Brown is the only FBS player with 2,000 passing, 700 rushing yards on the 2025 season; Has posted three-straight 100-yard rushing games

TAMPA, FLA., NOV. 12, 2025 – South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown has been named a semifinalist for the 2025 Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award.

The 20 quarterbacks named semifinalists have helped guide their respective teams to a combined record of 154-31 (.832). The Davey O'Brien Foundation will announce the three finalists on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The 2025 Davey O'Brien Award winner will be unveiled live on ESPN on Friday, Dec. 12, during The Home Depot College Football Awards.
 
The award's three finalists will again be chosen based on voting from the Davey O'Brien National Selection Committee as well as bonus ballots awarded from the second round of the Davey O'Brien Fan Vote. For the sixth straight year, fan voting on social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) will earn players bonus selection committee votes.
 
To vote, fans must like the official graphic from the @daveyobrien social media account that highlights their favorite quarterback. The second round will close Friday, Nov. 21, at 11:59 p.m. (CT).
 
Brown is the only player in the nation to have posted 2,000 passing yards and 700 rushing yards on the year and is on pace to become just the 12^th player ever to post a 3,000-yard passing and 1,000-yard rushing season in FBS history. He is currently riding a string of three straight 100-yard rushing games and is one of three FBS players in the last 30 seasons to have at least 2,200 passing yards, 19 passing touchdowns and 700 rushing yards through nine team games of a campaign. The others are Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts (2019) and Louisville's Lamar Jackson (2016).

Brown ranks in the top 25 nationally in six categories. He stands No. 3 in points responsible for (18.7 ppg) and No. 4 in total offense (323.1 ypg) while ranking in the top 25 of both passing (No. 17 with 19) and rushing (No. 25 with 9) touchdowns on the year. He also ranks No. 21 in yards per completion (13.11) and yards per attempt (8.47) and stands just outside the top 25 in pass efficiency, coming in at No. 27 (155.3).
 
Brown became the first NFL or NCAA player in the last 30 years to post 200 passing yards, 100 rushing yards and a 90 percent completion percentage while accounting for 348 yards and three touchdowns in the Bulls win vs. UTSA. He went 14-of-15 (93.3) for 239 yards and two touchdowns passing – an efficiency of 271.2 that ranks second all-time at USF – while posting his ninth career 100-yard rushing game, gaining 109 yards and a touchdown on just nine carries (12.1 ypc). He led the Bulls on a 31-0 run to take a 52-10 lead and led touchdown drives of 65, 75, 65, 77 and 75 yards.

Up Next:
USF heads to Annapolis, Md. for the first of back-to-back road matchups that begin the final three-game stretch of American Conference regular season play. The Bulls will take on Navy (7-2; 5-1 American) on Saturday in a noon kickoff on ESPN2, the Bulls' sixth-straight nationally televised game and ninth on the season.
 
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THE DAVEY O'BRIEN AWARD:
The Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award is presented annually to the nation's best college quarterback and is the oldest and most prestigious national quarterback award. The 49th Annual Davey O'Brien Awards Dinner honoring the winner will be held Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, at The Fort Worth Club in Fort Worth, Texas. For more information, visit www.daveyobrienaward.com.
        The Davey O'Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O'Brien Foundation has given away more than $1.4 million in scholarships and university grants to help high school and college athletes transform leadership on the field into leadership in life.
        In 1938, O'Brien, who was a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. 
  
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 $340-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.