Page 4 - Boca Club News - January '24

Page 4, Boca Club News

Bowl Game Shines from page 1 entertaining experience for
both college football fans
games in the four years before his arrival. USF finishes and non-fans alike making it
this season with seven wins, its first winning season since for a great family and friends
2017 and the largest margin of victory in a bowl game in or company holiday party
school history. Just as the Bulls had done all season, they night.
did it behind quarterback Byrum Brown and receiver Sean Entering the RoofClaim.
Atkins. com Boca Raton Bowl,
Brown threw for 213 yards and three touchdown passes to Syracuse University was
reach 26 on the season, breaking Quinton Flowers’ single- 6-6 overall, 2-6 Atlantic
season school record of 25 set in 2017. Brown also joined Coast Conference and
Flowers as the only two players in program history with the University of South
4,000 total yards in a season. Florida was 6-6 overall
Meanwhile, Atkins had six catches for 93 yards and two and 4-4 American Athletic
scores, becoming the first player in school history to go Conference. The Orange and
over 1,000 receiving yards. Bulls were former Big East
But the USF defense took center stage. The Bulls came rivals. This was the first-
into the game ranked No. 128 out of 130 FBS teams in ever appearance in the Boca
total defense but completely shut down the Orange, who Raton Bowl for both teams.
were playing without starting quarterback Garrett Shrader As one of 17 bowl games
(shoulder surgery). owned and operated by ESPN
Syracuse turned once again to converted tight end Dan Events, a division of ESPN, the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Redick (Temple, 2015), who helped lead the Eagles to Super
Villari and Braden Davis at quarterback, but nothing was Bowl debuted in 2014 and has been well received in the Bowl LVII.
working. USF forced four turnovers–including a strip- community through its first nine years. It has twice held ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, owns and operates
sack fumble that Tramel Logan Jr. returned for a 61-yard the distinction of matching up two conference champions: a portfolio of collegiate sporting events nationwide. In
score. USF special teams got involved, too, when Syracuse Marshall University vs. Northern Illinois University (2014), 2023, the 33-event schedule includes four early-season
muffed the hold on a field goal attempt, and Aamaris Brown and UAB vs. Northern Illinois (2018). Through the years, college football kickoff games, 17 college bowl games,
returned the fumble 64 yards for a score. Those two scores six conference champions and another three conference nine college basketball events, a college softball event and
helped USF build a 31-0 lead at halftime, and the Bulls division champions have played in the game and counted the inaugural Band of the Year National Championship, in
never looked back. among the bowl’s alumni are New York Jets quarterback addition to a new college gymnastics event coming in 2024.
It was a disappointing season’s end for Syracuse, which Zach Wilson (BYU, 2020 and also No. 2 pick in the NFL Collectively, these events account for over 400 hours of
fired coach Dino Babers in November and had interim coach draft), Houston Texans running back Devin Singletary live programming on ESPN platforms, reaching 60 million
Nunzio Campanile in charge for the bowl. Incoming coach (FAU, 2017) and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Haason viewers and attracting more than 650,000 annual attendees.
Fran Brown was in Boca to watch, and so was Ohio State
transfer quarterback Kyle McCord, whom the Orange hope
will help them improve next season. WHAT ARE YOUR
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