For the first time in 10 years, Cincinnati Bearcats defeated a ranked football team. Cincinnati defeated UCF on Friday by the final score of 27-24, to improve to 4-1 overall and 1-0 in conference play in 2019.
This game was, well for lack of a better word, weird.
UCF completely dominated the first quarter and much of the first half in terms of overall time of possession, yards, and really everything else. At one point, UCF had run 27 plays, to 5 for Cincinnati. The first two possessions were quite different - UCF ran a 12 play drive that ended in a field goal, followed by a 16 play drive that ended in a redzone interception.