USF alum Consuelos a proud bandwagoner

Actor Mark Consuelos said his timing as a college student was all off, because USF didn't have have a football team when he went to school there.

"I spent my first two years of college at Notre Dame, which obviously had one," Consuelos said Thursday. "I knew (later) that USF had started a football program, but last year was the first year I really noticed. I would be considered a major bandwagoner, but you have to start somewhere."

Consuelos, 36, who starred on "All My Children," said he started following USF again because his wife, actress Kelly Ripa, has a Rutgers alum for an agent. "USF almost beat them, and I remember thinking, 'They have a nice team. They might be really good next year.'"

Consuelos, who graduated in 1994 with a marketing degree, said he'll be watching Friday night's USF-West Virginia game -- while nervously flipping to his stumbling Mets -- and said he's been neglectful in getting himself USF gear to watch in. "I've got to find a green and white jersey to wear," he said.

Does wife Kelly, of TV's "Live with Regis and Kelly," pull for the Bulls? "I'm not sure she's really aware USF even exists," he joked. "She knows Jon Gruden makes crazy faces after every play, but that's really about the extent of what she knows about sports in Tampa. But if USF beats West Virginia, I'll make sure she talks with Regis about it."

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Comments

[DELdaBULL]

Cee maybe you should join the bandwagon before it BLOWS by you.

[cee]

ha, funny but i didn't even think of those as possibilities. I dont have a younger brother, friend.

Mark Consuelos will forget about his allegiances after we fail to show up on the field tomorrow. WVU owns our field.

[Cee's Little Brother]

My brother tells me it's Leavitt's fault that only B talent comes to our games. We don't have any real stars or real hero's like Pac Man Jones or Chris Henry comming to our games. My brother says that if we get another coach, any coach then awesome people like O.J. Simpson and Lindsay Lohan would walk our side lines.