Ranking Potential Bowl Matchups for the Cincinnati Bearcats

Here’s something we know for certain: the Cincinnati Bearcats will play in a bowl game this winter for the first time since 2015. This concrete fact illustrates that the Bearcats are a very good team.

Now that we’ve gotten the indisputable facts out of the way, there are still some questions pertaining to UC’s return to bowl season. Most of these inquiries are of a more boilerplate persuasion. Which bowl? Where will it be held? Who will the Bearcats be facing? That sort of thing.

We won’t get the answers to those questions until Sunday when the full slate of bowl games is unveiled, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from doing its best to supply us with a number of likely scenarios. Some of…