[Postgame Thread] West Virginia Defeats Cincinnati 45-42

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Cincinnati	7	14	7	14	42
West Virginia	0	14	7	24	45

[u/pilluwed]

You might think this game was fun to watch live in person.

It was not.

[u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT → u/pilluwed]

It's fun to watch old-school Big 12 football as a neutral tho. That's 4 straight weeks y'all have given up 40. What's going on?

[u/Ssjts → u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT]

Our defense is non-existant.

[u/ID_Poobaru → u/Ssjts]

Come on over to the PAC-12, none of us want to play defense out here except for Wazzu

[u/FoundTheShithead → u/ID_Poobaru]

West Virginia State is a bit of a mouthful, tho.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/FoundTheShithead]

It also already exists (HBCU near Charleston).

[u/Desperado53 → u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT]

It’s so fun when it isn’t you

[u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT → u/Desperado53]

It's been us all year lmao the only games our defense was remotely competent was against Illinois and Minnesota

[u/Hulkodium → u/Desperado53]

Idk man. I always enjoyed track meets

[u/Desperado53 → u/Hulkodium]

Yeah well you guys won most of them so I bet lol

[u/Fraegtgaortd → u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT]

We blew all our NIL money on offense so we have linebackers that can’t tackle and if someone told me we didn’t have a DB that could run faster than a 4.7 I’d believe them

[u/witsel85 → u/Fraegtgaortd]

Honestly at this point they may as well chuck the wide receivers from the bottom of the depth chart in at DB, they literally could not be worse

[u/Havins → u/Fraegtgaortd]

If McAfee would stop giving kids second chances on the field goal kick we’d have enough NIL to field a competent D.

[u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Over 1200 yards between the two teams. Defense took the day off.

[u/Ok-Soil-5133 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Defense took the season off for West Virginia

[u/GeospatialMAD → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

Defense never arrived at West Virginia

[u/Stags304 → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

Generationally bad imo.

2012 defense: 38.1 opponent PPG (117th of 124 in FBS)

2026 defense: 32.7 opponent PPG (127th of 138 in FBS)

[u/whitemamba83 → u/Stags304]

No “imo” about it. Statistically and historically miserable.

[u/Fraegtgaortd → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Big 12 throwback with two Big East teams

[u/Fungul_Penis → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Year*

[u/Set-Admirable → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Our defense is unemployed.

[u/cnpeters → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

I’m not sure WVU doesn’t just keep the offense on the field when they don’t have the ball

[u/HBPhilly1 → u/cnpeters]

Could you imagine a team only doing that. That would wild

[u/conchobor → u/HBPhilly1]

If injuries and needing a breather weren’t things, I would genuinely be open to trying it at this point.

[u/rageking5 → u/cnpeters]

Can't be any worse 

[u/DigitalBagel8899 → u/cnpeters]

We honestly should just go for onside kicks every kickoff.

[u/Ok_Concentrate3165 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Good lord, might as well have put turnstiles out there instead of secondaries

[u/jim_shushu → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Vintage Rich Rod

[u/DarthNobody14 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Big 12 at its finest

[u/Simple_Gold4157 → u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11]

Well, WVU defense took the season off (am WVU fan)

[u/TheBoilerCat]

I don’t think I can add any more Scott Satterfield complaints that I haven’t already gone over in the last four years.

Thank you John Cunningham for bringing this plague into this program, even though everyone but you could see this coming.

[u/oldschool_shawn → u/TheBoilerCat]

I can't wait until he's gone. Bowl game or not, there is no way he should be back next season.

[u/TheBoilerCat → u/oldschool_shawn]

I’ve been optimistic for maybe 4 games out of his entire tenure. There’s no point even caring about the rest of this season because it’s all so predictable. I wish I could have a better attitude about it for the players representing the university, but it just isn’t there.

[u/SquadPoopy → u/TheBoilerCat]

I’m a Gator fan but grew up in Cincinnati so I follow the Bearcats recreationally, and I have no fucking clue why Satterfield was hired. It felt like deliberate sabotage.

[u/TheBoilerCat → u/SquadPoopy]

It’s even worse when you see the news about the hire and immediately know that both of your football programs are fucked in one fell swoop.

It was bad then, it’s been worse than I could’ve possibly imagined to actually see play out.

[u/rile-u-up]

Not a WVU primary fan but I pull for them (don't look at my other flair), I feel like being mediocre under rich rod v2 is 1000x better than being mediocre under Neal fucking Brown. at least the games are fun as hell to watch

[u/EnvironmentRare2655 → u/rile-u-up]

While that’s true, I don’t think the WVU administration was aiming for “probably better than Neal Brown” with this hire.

