Midseason All-American led USF with 10 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss vs. FAU
TAMPA, FLA., OCT. 20, 2025 – Graduate linebacker Mac Harris, who was named to The Sporting News Midseason All-American team last week, has earned USF Football's third American Conference Defensive Player of the Week honor. Meanwhile, quarterback Byrum Brown was named to the conference's weekly honor roll for the fifth time this season.

Harris, who led the Bulls in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks last year, led No. 18-ranked South Florida (6-1; 3-0 American) with 10 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, one sack and a quarterback hurry in a 48-13 domination of FAU on homecoming. The South Florida defense limited FAU to 23 rushing yards (-13 until midway through the fourth quarter), 6-of-21 efficiency on third down and held the Owls, who entered the game scoring 32.8 ppg, to only one touchdown.
 
Harris joins fellow Bulls linebacker Jhalyn Shuler, who has twice been named the American Defensive Player of the Week on the year, in gaining USF's third conference weekly defensive player honor. The Bulls defense leads the nation with 17 takeaways on the year, stands seventh in redzone defense (.714) and ranks 11^th with two defensive touchdowns. The Bulls have forced a turnover in 15 straight games, the second-longest streak in the nation.
 
Brown earned American Offensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention honors after accounting for four touchdowns and guiding USF to its fourth straight game of 48 points and 500 yards or more. Brown threw for 256 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 111 yards and a touchdown. He extended the nation's longest active string of games with three or more touchdown passes to four, a USF record, and has accounted for 18 touchdowns in his last four games. Brown ranks No. 6 in the nation in points responsible for (18.9 ppg), No. 6 in total offense (310.0 ypg) and No. 14 in touchdown passes (16).
 
UP NEXT
USF hits the road to take on Memphis (6-1; 2-1 American) in a pivotal American Conference game at Simmons Bank Liberty Bowl Stadium in Memphis, Tenn. Saturday. The game kicks off at noon on ESPN2 and can be heard on Q105 FM and Bulls Unlimited.
 
REMAINING HOME GAMES
Just two regular season home games remain in one of the most exciting seasons in USF Football history. The Bulls will return to Raymond James Stadium for a Thursday, Nov. 6, primetime clash with UTSA (3-4; 1-2 American) that will kick off at 7:30 p.m., and the Bulls will wrap up the regular season with a Saturday, Nov. 29 clash with Rice (3-4; 1-2 American) in Tampa. USF has won five straight home games by at least 25 points (average margin 34.4 ppg) dating back to last season. It ties the longest streak in program history, previously set between 1997 and 1998.
 
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ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 28th season in 2024 with its second-straight bowl victory in the Hawai'i Bowl. Head coach Alex Golesh posted a program-best six-game turnaround and a Boca Raton Bowl victory in his first season in 2023. USF completed construction on a new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $349-million on-campus stadium and football operations center broke ground in the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 17 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections (including two consensus selections, the last coming in 2021), as well as 33 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft and the Bulls have made 12 bowl game appearances (going 8-4), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and making four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. USF posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as high as No. 2 in the Associated Press rankings during the 2007 season.