It's a Great Day to be a Bearcats Fan!

What a great day it was yesterday for college sports in Ohio. After spending the afternoon watching Ohio State dominate the Wolverines, I spent my evening at my alma mater - drinking beer at Nippert Stadium, watching the Cincinnati Bearcats beat the Pitt Panters, for the first time, becoming one game closer to a BSC bowl game. (Come on OSU fans. You have to be excited about this too!)

I know that until two seasons ago, when UC spoiled Rutgers chances of having a perfect season, many people had forgotten that UC even had a football season. And I'm sure that during that timespan, if it wasn't for the stadium being one of the few college stadiums left that still serves beer, the fan base would have probably been smaller and they probably wouldn't have had anyone in attendance. But the tides have turned and the Bearcats are looking good and strong. As long as we don't follow in the footsteps of most Ohio sport's teams and choke next week against Syracuse, the Bearcat football team will have earned their first ever conference title and their first ever BCS bid.

Plagued with injuries, the Bearcats have continued to rally. Besides a loss to an extremely talented Oklahoma team and a loss in a unBearcat-like performance at UConn, the team has continued to do what they have needed to do each week. Because of injuries at the quarterback position, they have had to play with 4 different quarterbacks, with their current quarterback, Tony Pike, playing with a broken arm. And the quarterbacks aren't the only ones dealing with injuries. But it speaks to the quality of the team; not too many teams out there could sustain injuries like that and continue to win.

Now we just wait until next week and hope that Syracuse doesn't spoil our success like we did to Rutgers in 2006. We wait until next week and hope that we earn our BCS bowl game.