[u/undeniableregarded → u/EnvironmentRare2655]

Oh God we're fucked

[u/Stags304 → u/rile-u-up]

The thing that stands out to me is we are legit good in 2/3 phases of the game. I couldn't say that with Neal Brown.

[u/whitemamba83 → u/rile-u-up]

We’ve gotten a little bit worse with every hire since Rich Rod 1.0. Just look at the winning percentages.

[u/solomonrooney]

West Virginia might legitimately be the best offense and worst defense combo I have ever seen.

[u/Attilasrevenge → u/solomonrooney]

It's not even the best offense worst defense combo in WVU history

[u/Dun_Guuf → u/Attilasrevenge]

They're working on it

[u/Attilasrevenge → u/Dun_Guuf]

2012 was a work of beauty. 70-63 puts that team in a different stratosphere

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Attilasrevenge]

I thought I was safe coming into this thread, but nope. Retraumatized.

[u/rageking5 → u/Attilasrevenge]

But then they had some stinkers with ttech and kstate right after that 

[u/Stags304 → u/Attilasrevenge]

9th best offense in the country

8th worst defense in the country

[u/sloBrodanChillosevic → u/Attilasrevenge]

Beautiful game that I still think about sometimes

[u/Chris-P-Creme → u/solomonrooney]

2016 Texas Tech was captained by Pat Mahomes and scored 43.7 ppg. They did not go to a bowl game.

[u/Alehud42 → u/solomonrooney]

Have you seen the Dallas Cowboys?

[u/Prior-Measurement619 → u/solomonrooney]

usc with Caleb williams was up there

[u/joeveralls]

Can we please leave Satt in morgantown?

[u/TheBoilerCat → u/joeveralls]

Easier to name the Big 12 college towns he hasn’t deserved to be left stranded in.

[u/Aggressive-Net-6547 → u/TheBoilerCat]

Your flair combo brings me great pleasure

[u/chubsly → u/joeveralls]

I prefer we fire him into the sun.

[u/DavidGoetta → u/chubsly]

If we do, would we still have to pay his buy out?

[u/chubsly → u/DavidGoetta]

Send it with him in gold bars for all I care

[u/don_keydick_42069 → u/chubsly]

Its so ridiculous. Wyler or one of the linders cant pony up a couple million to can this guy and save the program? They invest 100x as much on athletic buildings

[u/joeveralls → u/don_keydick_42069]

Wyler is apparently why Satt got hired in the first place

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/joeveralls]

Only if y’all promise that you leave your OL coach with him.

Honestly, just promote that guy, actually. He’s had phenomenal OLs every single year at Cincy for a while now. Satt’s ability to waste the opportunity is elite.

[u/MediumStrange → u/joeveralls]

It's closer to his home of north Carolina anyways.

I swear it we hire a coach from North Carolina in basketball or football again I'm going to crash out.

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

When I say “we won a conference game” I feel like the parents in The Little Giants when they yelled “we got a yard!”

[u/TheStinkyPoopy]

Thanks Cinci, now we’re stuck with Alley for the season

[u/don_keydick_42069 → u/TheStinkyPoopy]

We're stuck with satterfield....

[u/TZ427 → u/TheStinkyPoopy]

No chance. We might’ve won but we still gave up 600 yards again

[u/TheStinkyPoopy → u/TZ427]

Rich isn’t gonna fire him still

[u/HBPhilly1 → u/TheStinkyPoopy]

Yea he’s for sure here till season end sadly. Earliest would be the buy

[u/GeospatialMAD → u/TheStinkyPoopy]

Firing him isn't going to make this FCS level defense all of a sudden become the 85 Bears

[u/Stags304 → u/GeospatialMAD]

Our best transfer was a 4* safety. We have the players.

[u/GeospatialMAD → u/Stags304]

Sure doesn't look like it. Slow, weak, and poor tackling. Changing coaching only fixes one of those things right now. We're still going to be a step too slow and a secondary like Swiss cheese

[u/TheStinkyPoopy → u/GeospatialMAD]

Where did I say it would?

[u/GeospatialMAD → u/TheStinkyPoopy]

Just saying firing him now versus end of November isn't going to make much of a difference

[u/MrTheSpork]

Scott Satterfield is a football terrorist. Now excuse me while I go watch the Loons lose by four goals.

[u/chubsly → u/MrTheSpork]

Scott Satterfield is a terrorist.

[u/Zloggt → u/MrTheSpork]

We still haven’t gotten a big FBS coach firing this year…

…which probably bothers Scott enough to try and make himself the first and foremost candidate on the list by the way he managed this game lol

[u/bryuce123]

Stoppable force vs movable object. Anyway fire satterfield. Leave him in the blue ridge mountains

[u/Aggressive-Net-6547 → u/bryuce123]

Youre welcome <3

[u/MediumStrange → u/Aggressive-Net-6547]

At least you guys and Pitt are bad too. That's my only consolation.

