IBC

UC (University of Cincinnati) has had an amazing football season. UC is nto a football school and the Big East is not a football conference, but it's still been a fantastic season. A 6-0 start got UC ranked in the top 25 for the first time in 30 years.
Consecutive losses to Louisville (a shameful game) and at Pitt knocked them out, but the season was already a success for this team. Nippert stadium was a hopping, happening place, selling out games, packing the stands... it was really amazing.
Then last week UC goes to Florida and beats USF, a game no UC fan rationally expected to win. Then, today... a dominant win at home against #16 UCONN.
Today's game will almost certainly get the Bearcats back into the Top 25 with only two games left on the schedule and an intriguing, unfathomable possibility.
Next week UC hosts #6 West Virginia... if, somehow, the Bearcats can win that game, followed by their final game at Syracuse... UC could win the Big East if UCONN loses to WVU in West Virginia.
Now, no offense to UCONN fans, but WVU beating UCONN in that game is no stretch. If I were the gambling type, I'd put money on it happening. what IS a stretch though, is UC beating West Virginia. WVU is good. Damn good in fact and they'd be the most highly ranked team that UC has beaten in quite a long time.
But the game IS at home... and UC wasn't supposed to beat USF either. Or #12 Rutgers last season. Perhaps... just Perhaps... they can pull it off.

Here's to Perhaps...

i would be suprised if WVU doesnt win by 35

WVU is going to crush UConn.

Brewers wrote:i would be suprised if WVU doesnt win by 35

I won't promise a win, but no way does WVU win by 35.

Allow me to elucidate a little... if WVU needs a 50yard TD run in the last 2 minutes of the Game to beat UL... at Home... then being shocked at UC keeping within 35 of WVU in Cincinnati seems like a pretty ridiculous statement.

i mean thats a pretty rediculous statement for college football...there are plenty of teams that beat other GREAT teams and survive scares by shitty teams. WVU easily has one of the top 5 offenses in the league so winning by 35 is very possible. It doesnt help that either team has played a single hard game all year but WVU is the only legit team out of that conference.

WVU does have a great offense, but UC's defense is pretty solid and UC has a knack for getting up for big games, especially games where they're supposed to be underdogs (today, at USF, and v. Rutgers last year). This is the biggest game of the year for the Bearcats.

Will they win? Probably not.

Will they give the Mountaineers one hell of a fight? Count on it.

Correction from earlier. Rutgers was #7 when UC played them last season.

USF=a bad team and in college football you never can compare 1 season to the next.

Brewers wrote:USF=a bad team and in college football you never can compare 1 season to the next.

USF was good enough to beat WVU.

appalachian st was good also

Bren, you're not much of a betting man. UC was favored today.

Nope, I'm not. I wouldn't even know where to look to find that out. I figgred since UCONN was ranked and UC wasn't, UCONN would be favored to win.

Tomorrow is the big game... I know UC doesn't have much in the way of a chance... but I can't help but be optimistic. The players can keep their blinders on and just focus on next week, but as a fan I reserve the right to be irrational and look down the road to... dare I say it... an Orange Bowl? A Fiesta Bowl?
If it comes down to that... I'm going. I don't care what it takes, what it costs, who they're playing or where it is... I'm going.
This is so huge for UC too... the school is in a budget crunch because the last administration decided to build a ton of new buildings without the money to pay for them, so anything that gets Alumnae excited and into the spirit of giving is a good thing. Not to mention what this will do for recruiting. The Cincinnati area is, from my understanding, a hotbed of football talent. based on the national High School that's not a difficult claim to support. St X and Colerain are both top schools and play their annual match at... UC's Nippert stadium. A lot of that top talent is usually siphoned off by OSU, but UC has a much better shot at some of those guys now than they would have had before.