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AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorterHelping the Cincinnati Bearcats become the first-ever Group of Five conference team to make the College Football Playoff was quite lucrative for head coach Luke…

There will be a lot of noise around Cincinnati football the next two days ahead of its American Athletic Conference championship game against Houston. One thing that won't be heard is…

Notre Dame could make the College Football Playoff and hire a new coach in the same season. The 2021 college football coaching carousel continues to take some wide unexpected turns,…

One of the things Luke Fickell said last week during my visit to Cincinnati really stuck with me Saturday as I watched his star quarterback, Desmond Ridder, wave the…

Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe No. 7 Cincinnati Bearcats jumped out to a 17-0 halftime lead before defeating the No. 9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 24-13 on Saturday.After the…

For No. 7 Cincinnati, history suggests that its route to the College Football Playoff looks like this, and only this: Beat No. 9 Notre Dame on Saturday, then win the last eight games of the…

In the autumn of 1996, near the end of four mostly delightful years covering the Memphis Tigers basketball and SEC football for the Commercial Appeal newspaper, it was time, if…

CINCINNATI — To cap the day’s preparation for the biggest game of his coaching life, Luke Fickell sits surrounded by fans at his weekly radio show, filling them in on the Indiana win and the…

Michael Hickey/Getty ImagesCincinnati head coach Luke Fickell has dismissed rumors linking him with the vacant USC job."Look, I don't talk to anybody—I barely talk to my own family during…