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# Stampede Bonus: How did USF's new players play against... USF?
- URL: https://www.bayareaexaminer.com/stampede-bonus-how-did-usfs-new-players/
- Published: 2025-08-05T16:01:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-05T16:01:57.000Z
- Description: Someone's gotta ask the hard questions.
- Author: Collin Sherwin
- Tags: #Migrated-1792597384348, #Import 2026-10-21 15:44

A fun thing I’ve noticed as I’ve worked on this series: in a strange quirk of the modern portal age, a number of the Bulls’ incoming transfers this year have previously played at AAC schools, or other schools that USF has played recently. That got me thinking: how did these players perform against USF when they went head to head in the past?

This brief exercise serves two purposes:

1. As we struggle to project how an incoming transfer might perform against USF’s schedule, what better measuring stick than seeing how they performed against USF itself?
2. idk I just think it’s neat :)

Anyway, here you go!

**Gaston Moore, QB**: Moore was on the UCF roster for the 2020 game against USF, but didn’t play.

**Cartevious Norton, RB:** Handled ten carries for Charlotte against USF last season, totaling 30 yards and two touchdowns, including the game’s opening score. He also caught one pass for nine yards.

**Josh Celiscar, DT:** Played against USF three (!!) times from 2020 - 2022 in the War on I-4 as a key member of the UCF defense. He had four tackles in 2020, four tackles (including a TFL) in 2021, and three tackles in 2022.

**Wyatt Sullivan, TE**: Saw action in each of FAU’s 2023 and 2024 games against the Bulls, but didn’t record any stats.

**Jacob Merrifield, DT:** Started for FAU against the Bulls in 2023 and made one tackle. He missed the 2024 game with an injury.

**Dre Butler, DT**: Like Norton, played in last year’s USF-Charlotte game as a member of the 49ers. He made two tackles.

Bonus: returning linemen Derek Bowman and Mike Lofton are the other two players on the Bulls’ roster who previously lined up on the other sideline. Bowman played briefly in mop-up duty and on special teams in Houston’s wins over USF in 2020 and 2022\. Lofton appeared on special teams for UCF in their 2020 War on I-4 win, but didn’t appear in the 2021 game.