[u/Shekky_Shabazz71]

As a WVU fan I get the pleasure of watching the two best offenses in the Big 12 duke it out every week. WVU and whoever they are playing.

[u/ProposalSilent4582]

Best the West Virginia defense has played all season. They got a couple stops, which is 2 more than every other game combined. 

West Virginia would be undefeated if they could get 2 more stops in every game they lost. Defense is atrocious as always and offense has to pick up the slack and play near perfect 

[u/zanglin → u/ProposalSilent4582]

Except the game we lost by 21

[u/Stags304 → u/ProposalSilent4582]

We'd probably be 5-1 if we would have gotten 3 more stops a game.

[u/Flaky_Rhubarb_8208]

michael hawkins is an absolute stud 

[u/madmaley]

Fire Satt. Baseball is rolling, basketball is looking promising with Calhoun. We just need to fire Satt and get a good up and coming coach in. Satt's buyout is not large. Can his ass and get someone that can motivate donors and coach

[u/TimeLordDoctor105 → u/madmaley]

Guess I'm becoming a baseball fan at this rate. Because football is not it as long as Satt is the coach.

[u/madmaley → u/TimeLordDoctor105]

Baseball looks really good this season. Looking even better than the last 2 seasons. Should be another post season and hopefully even deeper run than the last 2 years.

[u/Local_Still1769 → u/madmaley]

If history has taught me anything its that any good coach we get will eventually be poached

[u/EERgasm]

Hawkins stat line is nuts

25/33 464 yds 3 TDs 26 car 77 TDs 2 TD

[u/DigitalBagel8899 → u/EERgasm]

Dude would be in Heisman contention if our defense even had a pulse.

[u/tacowithcheeese]

This truly was a Big 12 game

[u/CumAssault → u/tacowithcheeese]

Hey new Big 12 is defense focused weirdly. Rich Rod bringing back all offense to WVU

[u/Set-Admirable]

That was an awful game.

I will give them credit, though, they got a stop when it mattered. And the offense came to win.

[u/TheSpacePopeIX → u/Set-Admirable]

That Run Punt Option on Cinci’s last possession was actually sick. They had us at 3rd and 9 on our own one yard line. Kind of wild that we won actually.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/TheSpacePopeIX]

Hawkins was great passing all day, and we had, what, three or four receivers make gigantic plays. I love our offense. Just wish the defense had a pulse for more than 6 plays a game.

[u/meesahdayoh]

I'll take the win, but can we please dump Zac Alley after this game.

Winning games while allowing 40+ points is unsustainable.

[u/fansofomar]

I think a final score of 70-63 is a possibility this season. Could you imagine giving up 63 points in a game?

[u/GeospatialMAD → u/fansofomar]

That's absurd. What kind of defense gives up 63 points in a game?

;)

[u/NanoBuc]

WV defense is so ass but their offense is fun to watch. Every game they play is a shootout

[u/Gocrazyfut]

If the opposing team’s crowd celebrates your punt team coming out like a touchdown, you’ve probably made the wrong decision. (Albeit it was the greatest punt of all time)

Michael Hawkins is Leading us to the playoff next year. We are not worthy

[u/Rangertexas9]

Cart driver MVP and DUI. Legend.

[u/Havins → u/Rangertexas9]

I mean, it was WVU-Cincy. Someone had to honor Bob Huggins.

[u/Jonjon428]

Ah, a classic Big12 offensive shootout!

[u/Havins]

What the fuck is defense?

[u/weirdbutinagoodway → u/Havins]

Our defense used to be pretty good.... back in the Nehlen era.

[u/rageking5 → u/weirdbutinagoodway]

2010s had some good defenses too, especially 2016. Carried the team to 10 wins

[u/MillionDollarBaby19]

Still need to fire Zac Alley

[u/ASS_MY_DUDES → u/MillionDollarBaby19]

Man this one is weird. We were very upset he left BV for y’all. Hope he gets it together

[u/DarthNobody14]

Big 12 shootout of the week.

[u/KingCaboot1e]

So conflicted. Its nice to get a win but now I'm afraid we're stuck with Alley for longer

[u/Inside-Drink-1311]

Based on how Satt’s tenure has gone, I’m going to go ahead and say Cincy is not making a bowl game this year. They’ll probably beat Colorado and that’s it.

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Inside-Drink-1311]

I’m not even sure they beat Colorado.

