Cincinnati Football: Ranking Every Game From UC’s 2015 Season
By Chris Bains
The least best, or worst some might say, game of the 2015 football season. There were certainly far more emphatic losses the Bearcats suffered last year but this one ranks at the bottom due to how shellshocked all of us were at the end of the fourth quarter.
Think about how much we built up this team in the previous offseason. I had them pegged as a 10-win team at a minimum with their only road bumps BYU and maybe Memphis. Considering Gunner Kiel was back along with all of his receivers, three of which were invited to the upcoming NFL Combine, it wasn’t a matter of if Cincinnati was going to beat their first AAC opponent on their home turf but by how much.
Then they wound up allowing a kickoff return for a touchdown to Jahad Thomas, another 56-yard score by the same running back, Gunner Kiel threw four interceptions, and ruined a 557-yard performance by the offense in general. And UC did all of this against Temple? The Temple Owls? Really?!
Of course that’s a ridiculous statement in hindsight. Temple of course finished on top of the AAC East standings. But at the time, again, since this team was so chock full of demigods not a month prior to kickoff, it was a heart breaker of all heart breakers that put Cincinnati behind eight ball yet again in the conference standings.
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