Wrapping Up Week 9 For Cincinnati’s 2014 Football Opponents

The Cincinnati Bearcats’ 2014 football season is ramping up as the meat of ACC play approaches. UC moved to 2-1 in the conference with a win over the South Florida Bulls on Friday night. They’ll travel to New Orleans, Louisiana to face Tulane this Friday in an effort to move to 3-1. The Green Wave were on a bye this past week, as all of Cincinnati’s opponents are it seems before they take on the Bearcats, but let’s check in on the rest of the AAC.

Tulane: BYE

East Carolina: W, 31-21 vs UConn

The Pirates looked shaky yet again in a relatively close win over the UConn Huskies. ECU was only up by a touchdown at halftime and were actually tied with Connecticut 21-21 at the close of the third quarter. The Pirates shouldn’t be tied with the Huskies at any moment in a game other than the opening kickoff. But East Carolina, despite rolling up almost 600 yards of total offense, were penalized 11 times for 105 yards and threw for just 6.8 yards per pass. That’s not the efficiency well-oiled Shane Carden machine we’ve grown to know and fear.

UConn: L, 31-21 vs. East Carolina

The Huskies showed some life on offense, throwing for more than 300 yards for the first time since Rutgers in late November of last year. But the Pirates aren’t exactly Alabama defensively and UConn still has major issues in the running game. The Huskies are still a bottom-half AAC team but at least they looked better this week.

Temple: L, 34-14 vs. Central Florida

The wheels have fallen off offensively for the Owls. Against a UCF defense that allows over 300 yards per game, Temple scraped out just 182 on Saturday night. 3.1 yards per play is terrible in every sense of the phrase and won’t win the Owls many more games this year.

Houston: BYE