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Cincinnati Football Homecoming vs. ECU to Kick Off At 7:00

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Time and TV for UC’s 2016 homecoming game on 10/22 have been announced. COTP supports #BlackoutHomecoming.

Cincinnati football will look to avoid it’s fourth straight loss in American Conference play on Saturday, October 22, when the Bearcats host the Pirates from East Carolina University. It will be homecoming weekend at UC, and a full list of homecoming festivities can be found here. Former UC hoops great Kenyon Martin will be the grand marshall of the homecoming festivities, further reinforcing the overarching sentiment that it needs to be basketball season, like, right now.

The football game will kick off at 7:00 pm ET, and be televised on CBS Sports Network. This has been the greatest year maybe ever on record for tailgating. Four night games and a 3:30, with the BYU game TBA. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been the greatest year on the field for our beloved Red and Black.

To say the Bearcats have been scuffling of late would actually be generous. UC hasn’t been 0-3 in conference play since 1999. Dropping a road tilt last Saturday against a non-impressive UConn team has put UC in the cellar of the AAC East. If the Bearcats are to even make a bowl game, the turnaround has to start ASAP after this week’s bye.

The homecoming game is supposed to be a Ring of Red game. Back in the day, the Ring of Red used to actually mean something. It was reserved for the biggest of big games. Must-win, nationally televised basketball matchups with the titans back in the old Big East days. UC-Pitt in 2008 was the first time it came out in football. It was usually only announced a week or two in advance that the game would be a Ring of Red. But these days, UC predetermines these things months in advance to sucker people into buying overpriced Under Armour gear in every color. I’ve got to admit that I got suckered into buying one of those bright white UA sideline pullovers two weeks ago. I wish I’d kept the receipt.

So instead of wearing red next Saturday, we at COTP are fully supporting the #BlackoutHomecoming movement. This fanbase and this once rising program deserve better than an 0-3 start in league play, and the #BlackoutHomecoming movement is meant to show the university, the athletic department, and the coaching staff that is running the program into the ground that we won’t passively sit back and do what we’re told/wear what we’re told while our football program is ruined.

Please join us in wearing BLACK at Nippert Stadium on October 22, and come out to support the players wearing helmets, not the coaches wearing headsets and sleek, overpriced UA pullovers.