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USF Bulls are headed to the Boca Bowl on Dec. 21

| Jo-Lynn Brown

The University of South Florida Bulls will take on Syracuse University at the 2023 RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl, at FAU Stadium, on December 21, at 8 p.m.

This marks the 11th bowl appearance for the Bulls.

USF football’s five-win improvement, over 2022, ranks as the greatest turnaround in program history and is tied with Liberty (13-0) for the second-best in the Football Bowl Subdivision, in 2023, behind only Northwestern’s six-win improvement.

USF is 6-4, all-time, in bowl games, with notable victories over Clemson, South Carolina and Texas Tech. This will mark the Bulls’ fourth bowl game appearance in the state of Florida, having previously played in the St. Petersburg Bowl, in 2008, the Miami Beach Bowl, in 2015, and the Gasparilla Bowl, in 2018.

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