September 25, 2025 • 15 mins
Tony talks with UC Center Gavin Gerhardt on ESPN 1530!
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Welcome back since he three to sixty hour number three
ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Thanks to our friends
at Penn Station. We've talked Reds, We've talked Bengals. It's
time to talk some Bearcats. Back in action after a
bye week last week. They are on the road in Lawrence,
Kansas on Saturday. Let's talk to a man for the
Bearcats who is a vital part of what this team
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is doing and looking to do now going into Big twelve.
Play the center for the Cincinnati Bearcats. Gavin Garhart, joining
us right now. Gavin, what's up?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How are we doing?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mankevin? How how did the bye week go? It's an
interesting bye week because you play it team in Northwestern
state and you guys play very well, you put the
game away, you get some time in the second half
to kind of sit back and watch and let young
guys get some work. Then you go into a bye week.
How beneficial could that rest be going in down to
the heart of the Big Twelve play.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I think it'd be very beneficial. I think we had,
you know, kind of an extended by week because you're
at the point in time when I came out of
the game is a little bit before midway through the
second quarter or so, didn't really get too many plays
in that game. And then have a whole week arrest,
you know of you know, limited plays and practice kind
of more young guys trying to see what they can do.
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I think it'll be very beneficial for us.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Going into now Big twelve play. You kind of reset
and everything is still ahead of you. Guys from a
team goal standpoint, go win a Big twelve championship. I've
watched a lot of Big Twelve. I know you're following along.
It seems like this league is wide open. What is
the confidence level like inside the locker room right now,
knowing that you got everything ahead of you.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's it's tremendous right now. I mean, we we got
we got to take a one week at a time,
and that's been the mindset for for a long time anyway.
But you know, the conference always changes every year to
where the projected you know, person to the favorite to
win the conference. It's it's usually always somebody different, which
is which is great about this conference. You know, it
could be anybody any given Saturday to go out there
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and win. So it gives us great confidence. You know
that we just played to our standard and then we
go out there and execute at a high level. We
can we can win a lot of football games.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You guys go on the road to kick off Big
twelve play, you've won on the road to kick off
the season, and that game against Nebraska being there, it
might be the loudest environment I've ever been in for
an away team. If not, it's one of the loudest.
I know, you guys came up just a little bit short.
But how much can you take from a road environment
like that, knowing you're probably not going to go into
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another environment that's that crazy and that loud. How much
can you lean on on the Nebraska game?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Lean on it a lot? I think you know, we
went silent count for a majority of the game and
then finally got into the rhythm a little bit towards
the end and kind of settled into that system that
which we had to do. So I think, you know,
that was a great experience for us to be able
to implement that and to have to use that. And
I think if we have to use that at any
point down the road, you know, it'll work out just
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fine for us. So I think that game will help
us in more than one way this coming season.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Throughout the bye week, your group up front has received
a lot of notoriety the only group to not give
up a sack this year. When you talk about that,
I think people just read the stat and think, man,
the offensive line obviously playing at a very high level,
how much else goes into that? How much does what
source be is able to do go into that? How
much does the system go into that of spreading the
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ball around and getting it out your guys running attack?
How much is it about all eleven that go into
the success that you guys have had with that group
of five upfront.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I mean it takes every single one of us. I think,
you know, in a lot of ways when we protect
the running back is is there for us in a
lot of ways to pick up an extra blitzer that
you know can save Swordsby from getting you know, hit
or a sack or whatnot. And then the whiteouts we have,
you know, being able to get open and allow swords
Me to get rid of the ball quickly. He does
that anyway, if there's nobody open, he'll get rid of
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the ball. He don't want to get hit. So you know,
he he's helped us out in a lot of ways.
He is a quick release in our whiteouts. Like I said,
they just get open for him and he can honestly
get rid of the before you I mean, you know,
his first second reading. But then there's been points in
time where he's been able to get to his third
read and we protected well enough and you know, hoping
to continue to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Take me behind the scenes here from an offensive line
point of view, because obviously you're protecting in pass Pro,
but you guys are also a very aggressive run blocking team.
