There was one elite defense on the field at Michigan Stadium this past Saturday and there was one that would like to get to that level. Luke Fickell and Marcus Freeman no doubt want to install a similarly defensively dominant unit at Cincinnati just like Jim Harbaugh has at Michigan. Well, maybe not just like Harbaugh what with Fickell and Freeman both being Ohio State guys, but you get the point.
Fickell is a former defensive coordinator and he inherited a team that had a more effective defense than offense in 2016. The group looked pretty good against Austin Peay in the opener, but how did things fare when a top 10 team was lining up across the line of scrimmage?