The real star of the 123rd Battle for the Victory Bell was the weather, as heavy rain really affected how the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Miami-Ohio RedHawks played football on Saturday night at Paul Brown Stadium. One team managed to deal with the poor conditions better than the other, with the Bearcats winning 21-0. It’s unlikely that each individual rain drop was wearing pads, but UC’s players all stepped up and won the program’s 13th-straight Victory Bell. Here are the players who stepped up the most.
This was not your prototypical first career start. After leading the Bearcats to their upset win over the UCLA Bruins in week one, Ridder earned himself the starting gig, but the weather did not cooperate.