And last year it was Corey Kiner and Evan Pryor
and this year it's Evan Pryor and Tyee Walker and
Soorsby is more than a capable runner. What is it
about the guys behind you that allow you guys to
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open up kind of the balance of the offense in
the run and pass game. With the talent you guys
have at running back.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, I think it gives us a great a great
deal of confidence up front that whoever is going to
have the ball, whatever situation that's in, if we do
our job up there, and we've continued to grow throughout
the season, especially with a whole lot of new guys
up there with myself, just make sure we're you know,
making the right calls and the right ideas. I'm putting
everybody in the right position to hopefully help us execute
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at a high level. And if we do that, if
I continue to do that, I think anybody in that
backfield with the ball will you know, will do great
things for us.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We've we've had the conversation about in talking about the
Bengals and their offensive line and their inability to get
the running game going. Right now from an offensive line group,
with you guys, what is the mindset in the running game?
How physical? How how are you firing off the ball?
What what type of mindset has been drilled into you
guys up front? And it has led to success in
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the ground as well.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think it starts with Coach Carlwell. I mean he
instills and implements a great game plan each and every week.
You know, there's there's different runs that are are good
for you know, against a certain team, but then there's
you know, runs that we run a lot of time
that we we just can't run versus different schemes. He
does great job impermentting that and just you know, if
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he harps on it enough that you know, we got
to have the best double teams in the country. If
we're gonna have two guys to try and move one,
we have to move him and we have to display
them off the line. And we've done that so far
and we're hoping to continue to do that. But it
starts with coach Carlwell for sure, and then just trickles
down the tree each and every player.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I would imagine not as much during the regular season,
but in the offseason and camp and and different things
like that, you've had a chance to go up against
your guys number one defense as well, and it is
a different defense with coach Vite with the three down lineman.
How much has that helped you guys as a group
and identifying what you need to identify and how much
growth have you seen on that side of the ball
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as well that has led to some early season success.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, I think they they do a great job giving
us different looks throughout practice. You know, we we we
go against them all off season, all plps, all fall
camp and whatnot, and all spring ball, and you know,
they instead of just throwing out the same base defense
out there against us, and that's getting a hang of
blocking in. You know, they throw different looks at us.
You know that that that challenge us in a lot
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of ways, and they're always changing schemes up. You know,
we don't try to to game plan each other obviously
because we're not playing against each other on Saturdays, but
if we can, if we can help each other out
in any other way, we try to do that. And
the defense has done a tremendous job, you know, given
me and the guys up front different looks and and
trying to you know, move at the last second to
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make us you know, a little hard for us to
make calls at some points in time. But they've done
a tremendous job and I'm really looking forward to what
they'll you know, continue to do this year.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
From a personal growth for you over the years, being
able to spend time, as you mentioned in the off
season in camps, going up against a guy like Dante Corleone,
the term iron sharpens iron is thrown around a lot.
How much have you been able to refine your game
going up against a guy of the caliber of Dante
corleon I.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Think it's It's helped me tremendously. I think I wouldn't
be the player I m today if I if I
didn't have that guy to block every day. He challenges me,
and I try to challenge him to you know, kind
of confuse him too at some points, because you know
he is he is a freakously strong and a great player.
And then I try to use some some mind tactics
as well as you know, try and get him out
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of his comfort zone to also challenge him to where
you know, if there's anything that's thrown out him on
game days from the opposing team, you know he'll do
just fine.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Lastly, before we let you go, Gavin, the Kansas game
on on Saturday. It's a little bit unique. It's an
eleven am local start time, so a little bit early
to get up and going. What have been some of
the talking points leading into this game? On Saturday. That
that you guys need to make sure you take care
of to get a W in Kansas and bring it back.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I think just you know, overall communication. I think if
we communicate, well, we've been in you know, implementing a
lot of new things that will help us in a
lot of ways, but communicating, you know, well across the board.
