TicketsCINCINNATI – The No. 7 University of Cincinnati football team starts a three-game homestand on Saturday, Oct. 31 against Memphis at noon ET inside Nippert Stadium. The 4-0 (2-0 American Athletic Conference) Bearcats put a 16-game home winning streak on the line and will look to snap a five-game slide against the Tigers (3-1, 2-1 AAC).
UC is coming off a 42-13 win at No. 16 SMU on Oct. 24 following a three-week layoff. Memphis knocked off Temple last week and has wins over UCF and Arkansas State with a 30-27 loss at SMU on Oct. 3 the lone blemish on its record.
Saturday's game airs on ESPN and 700 WLW AM. Find out how to watch, listen and more.
7 CINCINNATI BEARCATS
Head Coach Luke Fickell
Record at Cincinnati 30-13 (Fourth Year)
Overall Record 36-20 (Fifth Year)
RV MEMPHIS TIGERS
Head Coach Ryan Silverfield
Record at School 3-2 (First Year)
Overall Record Same
GAME INFORMATION
Facility Nippert Stadium
Capacity 40,000
TV ESPN
Radio 700 WLW AM / Sirius 206 / XM 201 / Internet 964
Online TuneIn.com
Series Record Memphis leads 23-13
At Cincinnati Tied 8-8
Last Meeting Dec. 7, 2019 - UM won 29-24
ON THE AIR
TV: ESPN
• Play-by-Play: Mark Jones
• Analyst: Dusty Dvoracek
• Sideline: Paul Carcaterra
• Online: WatchESPN.com
• Mobile App: ESPN
RADIO: BEARCATS SPORTS NETWORK
• Play-by-Play: Dan Hoard
• Analyst: Jim Kelly Jr.
• Sideline Reporter: Tony Pike
• Host/Engineer: Mo Egger
• Local: 700 WLW AM
• Satellite: Sirius 206 / XM 201 / Internet 964
• Online: Tunein.com / iHeartMedia App
• Mobile App: TuneIn (search Cincinnati Bearcats)
THE SERIES
Saturday marks the 37th meeting all-time between the two squads and third in less than a calendar year. Memphis holds a 23-13 advantage and have won five in-a-row in a series which started in 1984. The Bearcats and Tigers met twice last year, eight days apart in the regular-season finale and AAC title game.
THE COACHES
LUKE FICKELL, the 2018 American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, is in his fourth season at UC. He has led UC to back-to-back 11-win seasons, the 2019 AAC East Division Championship along with consecutive bowl-game wins in the 2018 Military Bowl and 2019 TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl. A veteran of 20 years in the FBS ranks, Fickell has been a part of two national championship squads, nine conference title-winning teams (seven as a coach, two as a player at Ohio State) with 16 postseason games and 13 NFL Draft selections under his belt.
Ryan Silverfield is in his fourth year at Memphis and first as the program's head coach. He previously served as the Tigers' deputy head coach from 2016-19. Prior to heading to Memphis, Silverfield had previous coaching stints at Arizona State, Toledo, the Minnesota Vikings, UCF and Jacksonville.
STREAKS, STORYLINES, SIDEBARS ...
• UC plays its 133rd football season in 2020. The Bearcats program dates to 1885 and is one of the 10 oldest in the NCAA FBS. UC has won a league title five times in the last 13 years and has played 11 bowl games in the past 14 years.
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC lost games at Nebraska and vs. Miami (OH) and Western Michigan. The APSU game was moved from Sept. 3 to Sept. 19 and the Bearcats played Army West Point on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Nippert Stadium. UC's AAC game at Tulsa was moved from Saturday, Oct. 10 to Saturday, Dec. 5.
• UC has won five-straight American Athletic Conference FB Team Academic Excellence Awards from 2015-20.
• During the 2019-20 calendar year, UC was the only school in the NCAA FBS to play for a conference title in MBB (winter 2019), lacrosse (spring 2019), baseball (spring 2019), volleyball (fall 2019), football (fall 2019) and WBB (winter 2020).
• Fifteen states and four countries are represented on UC's 2020 roster, which features nearly 62 percent (77/125) Ohio natives, including 31 from Cincinnati. Eighty-three of UC's 125 players (66.4 percent) are sophomores or below.
UC is 26-5 since 2018, ranking among the top seven teams in CFB in winning percentage during that span (.833).
• Cincinnati set a school record with its 16th straight win at home, the fourth-longest active streak among NCAA FBS schools. The Bearcats won 15 straight home games from Nov. 8, 1952 to Nov. 13, 1954. Cincinnati is one of four teams in the FBS to go undefeated at home the last two-plus seasons, joining Ohio State, Clemson and Notre Dame.
• QB Desmond Ridder earned player of the week accolades from Walter Camp, the AAC, Davey O'Brien Foundation and the Manning Award after a standout performance at SMU. The junior rushed eight times for a career-best 179 yards, finished 13-of-21 passing for 126 yards, a TD and zero sacks. The 179 yards is a single-game UC QB rushing record and his five 100-yard games is the most ever for a UC signal caller. He a 91-yard TD scamper, a career-long run which is tied for the longest rush and longest rushing TD in school history.
