Bulls reschedule home games with Louisville, UM, NC State

USF’s hopes of hosting Miami in an on-campus stadium still bearing a new-car smell have been logistically derailed.

Instead, the Hurricanes will arrive possibly before ground is broken on the new place.

The school announced Tuesday a number of modifications to its future football schedules. Among them: a Sept. 4, 2027, home game against Miami moved to Sept. 21, 2024.

The change was one of three involving ACC programs. The Bulls’ Aug. 31, 2024, home contest against Louisville moves to Sept. 4, 2027 (the originally scheduled date of the Bulls-Hurricanes contest; and a Sept. 14, 2024, home game against North Carolina State has been switched to Sept. 8, 2029.

If USF remains on its current timeline for a new stadium, the Louisville and N.C. State games would be played on campus. The school’s term sheet with the design-build team it has chosen for the project includes a provision that will allow USF to make $2 million in liquidated damages for every home game in the 2026 season in which the new stadium isn’t ready.

Other schedule changes include moving a previously scheduled home date with Western Kentucky from Sept. 21, 2024, to Sept. 20, 2031, in Tampa. The Bulls also added two-game series with Southern Mississippi (in Hattiesburg on Sept. 14, 2024, and in Tampa on Sept. 23, 2028) and Bethune-Cookman (both in Tampa on Aug. 31, 2024, and Sept. 16, 2028).

The Bulls also added a home game against South Carolina State on Sept. 20, 2025, replacing a scheduled home game against San Jose State (which both universities have agreed to nullify).

WILLIE J. ALLEN JR./ORLANDO SENTINEL UCF and receiver Javon Baker are no longer on USF’s schedule, but the Bulls are set to face a number of prominent Power Five programs in non-conference play during upcoming seasons.