CINCINNATI BEARCATS
at
LOUISVILLE CARDINALS

Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium (56,000/FieldTurf)
Louisville, Ky.
Friday, October 26 • 8 p.m. • ESPN2

Television - WATCH LIVE
ESPN — Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore and Jemele Hill

Cincinnati Radio - WLW-AM 700 (flagship)

Louisville Radio - WHAS-AM 840 (flagship)

BIG EAST/IMG Sports National Radio - John Rooke and Peter Brock 
Sirius 91; XM 91

THE GAME • THE KEG OF NAILS - BIGEAST.ORG ORIGINAL FEATURE ON THIS RIVALRY
Friday’s game will be the 53rd meeting between Cincinnati and Louisville in a rivalry that dates to the 1922 season … The schools compete for the Keg of Nails, a replica of a keg that was used to ship nails, though how that associates with Cincinnati and Louisville is rather vague … Cincinnati holds a 30-21-1 series lead and has won the last four meetings … Louisville had won five straight before the Bearcats’ current streak.

rv/rv CINCINNATI (5-1, 1-0 BIG EAST) - Cincinnati Preview
Head Coach
Butch Jones (Ferris State ’90)
19-12, third season at Cincinnati
45-24, sixth season as collegiate head coach

NOTES
Cincinnati saw an eight-game winning streak snapped with last Saturday’s 29-23 setback at Toledo … The loss also ended an eight-game winning streak against nonconference opponents … The Bearcats have averaged 34.7 points per game … RB George Winn ranks second in the BIG EAST in rushing at 101.2 yards per game … Winn has rushed for 607 yards and four touchdowns and is averaging 6.3 yards per carry — the best mark of any BIG EAST starter … QB Munchie Legaux is fifth in the conference in passing (239.2 ypg) and has completed 96 of 180 passes for 1,435 yards and 12 touchdowns with five interceptions … RB Ralph David Abernathy IV is averaging 135.3 all-purpose yards per game, good for second in the conference … Cincinnati has scored a defensive touchdown in each of its last two games … LB Greg Blair is averaging 9.0 tackles per game, ranking third in the conference, while LB Maalik Bomar is seventh at 7.7 tackles per game … DE Walter Stewart, who had made 40 consecutive starts before last week’s game at Toledo, is out indefinitely with an upper body injury.

16/14 LOUISVILLE (7-0, 2-0 BIG EAST) - Louisville Preview
Head Coach
Charlie Strong (Central Arkansas ’82)
13-6, second season at Louisville
13-7, second full season as collegiate head coach

NOTES
Louisville, which is ranked No. 16 in the BCS standings for the second straight week, plays the second of three straight home games … Louisville is one of 11 teams nationally without a loss in 2012 … The Cardinals are 2-0 in BIG EAST play for the second time (2006) … Louisville is 7-0 for the third time in program history (1925, 2006) … QB Teddy Bridgewater was named one of 16 semifinalists for the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback … In four home games this season, Bridgewater has completed 82.3 percent of his passes (93 of 113) for 1,111 yards and seven touchdowns with no interceptions … Overall, Bridgewater has thrown for 1,694 yards and 11 TDs with three INTs and has a 73.4-percent completion rate … RB Senorise Perry is ranked third in the BIG EAST in rushing (84.0 ypg) and has a league-high 10 touchdown runs, while RB Jeremy Wright is eighth in rushing yards (68.1 ypg) and has seven rushing touchdowns … Perry is the BIG EAST scoring leader at 8.6 points per game … S Calvin Pryor has a team-high 54 tackles with an interception and leads the nation with four forced fumbles.