Who could have seen the ending of Cincinati’s game with Temple coming? Even if the Bearcats and Owls played each other every week for eternity in some sort of Prometheus-style punishment scenario, it would be difficult to recreate the exact circumstances that led to UC’s first loss of the season.
Despite that fact, before last week’s game, we ran five simulation sets, and the five games we looked at from those sets did not tell us the exact finish, but it did give us some insight into what was to come. Each result called for a close game with little scoring and a lot of defensive success.