Thursday, November 12, 2009. 7:45 pm @ ESPN

South Florida is in the Top 25 in the country but to stay there they will have to win at Rutgers on Thursday night at 7:45pm EST in a game that can be seen on ESPN.

The Bulls have lost their last three games against the Scarlet Knights and are coming off three straight games against ranked teams. As good as freshman quarterback B.J. Daniels has looked at times this season, he has been awfully inconsistent. He’s also struggled two weeks ago in Pittsburgh and probably he does so again in New Jersey tomorrow night.

Both teams have defenses that force a lot of turnovers, so this could come down to which freshman quarterback makes the least mistakes.

USF QB B.J. Daniels went for 336 total yards vs. West Virginia last week (232 yards, 3 TD passing, 104 yards rushing), but he struggled against Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and Rutgers has the run defense to neutralize his running threat and a pass defense that could pressure him and force him into mistakes like the Bearcats and Panthers did.

Rutgers’ Tom Savage has eight touchdown passes and only one interception, and he’ll have to continue to be efficient against a very good South Florida pass defense, along with getting some help from a ground game that has found the going tough in Big East play.

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