That means offense, defense, special teams. And also you know,
we're not going to have I'm all very young guys
with us to share us on, so you know, when
the defense is out there, we got to make sure
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the offense is is cheering them on and pushing them through.
But you know, take care of one another, play for
one another, and I think we'll do just fine.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is Gavin Gerhart, the center for the Cincinnati Bearcats,
getting ready to head to Kansas to take on the
Jayhawks to open up Big twelve play. Gavin, best of
luck on Saturday. And we appreciate the time today, man,
thank you, thank you, Tony. There he is. That is
Gavin Gerhart. Awesome, awesome stuff, Very appreciative obviously of his time.
As we move forward and look to talking more about
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the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Kansas Jayhawks.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Tone, do you know where Gavin Gerhart went to high school?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
He went to Xenia, WO, so thank you for not
asking him. Wow that Xenia just put on Sydney last weekend.
He is looking it up while you were talking. He
was also a part of a twenty to notzhering beat
down of Sydney his senior year at Zena ed Xenia.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He's awesome, man, He's such a good player, so smart,
grown man too. You can hear his voice, grown man
and anchoring an offensive line again that has yet to
give up a sack at the college football level. It's
interesting as well. Often and Moe talked about this a
little bit last week, and I'll ask him today as well.
(10:36):
This feels like the swing game for UC, like there
are a lot of unknowns right now. If you look
across the Big Twelve, only ten Big Twelve teams have
played conference games up to this point. Kansas State, West Virginia, Colorado, Baylor,
Utah have all lost. Kansas, Arizona State, Houston, Texas Tech,
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and Iowa State have all won byu TCU, UCF U
S Oklahoma State, Arizona yet to play a Big twelve match.
I don't know what to make right now. Kansas State
was a preseason top twenty five team in the Big Twelve.
They have been awful. They're one and three to start
the year, including ohe one in league play. West Virginia
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lost not only in league play to Houston, but also
went on the road and lost at OU Colorado does
not look the part. Baylor couldn't tell you much. I
wasn't overly impressed with Utah, who was ranked when they
lost to Texas Tech, and then at the top. I've
watched Iowa State twice, good, not great. I think Texas
Tech is clearly the team right now to beat in
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the Big twelve. But if your uc you don't play
Texas Tech in the regular season, the teams you play
two they are three top twenty five teams. Next week
Iowa State comes into town at Knippert BYU at the
end of the year, twenty fifth ranked right now comes
to Knippert And then your last game November twenty ninth
is on the road at TCUID that Austin, Arizona, Utah, Baylor,
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Oklahoma State, UCF. There are a lot of games that
I feel like if you look right now are kind
of toss ups and I don't know what to make
about UC yet the Nebraska game. What do you make
in Nebraska? Is Nebraska a good football team? After what
you saw against Michigan they had Nebraska on the ropes,
A bad decision by Brendan swersby who threw for sixty
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nine yards in the game, or else they can go
down and win that game. They beat Bowling Green, it
wasn't in convincing fashion. I don't know what you can
take from Northwestern State and then a bye, much like
most at Austin, I think this is the game that
kind of hinges everything. If you win this, you get
momentum against Iowa State, you start talking about making noise
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in the Big Twelve. If not, and you don't put
a good performance together, then you think about, okay, are
they gonna start zering two in the conference again? I
think there's just a lot that's going to go into this,
a lot to watch out for. They're gonna go to
Oklahoma State, who just fired Mike Gundy, UCFS here, Baylor's here.
There's just I think there are winnable games on this schedule.
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I think the I think the game that this Teeter's
on is is Saturday against Kansas and where they go
from there. I think we'll be fascinating. Let's take that
topic and let's parlay it out into the next conversation
we're going to have with our guy, Keegan nickoson Jiggs
Bearcat Journal dot com. We haven't talked to Kegan in
a while. Let's catch up with him when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome back since he three to sixty hour number three
ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Thanks to our friends
at Penn Station. We've talked Reds, We've talked Bengals. It's
time to talk some Bearcats. Back in action after a
bye week last week. They are on the road in Lawrence,
Kansas on Saturday. Let's talk to a man for the
Bearcats who is a vital part of what this team
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is doing and looking to do now going into Big twelve.
