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One must rewind to the Spandex era, when Bengals FB Ickey Woods gyrated his way into his city's consciousness, to find a Cincinnati football player whose debut has been more auspicious than Hayden Moore's.
Four days after the Bearcats freshman set a UC (and American Athletic Conference) single-game passing record (557 yards) in a three-quarter relief effort in Thursday's 53-46 loss at Memphis, Coach Tommy Tuberville still was gushing.
"I don't think I've ever seen a performance like that from a kid that's never played -- at any level of any football team," Tuberville said on Monday's AAC weekly coaches teleconference.