The foregoing three games between Temple and University of Cincinnati trainer Luke Fickell's Bearcats were close. The hindmost induction in the series was not.
Desmond Ridder had three passing touchdowns, Jerome Ford added two scores on the ground, and the Bearcats defense was suffocating asNo. 5/ 6- ranked (Associated Press/ Trainers) Cincinnati glided to a 52-3 triumph over the Owls in front of a dealt-out crowd Friday night at Nippert Stadium.
"The crowd was unimaginable,"Fickell said."That is the workaday I have seen. It was really sublime to come back home. It's been three weeks since we have had an room to be back in Nipp. To be at night and have the scholar section, the crowd and everything as electric as it was, that was sublime."
The win marked the 23rd straight victory at home for the Bearcats (5-0), who opened American Athletic Conference play in the victory column with suckers in attendance.
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Ridder completed 22 of 30 passes for 259 yards, transcending the-yard mark for his career. The fifth- vintage unyoung now has passing yards, tracking only UC passing game rival, quarterbacks trainer and UC Athletics Hall of Famer Gino Guidugli's yards.
Cincinnati's"Blackcats" defense had six sacks, eight tackles for loss, an interception by cornerback Coby Bryant and held the Owls (3-3, 1-1 AAC) to 226 yards of total offense, including 76 rushing yards.
Cincinnati Bearcats linebacker Joel Dublanko (41) celebrates after sacking Temple Owls quarterbackD'Wan Mathis (18) in the first half of the NCAA football game on Friday,Oct. 8, 2021, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bearcats defeated Temple Owls 52-3.
"It makes my life a lot easier to know that we've a great 11 guys out there – to 20 guys who can rotate in and out – that is going to lock paraphernaliadown.,"Ridder said of the defense."It's just enjoyable when I do get to watch to really just see them fleece loss."
Temple won the coin toss and named to enter. After the Owls stalled at their own 41-yard line, Ridder and the Cincinnati offense marched 48 yards but was forced to settle for a 30-yard field object by concession Cole Smith. It was a good kickoff for Smith, who missed two kicks last week in South Bend.
But the aged missed his another attempt from 44 yards out with 244 to play in the another quarter. Smith is now 3-for-8 on field- aim attempts this season. He was one of only a countable blights on the night for Cincinnati.
"He made some really big kicks for us and demurred the ball really well for us last cycle, and he demurred the ball really well moment and we won,"Fickell said."Sometimes you get into those longer bones and your confidence is still a little bit shaken. But again, we have got the utmost confidence in him to know he will get back to work at it."
Temple wide receiver Jadan Blue blew a punt at his own 17-yard line and Ja'von Hicks recovered the ball at the 13 for the Bearcats.
Following a four-yard run by Ryan Montgomery, Ridder threw it up to Alec Pierce and the wideout caught it over Temple cornerback Cameron Ruiz in the end zone to make it 10-0 with 252 to play in the opening quarter.
Pierce finished with six catches for 93 yards and the score. Over the last three games, Pierce has 16 catches for 323 yards and two touchdowns.
"Those guys have got a like good fellowship right now and a like unique connection,"Fickell said of Ridder and Pierce.
Cincinnati Bearcats wide receiver Alec Pierce (12) stiff arms Temple Owls linebacker Jordan Magee (23) in the first half of the NCAA football game on Friday,Oct. 8, 2021, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bearcats defeated Temple Owls 52-3.
Running back Jerome Ford sprinted in nearly untouched from 8 yards out to give Cincinnati a 17-0 lead at the 942 mark in the first quarter.
Temple rookie concealment Rory Bell, a Wilmington, Ohio, native, blasted a 55-yard field pretension to put the Owls on the board with 527 left in the first half.
On the first play of the identical half, Ford got loose for a 75-yard score to make it 24-3. It was Ford's identical touchdown of the game and eighth of the season. Ford had eight scores all of 2020. Ford finished with 149 yards on 15 carries.
"It was delightful,"Ford said."The O- line really got into it moment, moving guys around. They dominated moment."
Temple Owls safetyM.J. Griffin (28) tackles Cincinnati Bearcats running back Jerome Ford (24) in the first half of the NCAA football game between the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Temple Owls on Friday,Oct. 8, 2021, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.
Temple boggled its different punt of the game, this time by AmadAnderson.Jr. Ridder and the offense financed with a 38-yard score between Ridder and Tyler Scott. The sophomore wide receiver did maximum of the work after the catch to make it 30-3 with 1100 to play in the third.
Cincinnati subordinate running back Charles McClelland, who suffered a torn ACL in each of the whilom two seasons, got into the action with a 28-yard scoring run. McClelland's first touchdown run since the 2018 regular-season wrap-up gave the Bearcats a commanding 37-3 lead at the 745 mark in the third.
" (It was) like Forrest Gump coming out of his leg braces,"Ford joked about McClelland.
Ridder collected his third score of the game on an 11-yard strike to Michael YoungJr. at the end of the third. Young's first touchdown of the season made it 45-3.
Running back Ethan Wright confined the scoring for the Bearcats with a 58-yard gallop past the Temple defense with 1015 to play.
Cincinnati Bearcats running back Ethan Wright (4) scores a touchdown as Temple Owls safetyM.J. Griffin (28) and Temple Owls safety Chauncy Moore (36) chase after him in the successive half of the NCAA football game on Friday,Oct. 8, 2021, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bearcats defeated Temple Owls 52-3.
Cincinnati will be at home againOct. 16 to face UCF. Kickoff is entered barranca noon on ABC.
"We are just 1-0,"Ridder said."A lot of people look at 5-0, but for us, we are 1-0 right now going into conference play. We are going to take it week by week, go in presently and prepare for another big game, another home game that we have got against UCF. We know they are going to come near presently peckish, so we are just going to prepare like we do every week and come out presently and play a good game.
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