As Florida Atlantic comes to Tampa this week, the Bulls haven't played the Owls since 2010, but coach Willie Taggart has faced them three times since that game.
Taggart went 1-2 against FAU while he was head coach at Western Kentucky, including a 37-28 home loss last season. That's his only game against current Owls coach Carl Pelini -- his previous two meetings were against Howard Schnellenberger.
"I think we both know what each other's trying to do, at least from playing against each other," Taggart said of Pelini. "(They're) understanding what we're trying to do offensively, and we're trying to understand what they're doing defensively. For us defensively, that's totally different, but it all comes back to football, getting your guys to go out and execute and play at a high level."
Taggart's WKU team got a 20-0 win in Boca Raton in 2011, holding current Redskins star Alfred Morris to 27 yards on 14 carries and limiting the Owls to 121 yards of total offense. In 2010, FAU won 17-16 on a fourth-quarter field goal, despite Morris being held to 68 yards on 25 carries and FAU as a team held to 215.
USF has had better success against FAU, with a 3-0 record all-time -- a 31-3 win in 2010, a close-call 35-23 win in Boca Raton in 2007 and a 51-10 win in 2002. The two teams are off to similarly difficult 0-2 starts, with the Owls outscored by a 65-19 margin and USF by a 74-27 margin.
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