2020 FOOTBALL GAME NOTES UC ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS 2751 O’VARSITY WAY SUITE 860 CINCINNATI, OHIO 45221-0021 • GOBEARCATS.COM GAME 6 CINCINNATI vs HOUSTON 5-0 • 3-0 AAC 2-2 • 2-1 AAC 6 SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 2020 • 3:30 PM ET • NIPPERT STADIUM • CINCINNATI, OHIO 2020 SCHEDULE / RESULTS 6 CINCINNATI BEARCATS GAME INFORMATION Head Coach Luke Fickell Facility Nippert Stadium DATE OPPONENT (TV) TIME (ET)/RES Record at Cincinnati 31-13 (Fourth Year) Capacity 40,000 Sept. 19 AUSTIN PEAY (ESPN+) W, 55-20 Overall Record 37-20 (Fifth Year) TV ESPN Sept. 26 22 ARMY WEST POINT (ESPN) W, 24-10 Radio 700 WLW AM / Sirius 121 / XM 207 / Internet 967 Oct. 3 USF * (ESPN+) W, 28-7 TuneIn.com Oct. 24 @ 16 SMU * (ESPN2) W, 42-13 HOUSTON COUGARS Online Head Coach Dana Holgorsen Series Record Houston leads 15-11 Oct. 31 MEMPHIS * (ESPN) W, 49-10 Record at School 6-10 (Second Year) At Cincinnati Cincinnati leads 6-5 Nov. 7 HOUSTON * (ESPN) 3:30 p.m. Overall Record 67-51 (10th year) Last Meeting Oct. 12, 2019 - UC won 38-23 Nov. 13 ECU * (ESPN2) 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21 @ UCF * NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE BREAKDOWN Nov. 27 @ Temple * The No. 6 University of Cincinnati football team faces Houston on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 3:30 p.m. ET inside Nippert Stadium. Dec. 5 @ Tulsa * The game will be televised on ESPN and air on 700 WLW AM. The 5-0 Bearcats are 3-0 in American Athletic Conference play and have won a school-record 17-straight games at Nippert. Houston is 2-2 (1-1 American) on the season having seen All times ET. Home games in BOLD CAPS, played at NIppert three September games postponed, finally opening 2020 on Oct. 8 vs. Tulane with a win, a loss to BYU, win at Navy and Stadium. * - American Athletic Conference game. loss to UCF last weekend. ON THE AIR THE SERIES TV: ESPN Cincinnati and Houston will meet for the 27th time Saturday and the first in Nippert Stadium in four years. Houston holds • Play-by-Play ..................................................Sean McDonough a 15-11 edge in the all-time series which started in 1957. The Bearcats hold a 6-5 edge at home and have won six of the last • Analyst ............................................................... Todd Blackledge eight meetings, including four of five in Cincinnati. • Field Analyst .......................................................... Todd McShay • Reporter .................................................................Molly McGrath THE COACHES • Online: WatchESPN.com LUKE FICKELL, the 2018 American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, is in his fourth season at UC. He has led UC to • Mobile App: ESPN back-to-back 11-win seasons, the 2019 AAC East Division Championship along with consecutive bowl-game wins in the 2018 Military Bowl and 2019 TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl. A veteran of 20 years in the FBS ranks, Fickell has been a RADIO: BEARCATS SPORTS NETWORK part of two national championship squads, nine conference title-winning teams (seven as a coach, two as a player at Ohio • Play-by-Play ................................................................ Dan Hoard State) with 16 postseason games and 13 NFL Draft selections under his belt. • Analyst ........................................................................ Jim Kelly Jr. • Sideline Reporter ......................................................... Tony Pike DANA HOLGORSEN is in his second season at Houston after spending eight years as the head coach at West Virginia. The • Host/Engineer .............................................................. Mo Egger second-winningest coach in WVU history, he has a 10-year career mark of 67-51. Prior to his time at WVU, he was an OC at • Local: 700 WLW AM Oklahoma State, Houston and Texas Tech along with stops at Wingate, Mississippi College and Valdosta State. • Satellite: Sirius 121 / XM 207 / Internet 967 • Online: Tunein.com / iHeartMedia App STREAKS, STORYLINES, SIDEBARS ... • Mobile App: TuneIn (search Cincinnati Bearcats) • UC plays its 133rd football season in 2020. The Bearcats program dates to 1885 and is one of the 10 oldest in the NCAA FBS. UC has won a league title five times in the last 13 years and has played 11 bowl games in the past 14 years. LIVE STATS: Cincinnati.StatBroadcast.com • Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC lost games at Nebraska and vs. Miami (OH) and Western Michigan. The APSU game was moved from Sept. 3 to Sept. 19 and the Bearcats played Army West Point on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Nippert Stadium. SOCIAL MEDIA UC’s AAC game at Tulsa was moved from Saturday, Oct. 10 to Saturday, Dec. 5. • Twitter ..........