Twenty-four point underdogs at home, it took a walk-off 32-yard field for the University of Cincinnati (7-1, 4-0 AAC) to defeat the East Carolina University (3-6, 0-5 AAC) Pirates by a score of 46-43 on Saturday.
“It’s so tough to win college football games and you’re playing a team like that and you have the opportunity,” head coach Mike Houston said. “We just couldn’t make the plays at the right times. You’re going to look tomorrow at 20 different plays, if you make any one of them, you win the game. Credit to the kicker from Cincinnati, that’s a heck of a kick.