TicketsCINCINNATI – Following its comeback win at Kansas on Saturday, Cincinnati received a trio of weekly conference awards on Monday.
Redshirt junior quarterback Brendan Sorsby earned his second Offensive Player of the Week award and redshirt senior kicker Stephen Rusnak received the Special Teams Player of the Week award. UC’s offensive line was named Offensive Line of the Week for the second time this season, the only school to win the award multiple times this year.
It was also announced on Monday that Sorsby was named one of eight Manning Award Stars of the Week, the only Big 12 quarterback to receive that honor this week.
Sorsby passed for 388 yards and two touchdowns and added 52 yards on the ground to finish the 37-34 win at Kansas with 440 total yards. Sorsby completed 29 of 43 passes and his 18 passing first downs are the most by a Big 12 player this season. Sorsby led a game-winning 10-play, 75-yard drive with 1:45 left in the game for a conference-opening road victory in a sold-out David Booth Stadium, completing a fourth-and-10 pass to keep the drive alive.
Rusnak made all three of his field goal attempts and all four of his PATs. His field goals came from 24, 29 and 43 yards. He is the only kicker in the country to have not missed a field goal since the start of the 2024 season.
Cincinnati's offensive line helped pave the way to victory on Saturday, recording eight knockdowns and allowing just one sack, the fewest sacks by Kansas' defense since 2023. It was the first sack UC has allowed the season. Cincinnati is tied with Oregon and Navy for fewest sacks allowed nationally this season. The Bearcats piled up 602 yards of offense, the most against an FBS opponent since 2020. The O-Line received an 87.5 overall grade from the coaching staff.