@GoBearcats | @GoBearcatsFB | @CoachFick • UC has won five-straight American Athletic Conference FB Team Academic Excellence Awards from 2015-20. • Hashtag ............................. #Bearcats | #TEAM | #CinCityPride • During the 2019-20 calendar year, UC was the only school in the NCAA FBS to play for a conference title in MBB (winter • Instagram ................................@GoBearcats | @GoBearcats FB 2019), lacrosse (spring 2019), baseball (spring 2019), volleyball (fall 2019), football (fall 2019) and WBB (winter 2020). • Facebook ................................GoBearcats | GoBearcatsFootball • Fifteen states and four countries are represented on UC’s 2020 roster, which features nearly 62 percent (77/125) Ohio natives, including 31 from Cincinnati. Eighty-three of UC’s 125 players (66.4 percent) are sophomores or below. ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS • UC is 27-5 since 2018, ranking among the top seven teams in CFB in winning percentage during that span (.833). RYAN KOSLEN ............................ Assoc. AD / Football Contact • Cincinnati set a school record with its 17th straight win at home, the fourth-longest active streak among NCAA FBS Phone (O/C): ..................... 513-556-5186 / 513-497-3132 schools. The Bearcats won 15 straight home games from Nov. 8, 1952 to Nov. 13, 1954. Cincinnati is one of four teams Email: ...................................................... [email protected] in the FBS to go undefeated at home the last two-plus seasons, joining Ohio State, Clemson and Notre Dame. Twitter ...........................................................................@Koz_UC • UC ranks in the Top-10 of both national polls for the first time since the end of the 2009 regular season when the Bearcats were No. 4 in the final AP poll and No. 9 in the final Coaches Poll. UC is 9-1 when ranked in the Top-10. Web: ................................................................... GoBEARCATS.com • Cincinnati ranks seventh nationally in scoring defense at 12.0 points allowed per game. The Bearcats are sixth nationally Nippert Stadium Press Box: ................................513-556-1010 in pass efficiency defense (94.76) and ninth in rushing defense (97.0 ypg). • P James Smith needs 106 yards to become UC’s all-time leader in punting yards. He has 9,341 career punting yards and trails only Chet Ervin (9,446/2002-05). • QB Desmond Ridder is responsible for nine TDs (5 rsh/4 pass) in UC’s last two games, averaging 12.2 ypr and 11.6 ypp. 2020 CINCINNATI FOOTBALL GoBearcats GoBearcats GoBearcats gobearcats.com GET CONNECTED: GoBearcatsFootball GoBearcatsFB / Coach Fick GoBearcatsFB bearcats_fb The University of Cincinnati Athletics Communications PRESS BOX SERVICES 2020 QUICK FACTS Office is ready to assist you in to make the experience of All media members will be provided with access to game GENERAL INFORMATION covering UC Athletics productive and rewarding. notes via GoBEARCATS.com. At the quarter breaks and Location .................................................... Cincinnati, OH 45221 halftime, quickie stats and drive charts will be distributed Founded .....................................................................................1819 Richard E. Lindner Center • Suite 860 via email. Following the game, a complete post-game Enrollment ........................................................................... 46,798 2751 O’Varsity Way • Cincinnati, OH 45221-0021 statistics package will be distributed via email and will Conference ....................................................American Athletic contain a scoring summary, final team statistics, final Nickname .........................................................................Bearcats SID Phone .................................................................513-556-5191 individual statistics, complete play-by-play, drive charts Colors ...................................................Red (PMS 186) & Black Press Box Phone....................................................513-556-1010 for both halves, halftime statistics, defensive statistics, Home Field ........................................................Nippert Stadium Website ........................................................... GoBEARCATS.com substitution chart, post-game quotes from both head Surface/Capacity ......... UBU Speed Series M6-M/40,000 coaches and players and post-game notes. President ....................................................Neville G. Pinto, PhD Ryan Koslen ...........................Associate AD/Football Contact Director of Athletics ................................... John Cunningham 513-497-3132 [email protected] LIVE STATS Faculty Representative ................................Brian Hatch, PhD Andre Foushee .........................................................Assistant AD Live in-game statistics will be available via StatBroadcast. 513-556-5182 [email protected] Mollie Radzinski........................................................Assistant