Cincinnati Wraps Regular Season at TCU

CINCINNATI – The final regular season game for the Cincinnati football team is this Saturday, Nov. 29 at TCU. The Bearcats and Horned Frogs will kick off at 3:30 p.m. at Amon G. Carter Stadium and the game will be televised on FOX.

Cincinnati will be looking to halt a three-game losing skid on Saturday, the most recent setback being a 26-14 defeat at home vs. No. 11 BYU. UC cut the deficit to six, 20-14, with less than five minutes to go, but the Cougars put together a scoring drive that put the game away late.

“That BYU football team is the 11^th-ranked team coming in here,” head coach Scott Satterfield said after the game. “We went toe-to-toe with those guys. We did not play our best ball; we missed three field goals, and we had a fourth-and-one inside the five we didn’t get. All respect to BYU. We just came up short tonight. I thought our guys came out and eagerly wanted to go out and get a win tonight against a good team.”

It was the third in a string of three tough games for Cincinnati, a stretch that began at Utah on Nov. 1 and followed with back-to-back home games vs. Arizona and BYU.

The matchup vs. the Horned Frogs this Saturday will be another against a talented Big 12 team. With just two games left in the 2025 season including a bowl game, the Bearcats have plenty to play for down the stretch. Most importantly, they’ll be playing for each other.

“We’re playing for those guys,” quarterback Brendan Sorsby said. “Play for the fact that you're never going to have the same team year to year. This is a really close team with a bunch of really good individuals on this team. So it's about playing for one another and finding a way to finish it out strong with you guys.”

Blevins and Gerhardt are both sixth-year seniors who joined the program in 2020, while Corleone, Dingle, Jackson, and Lichtenberg have all been at UC since 2021. These six Bearcats are the final players remaining from the historic 2021 College Football Playoff roster.

TCU is led by quarterback Josh Hoover, who ranks among the Top 10 nationally in both passing yards (3,166) and passing touchdowns (25). The Horned Frogs are 4-1 at home this year, which includes a win against SMU back in September.

BROADCAST INFORMATION

The game will be broadcast on FOX with Jason Benetti (play-by-play) and Robert Griffin III (analyst) on the call and Alexa Landestoy reporting from the sidelines. The game will be broadcast on radio via 700 WLW and SiriusXM Channel 83 with Dan Hoard (pxp) and Tony Pike (analyst) on the call.

CINCINNATI CAPS REGULAR SEASON AT TCU

• The Cincinnati football team will look to end a three-game skid at TCU on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. CT in Fort Worth at Amon G. Carter Stadium. The Bearcats and Horned Frogs are two of the top offenses in the Big 12.
• UC leads the Big 12 in yards per play (7.09), ranking 10th nationally, rushing yards per attempt (5.89; No. 5 in the nation), pass yards per attempt (8.4; No. 23) and pass efficiency (155.92, NO. 21). TCU is throwing for 291.5 yards per game, which is second in the conference and 11th in the nation.
• The game will feature two of the Big 12’s and the country’s top quarterbacks in Cincinnati redshirt junior Brendan Sorsby and TCU redshirt junior Josh Hoover. Sorsby ranks second in the Big 12 in passer rating and has a league-best 33 total touchdowns in 2025. Hoover set the TCU school record with 3,920 passing yards in 2024 and has 3,166 yards this season. Hoover ranks among the Top 10 nationally in passing yards and passing touchdowns (25).
• Sorsby is from Denton, Texas, which is approximately 35 miles from Fort Worth. He starred at Lake Dallas High School.
• Hoover is from Heath, Texas. He starred at Rockwall-Heath High School, which is also near the Dallas area.
• Hoover originally committed to play quarterback at Indiana but decommitted right before signing day in Decemeber 2021 and signed with TCU, opening up the Hoosiers to extend Sorsby his first Power 4 college football scholarship offer.

