This Saturday afternoon, Luke Fickell is planning on making his homecoming to Ohio State memorable. Coming off a dominant 24-14 home win over UCLA in the season opener, Cincinnati is primed to claim their first-ever win against the Buckeyes in Ohio Stadium, and the first victory over Ohio State since 1897, a 24-0 shutout.
Every year, Ohio State usually begins the season having to try and figure out what an opponent is going to do on offense and defense to combat the Buckeyes’ talent disadvantage. They know they’ll see some new and different things, and they also know they’ll see a few things they hadn’t planned on. It is rare, however, when the unknowns…
Justin Fields was electric, as we knew he should be. I was very close on his pass total (25 vs. a projected 26) and completions (18 vs. 21). He managed to outshine my TD total, throwing one more TD pass than I anticipated. I thought that the other QBs would see more action, but Ryan Day left Fields in for the majority of the game, limiting the backup…
Luke Fickell spent five years at Ohio State as a player, starting four of those years at nose tackle for the Buckeyes. He came back to the University as a graduate assistant in 1999 before landing a defensive line job with Akron for 2000 and 2001. He returned to Ohio State in 2002 and remained there through the 2016 season before leaving to take…
Luke Fickell is about to do something no former Ohio State head coach has done since Paul Brown, plus 10 other names and numbers to know.
Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell took part in the American Athletic Conference coaches teleconference on Monday. He did a little bit of recapping this past weekend’s win over UCLA and then took several questions about the Bearcats’ upcoming matchup with the Ohio State Buckeyes. Here are the highlights of what Fickell had to say.
As Ohio State fans have learned over the last few years, success can bring almost as much coach and player turnover as failure does. The 2017 season brings more of the same for both in the linebackers room. Luke Fickell took his talents south as he became the head coach at the University of Cincinnati and Raekwon…
