Six Bearcats named to Reese’s Senior Bowl Watch List

Corleone, Kandra, Kiner, Henderson, Minkins and Williams

PFF All-American Third Team List

Bearcats OL Luke Kandra and DL Dontay Corleone named to PFF Preseason All-American Third Team

These two have been racking up awards all offseason

Per GoBearcats:

The Cincinnati men's basketball program will host its second-annual Tip-Off Dinner, presented by the Herche Family Foundation Inc., on Wednesday, Oct. 2 inside Fifth Third Arena (6 – 8 p.m.). This year's event will feature Hall of Fame Broadcaster Marty Brennaman as master of ceremonies and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Roy Williams as the featured speaker

Ben Ahmed's UC offer

He recently reclassed up so up but most have him in their Top 80 nationally.

Non-Conference Schedule
Monday, Nov. 4: Arkansas Pine-Bluff
Friday, Nov. 8: Morehead State
Friday, Nov. 15: Nicholls
Tuesday, Nov. 19: at Northern Kentucky
Saturday, Nov. 23: at Georgia Tech
Wednesday, Nov. 27: Alabama State
Tuesday, Dec. 3: at Villanova (Big 12-BIG EAST Challenge)
Sunday, Dec. 8: Howard
Saturday, Dec. 14: Xavier
Friday, Dec. 20: vs. Dayton (Hoops Classic presented by CareSource at Heritage Bank Center)
Sunday, Dec. 22: Grambling State

Last night, reports are that Indiana transfer Brendan Sorsby will be named the starting quarterback. I know Neil will be at practice today so hopefully Coach Satterfield verifies today.

I know last week, he told us this week he would name a starter.

Per GoBearcats:

Cincinnati Football will recognize the 2008 Bearcats team on Saturday, Sept. 7, against Pitt at Nippert Stadium.

The 2008 campaign featured the first UC victory over Pittsburgh.

The 28-21 home win over the 20th-ranked Panthers on Nov. 22, 2008, helped propel the Bearcats to their first BIG EAST Championship and first-ever BCS Bowl appearance at the Orange Bowl, solidifying the “River City Rivalry” as a must-see matchup in the years that followed.

Cincinnati held a 21-7 third-quarter lead over Pitt in the contest thanks to three touchdown passes from Tony Pike to Marcus Barnett, Mardy Gilyard and Dominick Goodman. The Panthers cut the lead to 28-21 with 1:22 left, but the Bearcats held on for victory as the fans rushed the field.

Goodman’s touchdown catch was the 22nd of his career, which set the school record at the time.

Cincinnati’s receivers on the 2008 team were so prolific that Goodman, Gilyard and Armon Binns all matched or exceeded the previous school record for touchdown catches (21).

The 2008 team went on to face Virginia Tech in 75th Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 2009, in Miami, Fla. The team featured nine all-conference players and dozens of future NFL draft picks, including Gilyard, Pike, Jason and Travis Kelce, Connor Barwin, Kevin Huber, DeAngelo Smith, John Hughes, Derek Wolfe and Mike Mickens – among several other stars.

Tre Tucker catches bomb

Tucker has 3 catches for 66 yards heading into the 4th quarter
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Bearcats make Top 2025 Caliyah “Lil Bit” DeVillasee’s Top 6 along with Georgia, Clemson, UNC, West Virginia and Virginia Tech

Ivan Pace picks ball intended for Jerome Ford

Bearcat on Bearcat crime

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Guys, following up my INsider. But here's the full story on Lovorn. Ole Miss might be the one to watch the most, just because I'm not sure how bad they want him. My guess is a backup option. So he technically has an 'offer,' but not sure if it's committable or not. Tulane and Arkansas State also in good shape. We'll see if UC offers and gets him up for an OV this fall.

Wow, another blow to UC's defensive line. Just a few weeks ago, it was Mikah Coleman who was announced as missing the season. Now, it's Hunt.
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Meant to post this yesterday, but five Big 12 teams ranked in AP poll, led by Utah. Three others with receiving votes. Tough stretch for UC at the end of the season with back to back road games at Kansas State and Iowa State:
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Oklahoma State No. 17
Kansas State No. 18
Arizona No. 21
Kansas No. 22

RVs-- Iowa State, West Virginia, Colorado

Following up my previous INsider, full story on Xavier Spikes. Visited UC July 31 for the first day of fall camp and left with a Bearcats offer. Committed to Georgia State since mid-June:

Another day, another watch list for Dontay Corleone. We'll see how he holds up this season, but good to see him getting some recognition:
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Rolling into week three of fall camp at Higher Ground. Release from UC:


The University of Cincinnati football team held its first scrimmage of fall practice on Saturday, running more than 130 plays over 2.5 hours at Nippert Stadium.

The live practice – the ninth so far – featured various situational plays and included special teams.

Second-year head coach Scott Satterfield was very pleased with the effort and execution by his team.

