Road trips are nothing new for USF's football program. Its 53-foot semi-truck carries a payload of up to 12,000 pounds. In the last seven seasons alone, it has gone as far north as Massachusetts and as far west as California and Utah.
Now comes a different challenge.
The Hawaii Bowl.
"Turns out, you can't drive a truck from here to Honolulu,'' head coach Alex Golesh said.
So how do you get an entire college-football operation — jerseys (white roadies with the Hawaii Bowl patch), pants, cleats, helmets, pads, practice gear, footballs, equipment and medical supplies, plus coaches, players, administrators, support staff, boosters, spouses and children, plus everyone's luggage — some 4,700 miles away, from Tampa to Honolulu and back for a seven-day stay?