Brigham Young 9/29 10:15 ESPN

[Lobot]

BYU road game at altitude. This didn't work so well for UC the last time we tried it. I hope we have the depth to pull this off. The Cougars are 3-1 with a road win at Arkansas and a loss to Kansas in their Big XII debut this past weekend.

They throw the ball a lot. As in a 4:1 pass to run ratio . UC DBs will get tested in this one. They inherited QB Kedon Slovis from Pitt. This is school number three for Slovis, who I believe is a grad transfer. He started his career at USC and transferred out when Lincoln Riley was hired. The passing attack spreads the ball around a bit. They have 3 receivers with 200+ yards this season and one of them is the TE, Isaac Rex.

In contrast the leading rusher on the team has 223 yards for the season over 4 games. It's pretty apparent what we'll see on Friday night.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...stats/_/id/252

[Bearcat93]

I watched the second half of the BYU/Kansas game. BYU’s passing game will test us for sure. I’m curious if they run an uptempo offense against us like Oklahoma did-that worked fairly well.

[bearcatjd]

I just found out the team is not leaving until Thursday morning. I think that is a mistake. I was at BYU the only time we played them. The team ran out of gas in the 2nd half big time. I was hoping they would leave a day earlier to become more acclimated to the altitude. JMHO!

[swilsonsp4]

Max Olson of the athletic.com ($) wrote a column that lists all 133 FBS defenses in terms of "stop rate" (drives ending in punts, turnovers & turnovers on downs). The stats are for games versus only other FBS teams. BYU are #14 (78.9%). For comparison, Oklahoma are #4 (85.7%). The Bearcats are tied for #54 (66.7%)

College football stop rate rankings 2023: Penn State’s defense No. 1; Oklahoma, UGA lurking - The Athletic

[red_n_black_attack]

I just found out the team is not leaving until Thursday morning. I think that is a mistake. I was at BYU the only time we played them. The team ran out of gas in the 2nd half big time. I was hoping they would leave a day earlier to become more acclimated to the altitude. JMHO!

There should be a league rule o no weekday games traveling two time zones, for the very reason you pointed out. On the other hand there is probably already a rule that the students can only miss two days of class to make the travel. Going Thursday for a Saturday game makes more sense to me as well. Or Wed for a Friday game, there's no classes on Fridays, right?

[bearcatbret]

Would you believe UC by 7? I do not. Cincinnati vs. BYU: Preview, Prediction, and Game Odds (Sep 29, 2023) (heartlandcollegesports.com)

[Lobot]

ESPN has UC -2.0 which is still weird. Vegas knows something we don’t know apparently

[swilsonsp4]

Sagarin Predictor has UC as 0.7-point road favorites.

[Lobot]

Saw where Satterfield expects them to establish the run in this game ?!?!?!?!?

[Bearcat93]

Bryan Clinton, the writer in Heartland's article, offers a pretty level-headed look at the B12 so far - he has UC finishing in the top half of the conference, which is interesting, if not a bit optimistic. It does appear that our more challenging games on paper are WVU and Kansas, so let's pretend for a minute that we split those (as we're on the road @ WVU and hosting Kansas) and then beat BYU, Baylor, OK St, Houston & Iowa St and lose to UCF - that's 8-4 (6-3), so who knows? Me, I think we lose @ BYU but I can see where we could finish 7-5 overall in a down B12 (where we don't play TX or KS St.) if we get some QB play (Emory or otherwise) that gets more productive than where we are right now. I'd def take 7-5 this year.

[richard k.]

[QUOTE=. I'd def take 7-5 this year. [/QUOTE]

I think almost everyone would!!!

[Lobot]

Apparently, the deal with Vegas is that BYU's O-line is last place terrible and Arkansas was considered a fluke.

[GoBearcats31]

All white uniforms

[Lobot]

Any of you gamblers know anything about the game being pulled from sportsbooks? Something fishy happened with the line I think

[Bearcat93]

Uh oh, all whites…..where’s the dislike button?