Cincinnati Bearcats NCAA Football News

This is a good week to be an upstart. Not much has changed since the beginning of the season in terms of the national title hunt - Alabama , Florida and Texas haven't budged from the top of the polls since the beginning of the season.

As the Crimson Tide overtook LSU this weekend, it became very clear that the national championship game will go through Atlanta.

Defense be damned. Two teams named UC with two quarterbacks named Zach, one of which got a big lift from a running back named Jordan, wanted to have a shootout.

The field of remaining unbeaten teams was trimmed on Saturday when Iowa fell to Northwestern. Nonetheless, since the Bowl Championship Series was created in 1998, there have never been as many undefeated teams (six) entering the 11th week of the season as there are this year. For two of those squads -- No. 4 Texas Christian and No. 5 Cincinnati -- their status among the elite teams in the nation will be tested this weekend.

TCU already has defeated two Atlantic Coast Conference teams (Virginia and No. 24 Clemson), as well as then-No. 16 Brigham Young, but the Horned Frogs' toughest matchup of the season will take place Saturday when they host No. 16 Utah.

There is so much money flying around college football that sometimes we lose sight of what we're watching.

Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson runs against the Cincinnati Bengals in the second quarter of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept.

Fox NFL Sunday going to Afghanistan had all the trappings of being a self-promoting gimmick, especially when the show started off by showing how the crew traveled to the Middle East.

The Big East Conference has named Cincinnati quarterback Zach Collaros and Cincinnati kicker Jacob Rogers the winners of its weekly football honors.

While the top of the Bowl Championship Standings looked very familiar Sunday, there was plenty of shuffling behind the No.

What looked entirely possible in September appears imminently probable in November.

One bad afternoon, one ugly blemish in the Big East. Cincinnati went to Connecticut last season with a perfect league mark and high expectations because quarterback Tony Pike had returned from a broken left forearm.

Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the tenth week of college football action, and AT&T* is relying on fans to determine who rules the gridiron.

Will he be too hard or too soft... Let's see.. Offense: 462 yards on a team that gives up, no turnovers and 35-second half points.

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett CINCINNATI -- I spent a while watching Tony Pike in warmups.

UConn has no shot of beating No. 4 Cincinnati tonight. None. The Bearcats are on a mission toward something great.

What's on the line for Cincinnati Saturday at home against Connecticut? Everything.

OCTOBER 24: Zach Collaros #12 of the Cincinnati Bearcats runs with the ball during the Big East Conference game against the Louisville Cardinals at Nippert Stadium on October 24, 2009 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

UConn at Cincinnati Site: Nippert Stadium , Cincinnati, Ohio. Time: 8 p.m. TV: Ch.

Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly has accomplished so much in so little time. The Bearcats have had back-to-back 10-win seasons since Kelly arrived in 2006.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 3--Walter Stewart, Cincinnati It wasn't the best environment for a 19-year-old college football player to make his first start.