plodded along as most thought it would.

Holtz' team needs a good solid restocking effort in the offseason, and don't be surprised if at some point next year, Daniels is not the starting quarterback. Judging from his time at East Carolina, Daniels simply isn't a Skip Holtz kind of guy when it comes to signal callers.

Still, it's last call time, and the good news is that Holtz and his staff have managed to keep the team in virtually every game, save the Florida fiasco, and that was in doubt until Daniels went interception crazy and let the Gators put it out of reach.

Which brings us back to the "U." At this point Miami, like USF, has no "buzz." There's been a lot going on down there, and the 'Canes have arrived at Saturday's game with a 7-4 overall mark and are out of the ACC hunt at 5-3, just as the Bulls are out of the Big East running.

Still, Miami has more at stake in this one. USF has nothing to lose, and a win down there would give USF that "hey look at us" win that it doesn't have.

After Miami, the Bulls get UConn at home to close the regular season, and they'll desperately need to win that to have a 4-3 Big East record and a 7-5 overall record.

Unless something really snazzy happens down south on Saturday.