University of Cincinnati Bearcats football head coach Luke Fickell is one of 20 coaches on the 2018 Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Award watch list.
The second-year head coach has helped the Bearcats to a 6-0 start (2-0 in the American Athletic Conference) this season - their best since 2009 - and rankings of No. 20 in the latest AP Top 25 and No. 21 in the Amway Coaches Poll.
Fickell said earlier this week - per The Enquirer's Tom Groeschen - that he's not surprised that the Bearcats are an underdog at Temple.