1. First-year USF coach Skip Holtz will go for his first win in Saturday's home opener against Stony Brook. However, Holtz is 2-0 at Raymond James Stadium - earning wins in back-to-back Outback Bowls in 2001 and 2002 when he was assistant head coach/quarterbacks coach at South Carolina.
2. Holtz's second game as USF's coach will be at Florida on Sept. 11 against Urban Meyer's Gators. In 1990, Meyer replaced Holtz as receivers coach at Colorado State when Holtz left to become receivers coach at Notre Dame.
3. USF defensive coordinator Mark Snyder spent the past five seasons as head coach at Marshall, where he faced Holtz's East Carolina teams every season in Conference USA. Holtz had a 4-1 record against Snyder's Marshall teams.
4. B.J. Daniels (team-high 772 yards) is expected to run less this season, but he is the sixth-leading rusher in the nation among returning quarterbacks, trailing Navy's Ricky Dobbs (1,192), Nevada's Colin Kaepernick (1,183), Middle Tennessee's Dwight Dasher (1,154), Georgia Tech's Joshua Nesbitt (1,037) and Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor (779).
5. Holtz has a career winning percentage of .590 as a head coach (72-50 career record in 10 seasons). Former Bulls coach Jim Leavitt, the only coach in school history prior to Holtz, had a .625 career winning percentage (95-57) in 13 seasons.
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