Cincy 10.5 favs in Conference Championship Game

[Ziggy1983]

Cincy SHOULD be 10.5 point favorites. They are unbeaten and they beat the Catholics.

[red80 (Mike Higdon)]

@WasSoonerNowCoog

Looks like we will need to try to exploit their OL and try to knock Ridder out of his comfort zone.

Why just exploit the OLine, let’s plow through their DLine as well.

[SamHouston1 (Stephen Hancock)]

@WasSoonerNowCoog

Per PFF , Cincy has a ton of players on AAC 1st-4th teams, however no OL are on the first 3 teams and only 1 on the 4th team. As a comparison PFF has 4 UH OL graded on the first 3 teams. Looks like we will need to try to exploit their OL and try to knock Ridder out of his comfort zone. Only problem is unless we get all the way to him he is likely to scramble a bunch on us.

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That’s a terrible piece. Atlias Bell doesn’t start or play that much, and, well, I’ll just say that some UH guys on this all-conference team shouldn’t be.

[Cougrr24 (Michael McCarthy)]

I think Belk might have something up his sleeve to counter the QB scramble. Y’all remember USF? They had that freshman QB that we were getting pressure on all night long. He was so elusive he was able to escape the pressure and keep plays alive, and it hurt us all game long. Until the last few drives we had David Aneineh spy him wherever he went. I remember a lot of forced throw aways out of bounds once we started that. Cincinnati has way more talent than USF, so if we try to do that all game they’ll probably be able to exploit it, but it might be a wrinkle we can try out on key third downs or something

[banderacoogfan]

Yep and the Connecticut QB broke big chunks against us, I’m really worried about Ridder and can we keep Tune off his backside those are the 2 keys to the game for me

[OldtimeCoog]

ESPN game predictor is Cincy 82.6% UH 17.4%

[Section102 (#theBig12ishardandstuff)]

It would be great if we do disguise blitzes and push Ridder one direction by keeping weak side gaps closed. Ridder doesn’t look all that impressive but his vision when running is amazing. Its frustrating to watch…lol. I think if we bend but don’t break then we have a real shot.

[Kyle_Be_Coogin (Kyle)]

I think it was USF that was running their QB all over us until we put a spy on him in the 4th quarter, Anenih I think… I expect us to have someone on Ridder early in this game.

[Coogjazz (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs)]

The over/under is 53.5 The Over sounds right to me.

[coachv (Chris Vaughan)]

@WasSoonerNowCoog

Per PFF , Cincy has a ton of players on AAC 1st-4th teams, however no OL are on the first 3 teams and only 1 on the 4th team. As a comparison PFF has 4 UH OL graded on the first 3 teams. Looks like we will need to try to exploit their OL and try to knock Ridder out of his comfort zone. Only problem is unless we get all the way to him he is likely to scramble a bunch on us.

And, yet, we can’t run between the tackles. Have to question PFF’s Oline methodology

[RGVCoog]

coaches need to realize that and set up an game plan that mitigates that…

[coachv (Chris Vaughan)]

@Kyle_Be_Coogin

I think it was USF that was running their QB all over us until we put a spy on him in the 4th quarter, Anendih I think… I expect us to have someone on Ridder early in this game.

Maybe he got tired?

[Kyle_Be_Coogin (Kyle)]

No… We specifically started spying late in the 4th in the game I’m talking about…

[coachv (Chris Vaughan)]

Need a sarcasm button

[Kyle_Be_Coogin (Kyle)]

Ahh…

[AL-Coog]

Re-watched 2020 game where Ridder leaving the pocket resulted in big gains or TDs. DL needs to focus on containment instead of sacking the QB. But I’ll let Belk devise the right scheme to slow Cinn down. Need a low scoring game to have a chance to win.

[TucsonCoog (Robert Swearengin)]

Ridder is definitely the key. His running off Option plays and scrambling from the pocket are killers to defenses.

[Marsaave (CoogNation_14)]

And that tops sweep they love. We will see that a lot because it’s their play action. They will run the toss sweep and then play action the same motion then throw deep. Or QB run. We have to speed to keep up. Basically a triple option

[xsmithcoog116 (NIL [ Now It's Legal ])]

We’ve struggled in the past and we’ve struggled this year containing QB runs. Running backs recieving out of the back field have also been unassigned on numerous occasions.

You have to wonder if teams are just scheming Belk up at this point. Fingers crossed one of those has been addressed because our secondary doesn’t want to have to tackle Ridder or Ford in the open.

[TheOriginalTimmyChan (Cash Only)]

Take the under. 50-3 Coogs win.