Tickets| CINCINNATI AT MIAMI (OH) | |
| Date | Saturday, Sept. 8 | 8 p.m. ET |
| Venue | Cincinnati, Ohio | Paul Brown Stadium (65,535) |
| Preview Info | Game Notes | Press Conference Video |
| Records | Cincinnati (1-0) | Miami OH (0-1) |
| Head Coaches | Luke Fickell (Second Year) | Chuck Martin (Fifth Year) |
| Series Record | Miami leads 59-56-7 |
| Last Meeting | Sept. 16, 2017 - Cincinnati won 21-17 |
| Live Stats | Live Stats |
| Watch | FOX 19 WXIX | ESPN3 | ESPN App |
| Listen | 102.7 WEBN FM | 700 WLW AM (After Reds Game) | TuneIn Radio |
| @GoBearcatsFB | @GoBEARCATS | |
| Tickets | Buy Tickets |
| Student Information | PBS Shuttle For Students |
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati football team plays longtime rival Miami (OH) in the 123rd Battle for the Victory Bell on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018 at 8 p.m. ET inside Paul Brown Stadium. The game will air on FOX 19 in Cincinnati and via radio on 700 WLW AM and TuneIn.com. If the Reds-Padres game runs long (4:10 p.m. start), the UC-Miami game will start on 102.7 WEBN FM and move to 700 WLW AM after the conclusion of the Reds broadcast.
THE SERIES
Saturday marks the 123rd time the two schools will meet in the second-oldest NCAA FBS rivalry. Miami (Ohio) leads the all-time series 59-56-7 but UC has won 12-straight games, including a 21-17 thriller in Oxford a year ago.
THE COACHES
Luke Fickell was named the 42nd Football Head Coach at the University of Cincinnati in December 2016. He took the reins of UC's program after spending 15 years at his alma mater, Ohio State. A veteran of nearly 20 years coaching at the FBS level, Fickell was a part of nine Big Ten Conference titles (seven as a coach, two as a player) and two national championship squads with 15 postseason games and 12 NFL Draft selections under his belt.
Chuck Martin is in his fifth season as the head coach at Miami (OH) after four years on former UC coach Brian Kelly's staff at Notre Dame (2010-13). Martin was 74-7 in six years at Grand Valley State (2004-09) and is 16-34 at Miami (OH).
STREAKS, STORYLINES, SIDEBARS ...
- The University of Cincinnati football team plays its 131st season in 2018. The program dates to 1885 and is one of the 10 oldest in major college football. UC has won a league title five times in the last 11 years and played in nine bowl games in the last 12 seasons.
- Entering 2018, UC is one of 36 NCAA FBS teams with 100 wins since 2005. The Bearcats' .638 winning percentage since 2007 ranks among the Top-30 teams in the NCAA FBS, winning at least nine games seven times in the last 12 years.
- The Bearcats returned to Nippert Stadium in 2015 after a 20 month, $86-million renovation and drew 222,578 fans in the first year back at Nippert Stadium, a single-season record average of 37, 096.
- UC won back-to-back-to-back American Athletic Conference FB Team Academic Excellence Awards in 2015, 2016 & 2017.
- UC was picked fourth in the American Athletic Conference Preseason poll and is the only team in the conference to return its leading rusher (Gerrid Doaks), passer (Hayden Moore) and receiver (Kahlil Lewis) from the 2017 season.
- Almost sixty-nine percent of UC's roster (77 of 112) is made of up freshmen, RS freshmen and sophomores.
- UC is one of the five youngest teams in college football, featuring 81 underclassmen (29 sophomores, 17 redshirt freshmen, 35 true freshmen) on its 112-person roster.
- The 2018 roster is composed of student-athletes from 16 states and five countries. Sixty-four Bearcats hail from Ohio, with 24 from Cincinnati, followed in order by Florida (10), Georgia (9), Indiana (6), Illinois (4), Kentucky (4), Virginia (4), Alabama (3), Michigan (2) with single players from California, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.
- Cincinnati is the only team in The American that does not play a home game in the first two weeks of the season.
- UC turned in an impressive showing in Week 1 as the Bearcats erased an early 10-0 deficit on its way to a 26-17 win at UCLA in Pasadena. The Bearcats scored 17 second-quarter points to take the lead into halftime and didn't trail the rest of the way, snapping UCLA's 10-game, non-conference winning streak at the Rose Bowl.
- LB Bryan Wright was named the AAC Co-Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 3 after recording four tackles, including two sacks and three tackles for loss, and had a pivotal forced fumble in the fourth quarter that resulted in the go-ahead safety at UCLA.
- RB Michael Warren II earned a spot on the league's weekly honor roll following the win at UCLA. Warren tallied a career-high 142 yards on 35 carries with a career-best three touchdowns.