Yesterday marked a historic matchup between Top 10 ranked opponents. The No.7 Cincinnati Bearcats visited the No.9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and left with a huge dub, winning 24-13. Once Cincinnati jumped to a 17-0 lead there was no looking back. Notre Dame hadn’t trailed an opponent at home by 17 points in over 20 years. The highly anticipated matchup revealed the boys versus the men.
The key stat was the Bearcats winning the takeaway battle, they won 3-1. Cincinnati stopped Notre Dame from scoring early when Darrian Beavers forced an errant pass from Jack Coan that Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner intercepted. Myjai Sanders got great pressure on Tyler Buchner that Deshawn Pace intercepted that later turned into a Leonard Taylor touchdown. After Taylor’s touchdown, Chris Tyree fumbled the kickoff on the next play and Wilson Huber recovered, an ineligible lineman being downfield stopped a Desmond Ridder to Jerome Ford touchdown, so they had to settle for a Cole Smith field goal, but the three turnovers gave the Bearcats a 10-0 lead that they never looked back from.
Ridder was stripped sacked by Isaiah Foskey in the third quarter which led to a Notre Dame touchdown, but that was the only turnover miscue and for the Bearcats win the turnover battle on the road was a huge stat to win.