"This was the first time we really got to play a lot of football, and we had so many scenarios to spot the ball,” Satterfield said. “Today was fun for our guys to get out and play, and it's a chance for us to really evaluate every position. This was the scrimmage where you're really playing everybody and not holding it back. We held Corey Kiner back because we know what he can do, but we got a chance to watch the other four running backs. Every other position, we let the guys play. It'll be great film to evaluate. We went three hours today, so it was a long, tough scrimmage, but it was well-thought out and I thought our guys executed."

Transfer tight end Joe Royer dazzled throughout the scrimmage. The redshirt junior took a short pass and ran more than 50 yards for the practice’s first touchdown just a few plays into the practice. On the next series, he got a long pass from quarterback Brendan Sorsby to set up another touchdown catch for himself.

"It felt good,” Royer said. “They were dialing some things up for me and giving me a chance to make a play. It was kind of like high school again, feeling good and running around out there."

Royer is a Cincinnati native and Elder High School graduate. He played three seasons at Ohio State, but battled injuries. He appeared full healthy on Saturday and has emerged as a team leader during fall camp.

"Joe is a talented player,” Satterfield said. “He has great size as a big target for our quarterbacks with soft hands. He can block and do it all. We're really excited about him. When you think about it, he has so much ball ahead of him. He has not played that much. It was exciting to watch him have some fun today."

After giving up a couple of big plays early, including the touchdown catches by Royer, the defense adjusted and clamped on the offense throughout the second half of the scrimmage.

“The offense had the touchdowns early, and it would have been real easy for our defense to hang their heads,” Satterfield said. “I was proud of how they bounced back. We put them in tough situations at the end of the day down in the red zone, and I thought they did a good job at holding our offense out of the end zone and to field goals. That's what it's going to take.”

Junior cornerback Ormanie Arnold had a touchdown-saving pass breakup in the end zone, while linebackers Jared Bartlett and Brian Simms III made several plays in the back field.

Bartlett, a transfer from West Virginia, and Simms, a redshirt freshman, are expected to be key contributors in the linebacker unit for Cincinnati.

The duo is expected to be joined in the rotation by returning starter Jack Dingle and Central Arkansas transfer Jake Golday, who has flashed all camp with his athleticism, as well as returning redshirt sophomore Jonathan Thompson – among others.

"It felt great today,” Bartlett said. “I remember just walking into the locker room and thinking 'man, I missed this place so much.' Just getting back here with the team and on the field felt really good."

The Bearcats will take Sunday off before returning to Higher Ground Conference and Retreat Center for four more practices next week.

Four star guard who will officially visit UC Oct. 2. Update from our friend Rob Cassidy:

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Guys, someone who doesn't have a UC offer yet but is absolutely worth monitoring is 2025 tight end Gabe Lovorn. He was invited by the UC staff to practice a couple of weeks ago (the first one).
Login to view embedded media Lovorn has some decent offers right now, like Tulane, Memphis and Marshall. He told me he has an Ole Miss offer, but I can't verify if that's a full offer, a partial or even a walk-on spot. But it's clear the Rebels' staff has stayed in touch and invited him on campus.

Lovorn was at UC July 31 for the first day of fall camp. He told me it was his first visit to Cincinnati and he liked the energy, the facilities and how everyone treated him. Lovorn told me he's talked mostly with assistant coach Cortney Braswell and thinks they have a good relationship so far. "He definitely has high energy and it seems like all the players love him and love being around him," Lovorn told me.

The school that seems to be in best here I think, is Tulane. The Wave have made a concerted push here and he visited there in late June. But then he told me he wasn't sure if he'd officially visit there or not. No dates set, but he said he's working on setting up officials to Ole Miss, Arkansas State and Marshall. Ole Miss is OBVIOUSLY the one to watch here. They're looking at him at tight end and linebacker, depending on how the rest of their class shakes out. It seems like most programs like Lovorn as a tight end, but a few are looking at him as a linebacker. He's kind of a tweener, which has hurt his stock and ranking. But those guys, underrated and undervalued, can sometimes be some of a program's best players.

It was good for UC to get him for the unofficial a few weeks ago. But not sure yet if the Bearcats will move further. He's on the radar and like Ole Miss, they seem to be evaluating how much of a run they want to make at Lovorn.

Full story coming.

Award to nation's top center. Here's the release from UC:

Redshirt senior offensive lineman Gavin Gerhardt was named to the Rimington Trophy preseason watch list on Friday.

The Rimington Trophy is annually presented to the most outstanding center in the nation.

Gerhardt was an all-conference performer last year and one of four team captains. He finished the year as the third-highest rated center in the Big 12 according to Pro Football Focus (73.4) and his run block grade of 79.7 was the best among Big 12 centers and sixth-best in the nation.

The Trophy committee worked with Pro Football Focus (PFF) this season to narrow down its list to the top 40 centers. PFF grades every player on every play of every game on how well they execute their given assignment. That play-by-play grading allowed the Trophy committee to create a watchlist based both on nominations from the schools and data provided by PFF.

// ABOUT THE RIMINGTON TROPHY

Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only two-time winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.