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NOVEMBER 2 · THE MONDAY FOLLOW-UP
Hicks gets a conference award. Beck’s offense gets an assignment to find more ways to throw.
Read the Monday follow-up →OCTOBER 31 · SOUTH FLORIDA 30, UAB 10
Defense: 12. Special teams: 12. Offense: six. Beck's unit graciously accepts the bronze while C.J. Hicks does the heavy lifting.
Read the UAB aftermath →OCTOBER 26 · SATIRE
Coaching staff remains confident it can establish the run before visiting hours end.
Less than 1% to make the playoff. 4% to win the American. A phone with that much battery remaining is already shutting down features.
Read the postseason prognosis →Last game: 30–10 win over UAB, October 31.
Next: at ECU — Friday, November 6, 7:30 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2.
Through eight games: 314.6 yards per game; 27 team points per game.
NEW · OCTOBER 26 · SATIRE
No opponent. No kickoff. Somehow, still an offensive problem. Hartline talks enhancement. The empty chair takes the win.
Read the bye-week disaster →KENT STATE AFTERMATH • OCTOBER 19
29 points on the scoreboard. Please check which department supplied them. Hartline calls the first half abysmal; the defense does the heavy lifting.
LATEST: South Florida 29, Kent State 2 • 5–2 overall, 1–2 American
BYE: Oct. 24 • NEXT: UAB, Oct. 31 at noon Eastern on ESPNU
OCTOBER 15 • SATIRICAL COMMENTARY
First downs have been discovered. The offensive identity is staying. Please hold your applause.
Watch the excuses. Read the post.UTSA AFTERMATH • OCTOBER 14
Eight third-quarter plays. Zero points. Another loss. Hartline's latest comments, fan reactions and a halftime adjustment that apparently involved disconnecting.
OCT. 8: UTSA 31, South Florida 24 • 4–2 overall, 1–2 American
Follow the latest result and next kickoff in the season log.
TEMPLE AFTERMATH • OCTOBER 4
South Florida scored 13 points against a Temple team that arrived 1–3. The warning signs finally became a loss.
Read the Temple aftermathHALFTIME OPINION • OCTOBER 3
The fans are fed up. Watch the reaction and read the halftime verdict on Tim Beck.
Watch the video and read the postSATIRE
South Florida's offensive coordinator emerges victorious from a prolonged confrontation with the possibility of trying something else.
Read Beck Defeats AdjustmentsBOWLING GREEN AFTERMATH
South Florida escaped Bowling Green 14–6. Six sacks, 52 passing yards and nearly 48 scoreless minutes demand answers from Tim Beck.
DELAWARE STATE AFTERMATH
South Florida buried Delaware State after halftime. Why was an FCS opponent still within four points late in the second quarter?
Read the Delaware State aftermathSept. 19 final • 3–0 overall • 1–0 in the American
South Florida finished with 611 yards and seven rushing touchdowns. Michael Van Buren threw for 300 yards and a touchdown; D.J. Crowther ran for 101 yards and three scores. Delaware State cut the lead to 21–17 late in the first half before the Bulls scored the final 38 points, including a 31–0 second half.
Sept. 19 result. See the current schedule and all game stats.
SOUTH FLORIDA 28 • ARMY 24 • FINAL
Two late drives. 156 yards. 14 points. South Florida escaped Army with a fourth-and-6 touchdown and 19 seconds left. Celebrate the finish. Question why the offense needed rescuing.
Read the Army aftermath: drives, clock decisions & fan reaction
Separated at birth? Or did somebody hand Ernest the play sheet?
Open and share the graphicTHE WARNING SIGNS WERE ALREADY THERE.
South Florida hired an offensive coordinator after stops at Nebraska, Ohio State, Texas, NC State and a 20–18 head-coaching run at Coastal Carolina that ended with a firing.
SEE THE FACTS
AFTER FIU: THE BACKLASHBeck wanted a high-powered offense. South Florida got 208 yards, four field goals and fans asking who should take away the play sheet. Now with his Week 2 explanations: a limited game plan, surprising defensive looks and a game he thinks nobody will remember by its smell.
READ THE FALLOUTFIU outgained South Florida 381–208 inside Raymond James Stadium. Beck's offense managed 100 passing yards, one touchdown, 3.7 yards per play and 2.8 yards per rush. Three FIU turnovers handed South Florida 13 points. Without the defense repeatedly dragging the offense back onto dry land, this opener turns into a public disaster.
Official final statistics · Full Week 1 damage report · Read the reaction
Tim Beck played football at UCF in 1985 and graduated from South Florida's hated rival in 1988. Decades later, South Florida handed a former Knight the keys to its offense.
Then came the evidence Bulls fans never wanted: 208 total yards against FIU, one offensive touchdown and 2.8 yards per rush. Actual spy? Of course not. Former Knight directing a 208-yard South Florida offense? Unfortunately, yes. If this is not sabotage, Beck is doing a remarkable impression of it.
South Florida Athletics: Beck's UCF playing career and degree · FIU at South Florida final statistics
Coastal's deleted December 2023 posts showed a shirtless Beck posing on a Hawaii beach with the dance team in matching teal bathing suits and mascot Chauncey. Beck called it a “very spontaneous event” and said deletion was “100 bazillion percent, all me.”
WPDE source and image · The Chanticleer follow-up. A campus Instagram poll reported 35% called it inappropriate.
Live ESPN, November 2024: crowd chants, a full beer, then Beck smashes the can against his forehead. The spectacle wrote its own punchline.
Awful Announcing photo and storyBeverly Morgan sued Beck and the Pelini Foundation after a 2010 Football 101 clinic drill, alleging the drill caused a subdural hematoma and brain surgery. The allegations put Beck at the center of a brutal football-clinic story.
Read what was reportedBeck fired Travis Trickett in October 2024 and took over offensive coordinator, quarterbacks and play-calling duties. Asked whether that was too much: “Maybe. We'll see how it goes.”
Read moreFired November 30, 2025 after 59–10 against JMU. Athletic's March 2026 table listed a current $1.7 million buyout with payouts ending in 2026.
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