Just as a sidenote....because of West Virginia's loss to Pitt yesterday, Cincinnati clinched the BCS game REGARDLESS to the outcome of today's game against Syracuse. Not sure if that affects your play on the Bearcats or not, but just wanted to make you aware...
Good Luck today.
goose...thanks for the heads up...here is an article on the situation...
BCS not end of the story
UC needs win today for outright Big East title
By Bill Koch
The job isn't finished yet.
Shortly after Pittsburgh came back to post a 19-15 victory over West Virginia on Friday afternoon, clinching a Big East co-championship and Bowl Championship Series bowl game for the University of Cincinnati football team, coach Brian Kelly walked onto the Nippert Stadium turf and made sure his players understood that there's more work to be done.
"I told them they're going to a BCS bowl game, but we want that to be as the undisputed champs," Kelly said. "We don't want to be co-champs. We want to win this thing. They understand that."
Kelly was in the coaches' locker room at the Lindner Center preparing for practice when he heard the hooting and hollering from his players who were watching the Pitt-West Virginia game on television.
He tuned in to see the final 52 seconds of Pitt's victory and took the practice field knowing that he had led the Bearcats to their first BCS bowl game in the school's history, probably the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1 in Miami.
No. 16 UC can clinch the title outright with a win over Syracuse (3-8 overall, 1-5 Big East) at noon today at Nippert Stadium.
"Our kids will be loose," Kelly said. "They'll play hard."
so based on this article i think they will play hard....also a syracuse letdown from their big win over nd should not be discounted....
