between the rivals was a men's basketball game in 1972, where the South Florida Golden Brahmans beat the Florida Tech Knights of the Pegasus 115–96. The close geographic proximity and the schools being founded around the same time (South Florida in 1956 and Central Florida in 1963) made the two naturally become rivals. The Bulls and Knights became conference foes for the first time in 2013, when UCF joined the American Athletic Conference. The rivalry gets its name from Interstate 4, which runs through both Tampa and Orlando. The rivalry was officially recognized by both USF and UCF on September 21, 2016, when they announced an official trophy series between all 14 sports that both schools sponsor. Each sport is worth six total points, and sports where the teams meet head to head multiple times in the regular season will have the six points divided by the number of games played for a total of 84 possible points with 43 points needed to clinch the trophy. In the event of a tie in the overall competition, the athletic program that scores higher in the annual NCAA Graduation Success Rate will be awarded one extra point and crowned as the champion for that season. In the unlikely event that this is also tied, the series ends as a tie for that season and the previous winner retains the trophy. The winner each year will take possession of a large trophy shaped like an Interstate road sign, which will be displayed on their campus for the following year. One side of the trophy reads "Tampa" and features the USF logo while the other reads "Orlando" and features the UCF logo. The winner of the annual Thanksgiving weekend football clash receives a similarly shaped "War On I-4" trophy. As of the end of the 2020–21 school year, South Florida holds the all-time series lead for eight of the ten sports in which the schools meet head-to-head: baseball (79–74), men's basketball (24–17), women's basketball (30–14), softball (19–16), men's soccer (), men's tennis (34–11), women's tennis (19–9) and volleyball (49–41) . The series is tied 6–6 in football. UCF only leads in women's soccer (), but UCF has won all four overall War on I-4 titles awarded since 2016, and led USF in the 2019–20 edition of the rivalries, but that title was not awarded due to spring sports being canceled by the NCAA because