The only thing Cincy does well is run the ball. The only bright spot for Colorado is that they have a terrific defensive line; it’s currently #4 in the B12 and has been top-20 in the FBS all season in havoc rate. They were eating Texas Tech’s offensive line for breakfast a few weeks ago.

Cincy might not run for nearly as much as they’re accustomed to being able to do, and lord knows their defense will make Colorado’s offense look competent.

[u/madmaley → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

Yeah CU's dline has me worried for that game. Especially with a team that'll be spiraling down

[u/neverquestion]

Zac Alley is a football terrorist trying to waste Michael Hawkins.

[u/Other-Chemical-6393]

Average WVU game this season

[u/Tripletuxies]

Honestly whats the point of even firing Satterfield. We have everything invested into hoops. Satterfield is ass but who cares at this point

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Tripletuxies]

Which is especially concerning, since Cincy was tied for 8th in the Big XII preseason media poll in basketball.

Granted, poll could be wrong and maybe Cincy outperforms wildly.

[u/madmaley → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

Well it's also a brand new team so no one knows where to put them. But we have a tournament roster and a real coach now. They should be a tournament team this year. Especially with a roster that's probably 13 mil or more. I don't think it's concerning like you say. The team should be damn good. But the university needs to up nil funding to football. They're letting it die. The boosters are all throwing money at basketball

[u/4limbedemperor]

I hope uc loses the rest of the games this season, you can’t bring Satterfield back

[u/oldschool_shawn → u/4limbedemperor]

Is Gino ready yet?

[u/TyMsy227]

5-6 and end up getting blown out 83-7 in Provo last game of the season to finally finish satt off

[u/DavidGoetta]

We are off schedule for 8-4 with no course to get back on.

Best case scenario now is 5-7 with a hilarious win over TT and firing Satt at the end.

[u/Dry-Membership3867]

What in the Satterfield choke is this?

[u/DavidGoetta → u/Dry-Membership3867]

Best punt in history when he should've gone for it, give up a 40 yard pass out of their endzone.

[u/Spirited-Lock-9616]

Cincy giving up 24 in the fourth after leading at half is so painfully Big 12. At some point somebody has to make a stop, anyone, please.

[u/don_keydick_42069]

At some point in the 4th quarter WVU was avg 8.9 yards per play. Im sure it only went up by games end

[u/ndfan3]

Leave satt on a creepy county road somewhere in wv

[u/SaintsSooners89]

Mike Hawkins with 500+ yards and 5 TDs. Looney toons numbers. Special athlete, glad to see him going off like we knew he could.

[u/CoalCountryCoyote]

McAfee and the big wigs wanted Rich Rod back so badly. Have to do whatever it takes to keep Hawkins in Morgantown

[u/BeePow91]

Hawkins rocks

[u/cbunny21 → u/BeePow91]

I really wish he would’ve stayed at OU lol

[u/Evening-Neck-529]

MICHAEL HAWKINS JR HAS DONE MIRACLES ON ME

[u/Pangolin_cowboy_hats]

I love watching offenses play against paper defenses

[u/SIser187]

If you believe in the concept of defense do not look at this game.

[u/Particular-Way-3805]

Country Roads

[u/AnonThrowAway072023]

Fun old school B12 game like the early 2010s

[u/Bokki_64]

Tarmac Satterfield

[u/4limbedemperor]

Can’t wait for Satterfield to cry for more money when the moron can’t even coach

[u/braydenj713]

that is a rough one for Satterfield

[u/No-Blacksmith-2005]

fire Scott Satterfield

[u/Zloggt]

Cincy Sold…

[u/Mountie427]

I was hoping the defense would fire the defensive coordinator half time Varsity Blues style.

[u/Away-Concentrate-946]

Did momma and pappa Kelce die?

I hate that those two think they are celebs.

[u/Stags304]

1. Rich Rod is mostly 1 trick pony, but he has evolved. We won today with passing. Not something you could say from his first stint. He has gotten better as a coach.
2. Hawkins Jr is that guy. He is the most important player on the team.
3. The defense continues to be atrocious, and at this point I don't see a solution. I don't think it's the players either. I put it squarely on Zac Alley.

[u/rightbeerwrongtime]

High score in SEC game „they’re both so good!“. High scoring in big 12 „these defenses suck!“.

[u/Apart_Selection7722]

Bruh

[u/Impossible-Luck4802]

Classic big 12 shootout

[u/rockyonthetrack]

Goddamit Cincinnati, you had 1 job

[u/Still-Rabbit-9663]

If it is ANY consolation to 'eer fans, Texas Tech is kicking the s---t out of Arizona State. Maybe the 'eers aren't the worst team in the Big 12... MAYBE!