Without tradition, it’s title-talk attrition — and Cincy deserves better
Brian Kelly says it was Kirk Herbstreit who asked the question, but it really doesn’t matter. When television sinks its vampire fangs into a subject, it sucks it dry. Welcome to this week’s victim: At some point, Cincinnati football became Rodney Dangerfield trying to get into Bushwood — a crass, loudmouthed outsider in a ballroom full of tuxedos.
The question for this vampire weekend: If Cincinnati goes undefeated, does it deserve to play for a national championship?
The logical answer: What are you smoking? Of course, Cincinnati deserves a shot. It needs help at the top, but that’s not the argument in the third week of October. The rules suggest it has a better shot than BYU, TCU and Boise State, the usual subjects of this conversation. It already has been to the Orange Bowl as champion of the Big East, which is guaranteed a spot in the BCS.
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10/22/9
