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Forget must-win. Tomorrow night’s ABC slot is a must-impress for Cincinnati. (Football Outsiders)
Cincinnati opened the season with 10 new starters on defense. They’re veterans now. (Rivals.com)
In hoops news, Lance Stephenson has finally been cleared. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
Eight categories, Cincinnati has the edge in seven. An argument that the loss of special teams player Robbie Frey will hurt more than the loss of QB Cody Endres. Rutgers, incidentally, knocked out both last week. (Connecticut Post)
A few highlights from Randy Edsall’s teleconference. (Hartford Courant)
Steve Kragthorpe looks at Pat White and Jarrett Brown and thinks Brown’s better. He doesn’t fumble. (Louisville Courier-Journal)
The Big East’s second-best run game takes on the league’s best run defense. Who says something has to give? Heinz Field may be nice, but playing on campus would be nicer. The Big East’s nos. 1, 2 and 3 teams take on three teams with a combined 1-9 league mark. Just don’t call them trap games. The transcript of a live chat with WVU beat writer Colin Dunlap. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Dion Lewis still doesn’t need a bigger helmet. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Joe Lefeged doesn’t know that it’s a natural instinct to be around the big play. But he generally always is anyway. (Daily Targum)
BC’s Josh Haden could be interested in Rutgers. (Boston Herald via Bleed Scarlet)
Another voice saying Anthony Davis could be the first tackle taken in the spring. (National Football Post)
Matt Grothe was tougher to bring down, BJ Daniels may be tougher to catch. (Star-Ledger)
Miami has returned 3,000 tickets to South Florida for its match-up at Raymond James. (St. Petersburg Times)
Doug Marrone definitely saw this coming. Thank goodness he’s had Arthur Jones around for it, though. And there are indeed some marks of improvement. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
Keith Tandy got beat twice, badly, on national TV. Then the WVU cornerback came out to talk to the media. (Charleston Gazette)
Aditi Kinkhabwala has written a regular column for SI.com and been published in Sports Illustrated.