One 12 months faraway from a nine-loss season, Cincinnati will look to change into bowl eligible on Saturday afternoon when it hosts West Virginia in a Huge 12 matchup.
The Bearcats (5-3, 3-2) have turned their fortunes round behind quarterback Brendan Sorsby. The switch from Indiana College is being thought-about for the Davey O’Brien Nationwide Quarterback Award.
Sorsby has thrown for two,108 yards and 15 touchdowns in eight video games, with simply 4 interceptions. The redshirt sophomore is third within the Huge 12 in passing yards and second in whole touchdowns with 21 (six dashing).
The Bearcats are coming off their second bye week of the season and used it to take care of a number of accidents, together with one to beginning proper guard Luke Kandra (leg).
“We’ll know extra about Kandra as we get on the market (this week), Cincinnati coach Scott Satterfield mentioned. “However I really feel like we’re trending in the precise course with him, in addition to (Gavin) Gerhardt, who was banged up just a little, bit however he is again; he was again Sunday. I really feel like we’re again to about full power throughout the board, which might be useful.”
The Mountaineers (4-4, 3-2) enter the sport trying to go over the .500 mark and transfer inside one sport of changing into bowl eligible. West Virginia is also coming off a bye week after recording a 31-26 win at Arizona on Oct. 26.
The Mountaineers are led by quarterback Nicco Marchiol, who threw a 54-yard landing to Traylon Ray within the win over the Wildcats. The landing was West Virginia’s longest go play of the season.
“He performed actually underneath management,” coach Neal Brown mentioned of Marchiol. “He did not do something that harm us, and I imply that in essentially the most constructive method. We put quite a bit on him in our learn sport. We struggled with our snaps, and I assumed he did an excellent job of catching the soccer, which must be a given, however he needed to make some troublesome catches, and I assumed he dealt with that.”
The Bearcats will look to avenge final 12 months’s 42-21 loss to the Mountaineers in West Virginia.
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