An electrifying quarterback whose highlight reel will dazzle generations, Flowers was named the 2016 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and earned two AAC All-Conference honors (first team in 2016) as he led the Bulls to three bowl games, a program record 20 consecutive weeks ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, and a program-record tying 30 wins as a starting quarterback while posting the highest winning percentage of any quarterback in program history at .769 (30-9).
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Twice named the Birmingham Bowl MVP, Flowers led USF to victories over South Carolina (2016) and Texas Tech (2017) in the bowl to cap the two winningest seasons in program history as the Bulls finished 11-2 and ranked No. 19 in the nation in 2016 and 10-2 and ranked No. 21 in 2017, marking the first time USF finished a season in the AP Top 25.
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Flowers was twice named the Florida Offensive Player of the Year by the Miami Herald (2016 & 2017), the 2016 College Football Awards Performer of the Year and the recipient of the 2017 Athlon Sports Individual College Football Performance of the Year for his USF game record performances of 605 total yards and 503 passing yards to go with five touchdowns at UCF in 2017. He was just the fourth player in FBS history to post 8,000 passing and 3,500 rushing yards in a career, the sixth to post 70 or more passing and 40 or more rushing touchdowns and finished his career ranking the ninth all-time in FBS history and first in the state of Florida for quarterback rushing yards (3,672).
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The two-time USF team MVP and captain finished his career as the American Athletic Conference record holder for career total offense (11,802) and owning 42 USF program records, including career rushing yards (3,672), season rushing yards (1,530, 2016), season passing yards (2,911, 2017, tied), career and season touchdown records for total (112 & 42), rushing (41 & 18) and passing (71 & 25), season total offense (4,337, 2016), career passing efficiency (146.51) and fewest interceptions (23), 18 games of 300-plus total offense yards, and the USF and AAC quarterback game rushing record (210 yards vs. Memphis in 2016).
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He was the first-ever 2,000-yard passer and 1,000-yard rusher in state of Florida FBS history (2016) and the first-ever 1,000-yard rusher in state of Florida FBS history (2016), posting the top three rushing seasons by an FBS quarterback in state history. He was also the first AAC player and 14th FBS player to run and pass for 200-plus yards in the same game (at Memphis, 2016), while posting 16 career 100-yard rushing games (second all-time at USF), five 300-yard passing games (second all-time) and totaling 8,130 career passing yards (fourth all-time).
Flowers was selected for induction with the USF Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