NOTING THE TCU-UC MATCHUP

• The series is tied 2-2 with both teams in Conference USA and playing every year from 2002 to 2004, and facing off last fall.
• Cincinnati ended the 2024 season with a 20-13 loss to TCU on a cold November night in Nippert Stadium. Sorsby threw for 160 yards with one pick and rushed for 93 yards and a score. S Tre Gola-Callard had an interception. Hoover finished 18-of-35 for 212 yards with no touchdowns and one interception.
• The first-ever matchup between the Bearcats and Horned Frogs came in the 2002 season opener. UC trailed 29-14 in the fourth
• quarter, but came back to win 36-29 in overtime. The win began a home-opener win streak that continues to this day. Guidugli
• passed for 284 yards and two touchdowns with four interceptions, and had the game-winning 14-yard rushing touchdown.
• The only other matchup in Fort Worth was a 43-10 victory for the Horned Frogs that gave No. 10 TCU a 10-0 record at the time.

SORSBY IN MIDST OF OUTSTANDING SEASON

• In his second year with the program, Sorsby has taken a leap this year and become one of the better dual-threat quarterbacks in the country. He has completed 184-of-303 passes (60.7%) for 2,518 yards, 24 touchdowns, and just five interceptions. On the ground, Sorsby has rushed for 521 yards and nine scores.
• Sorsby has accounted for at least two touchdowns in every game this season, one of three FBS quarterbacks who can say that (Baylor's Sawyer Robertson and Old Dominion's Colton Joseph). He has 33 touchdowns this year, which is tied for fourth in the country and third-most in a season ever by a Cincinnati quarterback. He is four away from breaking Desmond Ridder's all-time record of 36, set in 2021.
• He is PFF's No. 12-rated quarterback (88.7) and the No. 11 quarterback according to ESPN's Total QBR (81.3).
• Sorsby was named a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien Award, which annually recognizes the best quarterback in the country.
• The two most productive passing games of Sorsby's career have both come on the road in Big 12 play. He threw for 426 yards at Texas Tech in 2024 and had a 388-yard game in a 37-34 comeback win at Kansas on Sept. 27, 2025.

BEARCATS BATTLE NO. 11 BYU CLOSE ON SENIOR NIGHT

• Despite three missed field goals and two second-half turnovers, Cincinnati trailed by only 6 with under five minutes left in the game, but BYU running back LJ Martin bled out the clock before a game-sealing TD run to give the No. 11-ranked Cougars a 26-14 victory over the Bearcats on Senior Night at Nippert Stadium.
• Martin rushed for 222 yards on 32 carries to lead BYU past Cincinnati in the league’s marquee game last weekend. FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff came to Cincinnati for the second time in history and the close game lived up to the billing.
• Sorsby threw for 300 yards and two touchdowns with one interception, the fifth 300-yard passing game of his career.

CINCY BUILDING A RESUME

• Redshirt junior Evan Tengesdahl is the No. 1-rated guard in the Big 12 and fifth in the nation according to PFF (81.6).
• Jake Golday has 102 tackles, which ranks second in the Big 12. He is the first Bearcat with 100+ tackles in a season since Ivan Pace Jr. in 2022 (137 tackles). Golday has led UC in tackles eight times this year.
• Cincinnati ranks fifth in the country in yards per rush (5.89) and 10th in yards per play (7.09), leading the Big 12 in both.
• Cincinnati ranks second in the nation in fourth-down conversion percentage (.842) and is tied for the national lead with fewest sacks allowed (4.0). The Bearcats' offense has allowed just 35 tackles for loss this year, third-fewest in the country and nine fewer than the next Big 12 program.
• Led by Gerhardt and PFF’s No. 5-rated guard in the nation Evan Tengesdahl, the Bearcats have allowed the fewest sacks (4.0) through 11 games in the 30-year history of the Big 12.
• ESPN rates UC as the nation’s 11th-most efficient offense, second only to Utah in the Big 12.
• The Bearcats are led by star redshirt junior quarterback Brendan Sorsby, whose 33 total touchdowns rank tied for fourth in the nation (24 passing, nine rushing). He has recorded at least two touchdowns in every game this season and had an incredible seven-game streak in which he passed for 2+ touchdowns and committed zero turnovers in September and October.
• Senior WR Cyrus Allen has 11 TD catches, two more than any other Big 12 player and third-most in the nation. He is two away from tying the single-season school record for TD receptions set by Marcus Bennett in 2007.