UC is coming off a 42-13 win at No. 16 SMU on Oct. 24 following a three-week layoff. Memphis knocked off Temple last week and has wins over UCF and Arkansas State with a 30-27 loss at SMU on Oct. 3 the lone blemish on its record.
Saturday's game airs on ESPN and 700 WLW AM. Find out how to watch, listen and more.
7 CINCINNATI BEARCATS
Head Coach Luke Fickell
Record at Cincinnati 30-13 (Fourth Year)
Overall Record 36-20 (Fifth Year)
RV MEMPHIS TIGERS
Head Coach Ryan Silverfield
Record at School 3-2 (First Year)
Overall Record Same
GAME INFORMATION
Facility Nippert Stadium
Capacity 40,000
TV ESPN
Radio 700 WLW AM / Sirius 206 / XM 201 / Internet 964
Online TuneIn.com
Series Record Memphis leads 23-13
At Cincinnati Tied 8-8
Last Meeting Dec. 7, 2019 - UM won 29-24
ON THE AIR
TV: ESPN
• Play-by-Play: Mark Jones
• Analyst: Dusty Dvoracek
• Sideline: Paul Carcaterra
• Online: WatchESPN.com
• Mobile App: ESPN
RADIO: BEARCATS SPORTS NETWORK
• Play-by-Play: Dan Hoard
• Analyst: Jim Kelly Jr.
• Sideline Reporter: Tony Pike
• Host/Engineer: Mo Egger
• Local: 700 WLW AM
• Satellite: Sirius 206 / XM 201 / Internet 964
• Online: Tunein.com / iHeartMedia App
• Mobile App: TuneIn (search Cincinnati Bearcats)
THE SERIES
Saturday marks the 37th meeting all-time between the two squads and third in less than a calendar year. Memphis holds a 23-13 advantage and have won five in-a-row in a series which started in 1984. The Bearcats and Tigers met twice last year, eight days apart in the regular-season finale and AAC title game.
THE COACHES
LUKE FICKELL, the 2018 American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, is in his fourth season at UC. He has led UC to back-to-back 11-win seasons, the 2019 AAC East Division Championship along with consecutive bowl-game wins in the 2018 Military Bowl and 2019 TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl. A veteran of 20 years in the FBS ranks, Fickell has been a part of two national championship squads, nine conference title-winning teams (seven as a coach, two as a player at Ohio State) with 16 postseason games and 13 NFL Draft selections under his belt.
Ryan Silverfield is in his fourth year at Memphis and first as the program's head coach. He previously served as the Tigers' deputy head coach from 2016-19. Prior to heading to Memphis, Silverfield had previous coaching stints at Arizona State, Toledo, the Minnesota Vikings, UCF and Jacksonville.
STREAKS, STORYLINES, SIDEBARS ...
• UC plays its 133rd football season in 2020. The Bearcats program dates to 1885 and is one of the 10 oldest in the NCAA FBS. UC has won a league title five times in the last 13 years and has played 11 bowl games in the past 14 years.
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC lost games at Nebraska and vs. Miami (OH) and Western Michigan. The APSU game was moved from Sept. 3 to Sept. 19 and the Bearcats played Army West Point on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Nippert Stadium. UC's AAC game at Tulsa was moved from Saturday, Oct. 10 to Saturday, Dec. 5.
• UC has won five-straight American Athletic Conference FB Team Academic Excellence Awards from 2015-20.
• During the 2019-20 calendar year, UC was the only school in the NCAA FBS to play for a conference title in MBB (winter 2019), lacrosse (spring 2019), baseball (spring 2019), volleyball (fall 2019), football (fall 2019) and WBB (winter 2020).
• Fifteen states and four countries are represented on UC's 2020 roster, which features nearly 62 percent (77/125) Ohio natives, including 31 from Cincinnati. Eighty-three of UC's 125 players (66.4 percent) are sophomores or below.
UC is 26-5 since 2018, ranking among the top seven teams in CFB in winning percentage during that span (.833).
• Cincinnati set a school record with its 16th straight win at home, the fourth-longest active streak among NCAA FBS schools. The Bearcats won 15 straight home games from Nov. 8, 1952 to Nov. 13, 1954. Cincinnati is one of four teams in the FBS to go undefeated at home the last two-plus seasons, joining Ohio State, Clemson and Notre Dame.
• QB Desmond Ridder earned player of the week accolades from Walter Camp, the AAC, Davey O'Brien Foundation and the Manning Award after a standout performance at SMU. The junior rushed eight times for a career-best 179 yards, finished 13-of-21 passing for 126 yards, a TD and zero sacks. The 179 yards is a single-game UC QB rushing record and his five 100-yard games is the most ever for a UC signal caller. He a 91-yard TD scamper, a career-long run which is tied for the longest rush and longest rushing TD in school history.