Only Tulane kept the final margin of victory under 20 points. With the exception of that Navy squad, the Bearcats have blown the doors off every Group of 5 team theyвЂ™ve played this fall. TheyвЂ™re now tasked with stopping an angry Fickell squad that scores more points than all but eight other teams in the subdivision and allows fewer than only one.Д¬an Cincinnati cover a three-touchdown spread on the road? Considering Navy was able to beat Tulsa without completing a single pass, IвЂ™m going to lean yes. Neither their scoring offense nor scoring defense rank above the bottom third of FBS teams. The Golden Hurricane are adrift once more in the American, where theyвЂ™ve only had two winning seasons in eight years since joining.

Instead, Tulsa is getting Cincy after a week of disrespect and days after a closer-than-expected win over 1-7 Tulane. Ideally, Tulsa-Cincinnati would have been some sort of trap game where the comfortably ranked favorite overlooks a viable conference foe. Hooooo buddy, this is not how the Golden Hurricane wanted to see the Bearcats. All lines are provided by Tipico Sportsbook. All we know is that, as of Week 10, itвЂ™s absolutely brutal for Cincinnati and anyone else attempting to climb from the primordial ooze of the Group of 5.ДЄnyway, Week 10 is here and the Bearcats get to play angry. Or maybe itвЂ™s part of a larger conspiracy to push rising coaches like Luke Fickell to Power 5 positions before eventually spinning that group into its own Super League. Maybe itвЂ™s a not-so-subtle endorsement for an expanded playoff field and the television revenue that would come with it. Maybe the point is to create outrage for a ranking that rarely holds up by the tail end of a chaotic football season. Vanderbilt and Kansas have a better chance of making it to the playoff in any given year than Cincinnati, or UCF, or Houston, simply because their preseason odds arenвЂ™t zero. Unless the four-team playoff is angling for its own destruction - and since this is college football we can all agree there is no angle too ridiculous to be considered - the establishment is sending a clear message. Given both 7-1 teams are unranked by the committee, the answer is probably a firm no. It remains to be seen whether speculative future wins over SMU (in the regular season) or Houston (in the AAC title game) would move the needle.

Still, a resume devoid of other ranked opponents means it does not control its own destiny on the road to a four-team playoff. Their crime? Playing in the AAC.Д¬incinnati has dispensed with every obstacle in its path and remains the вЂњ1вЂќ in 10th-ranked Notre DameвЂ™s 7-1 record. 2 in the AP Top 25, all the way down at sixth. The first iteration of the ratings that will ultimately determine 2021вЂ™s national champion placed the Bearcats, No. The newest College Football Playoff rankings are out.

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