
Cincinnati Bearcats
Welcome to the Cincinnati Bearcats file in the Blindside Bulletin History Room: the story of the program, its best and worst seasons, and the head coaches who shaped it, alongside its live 4-2 record this season. Below you'll find Cincinnati Bearcats football history, coaching history and links to every season, year by year.
The program
The Cincinnati Bearcats football team represents the University of Cincinnati in college football. They compete at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level as members of the Big 12 Conference. They have played their home games at Nippert Stadium since 1901. The Bearcats have an all-time record of over .500, having reached their 600th program victory in 2017.
Read the full history ↗Best & worst seasons
This is a list of seasons completed by the Cincinnati Bearcats football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1885, the Bearcats have participated in more than 1,200 officially sanctioned games, including 16 bowl games.
See every season, year by year ↗The coaches
The Cincinnati Bearcats football team represents the University of Cincinnati in the Big 12 Conference, competing as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The program has had 39 head coaches and three interim coaches during its existence, as well as one stint with no coach and two periods with the program on hiatus. The Bearcats have been participating in college football since the 1885 season and were one of the first schools currently in the FBS to sponsor a football program. Scott Satterfield is the current head coach, having replaced Luke Fickell, after Fickell took the head coaching job at Wisconsin post the 2022 season.
See every head coach ↗Keep reading
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