Tampa, Florida Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====University of South Florida==== {{See also|South Florida Bulls}} The [[University of South Florida]] is the only [[NCAA Division I]] sports program in Tampa. USF began playing intercollegiate sports in 1965. The [[South Florida Bulls|Bulls]] established a [[South Florida Bulls men's basketball|men's basketball]] team in 1971 and a [[South Florida Bulls football|football team]] in 1997 and sponsor 17 teams in total. The Bulls joined the [[Big East Conference (1979β2013)|Big East]] in 2005, and the football team rose to as high as #2 in the [[Bowl Championship Series|BCS]] rankings in 2007. They are now part of the [[American Athletic Conference]]. USF has won six NCAA national championships: softball in 1983 and 1984, women's swimming in 1985, and sailing in 2009, 2016, and 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=(NCAA Div. II Champions) 1984β85 Swimming Team (2009) β USF Athletic Hall of Fame |url=https://gousfbulls.com/honors/usf-athletic-hall-of-fame/-ncaa-div-ii-champions-1984-85-swimming-team/5 |access-date=October 18, 2020 |website=USF Athletics |language=en |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117204523/https://gousfbulls.com/honors/usf-athletic-hall-of-fame/-ncaa-div-ii-champions-1984-85-swimming-team/5 |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page