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Bowl Conscious

4-4 Bearcats thinking beyond regular season
Tuesday, October 24, 2006By Dave Rahme
Staff writer
Cincinnati football coach Mark Dantonio hands out goal cards to his players every season and discusses them liberally, asking the Bearcats to adjust them as events dictate.
Eight games into the season they have drawn a line through the national championship at the top of their cards and realistically the Big East championship underneath it. But goal No. 3, an invitation to a postseason bowl, is still very much in play as the team prepares to play Syracuse at noon Saturday (Time Warner 26).
"We talk about championships here," Dantonio said Monday morning. "Our goal is to win a championship. I think you have to set your sights on goals. We re-evaluate our goals every single week. This is a four-game schedule right now. We can't really look behind us at what's happened. All I can tell you is we've evened it up at 4-4. That's a positive thing right now, where we're at. And we need to take the next step."
The Bearcats are .500 despite a roster dominated by freshmen and sophomores and a killer early schedule that featured non-league games at No. 1 Ohio State and Virginia Tech and a mid-season conference game at No. 6 Louisville.
"We chose to embrace that schedule and to continually tell our players that we would have opportunities in those games to win," Dantonio said. "And our players built confidence from those games early on, because we were in that situation. We were beating Virginia Tech at Virginia Tech at the end of the third quarter, and at Ohio State we were hanging in there with them. So because of that I think we gained some confidence."
They gained the .500 mark Sunday night by defeating South Florida 23-6 on national television, their first league victory a week after a hard-fought 23-17 loss at Louisville the week before.
"You've got to give Cincinnati a great deal of credit," USF coach Jim Levitt said. "They really did a great job defensively. It was a 2-0 game at halftime, and we go into the third quarter and we drive all the way down and we have a chance to go up . . . it was first-and-goal and (we) threw an interception and kind of took the wind out of our sails. We stop them, get the ball back and now we drive it and we throw an interception and they return it all the way for a touchdown, so Cincinn- ati's defense is up 9-0 on us."
It has been a recurring theme for the Bearcats (4-4, 1-2), who have played tough defense all season under Dantonio, the third-year coach who was the defensive coordinator at Ohio State when it won the national championship in 2002. On Sunday, they held USF to a season-low 219 yards of offense.
"I got to watch that game last night," Syracuse coach Greg Robinson said. "They are a team that plays with a lot of passion. I just like the way they play. They're quick. They play from sideline to sideline."
Because the Bearcats played Sunday night, Dantonio professed to have little knowledge of the Orange other than to say he believed it to be much improved. He and his assistant coaches were about to dig in and study SU after he got off the phone. With No. 5 West Virginia and No. 16 Rutgers still ahead, though, he knows his team needs to knock off Syracuse if it wants to keep goal No. 3 on the table.

"As I said to our players earlier, when we won this last game the window was going to open for us a little bit in terms of bowl games, and if we lose a game it closes," Dantonio said. "We need to continue with that thought process. We have a four-game schedule in front of us, and Syracuse is the next one up."
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