While the Cincinnati Bearcats failed to improve in just about every area last season, the mercifully final season of the Tommy Tuberville era, they did make steps forward in creating pressure, accumulating nearly 50 percent more sacks in 2016 as they had in 2015.
Put the balloons away, though, that wasn’t supposed to make you want to celebrate. The Bearcats still ranked near the cellar of the American Athletic Conference in quarterback takedowns (19), beating out only UConn (17) and East Carolina (8), who had the fewest sacks in the entire country.
So will the positive trend, as mild as it was, continue in 2017?