Just got home, did some reading online. Two things every writeup is focusing on: Herd's 11-3 career bowl record and USF losing their last five games. The Bulls were catching an average of 9 points in those last five games - granted they were home faves in one of those, but 0-5 shouldn't be a surprise against those types of spreads. Nobody talking about Bulls going undefeated in their first seven games though. But they were laying like 15 points per game. Huge favorites in their first seven games, with the exception of the +2 they got hosting Georgia Tech. They've either been huge faves or huge underdogs. There seems to be no "middle ground" to cap the Bulls on. With Charlie Strong they have only been home dogs twice and are actually 12-1 SU non-conference the last three seasons, but again - laying 2 TDs per game you'd expect that type of win percentage.