Play the center for the Cincinnati Bearcats. Gavin Garhart, joining
us right now. Gavin, what's up?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How are we doing?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mankevin? How how did the bye week go? It's an
interesting bye week because you play it team in Northwestern
state and you guys play very well, you put the
game away, you get some time in the second half
to kind of sit back and watch and let young
guys get some work. Then you go into a bye week.
How beneficial could that rest be going in down to
the heart of the Big Twelve play.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I think it'd be very beneficial. I think we had,
you know, kind of an extended by week because you're
at the point in time when I came out of
the game is a little bit before midway through the
second quarter or so, didn't really get too many plays
in that game. And then have a whole week arrest,
you know of you know, limited plays and practice kind
of more young guys trying to see what they can do.
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I think it'll be very beneficial for us.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Going into now Big twelve play. You kind of reset
and everything is still ahead of you. Guys from a
team goal standpoint, go win a Big twelve championship. I've
watched a lot of Big Twelve. I know you're following along.
It seems like this league is wide open. What is
the confidence level like inside the locker room right now,
knowing that you got everything ahead of you.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's it's tremendous right now. I mean, we we got
we got to take a one week at a time,
and that's been the mindset for for a long time anyway.
But you know, the conference always changes every year to
where the projected you know, person to the favorite to
win the conference. It's it's usually always somebody different, which
is which is great about this conference. You know, it
could be anybody any given Saturday to go out there
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and win. So it gives us great confidence. You know
that we just played to our standard and then we
go out there and execute at a high level. We
can we can win a lot of football games.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You guys go on the road to kick off Big
twelve play, you've won on the road to kick off
the season, and that game against Nebraska being there, it
might be the loudest environment I've ever been in for
an away team. If not, it's one of the loudest.
I know, you guys came up just a little bit short.
But how much can you take from a road environment
like that, knowing you're probably not going to go into
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another environment that's that crazy and that loud. How much
can you lean on on the Nebraska game?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Lean on it a lot? I think you know, we
went silent count for a majority of the game and
then finally got into the rhythm a little bit towards
the end and kind of settled into that system that
which we had to do. So I think, you know,
that was a great experience for us to be able
to implement that and to have to use that. And
I think if we have to use that at any
point down the road, you know, it'll work out just
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fine for us. So I think that game will help
us in more than one way this coming season.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Throughout the bye week, your group up front has received
a lot of notoriety the only group to not give
up a sack this year. When you talk about that,
I think people just read the stat and think, man,
the offensive line obviously playing at a very high level,
how much else goes into that? How much does what
source be is able to do go into that? How
much does the system go into that of spreading the
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ball around and getting it out your guys running attack?
How much is it about all eleven that go into
the success that you guys have had with that group
of five upfront.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I mean it takes every single one of us. I think,
you know, in a lot of ways when we protect
the running back is is there for us in a
lot of ways to pick up an extra blitzer that
you know can save Swordsby from getting you know, hit
or a sack or whatnot. And then the whiteouts we have,
you know, being able to get open and allow swords
Me to get rid of the ball quickly. He does
that anyway, if there's nobody open, he'll get rid of
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the ball. He don't want to get hit. So you know,
he he's helped us out in a lot of ways.
He is a quick release in our whiteouts. Like I said,
they just get open for him and he can honestly
get rid of the before you I mean, you know,
his first second reading. But then there's been points in
time where he's been able to get to his third
read and we protected well enough and you know, hoping
to continue to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Take me behind the scenes here from an offensive line
point of view, because obviously you're protecting in pass Pro,
but you guys are also a very aggressive run blocking team.
And last year it was Corey Kiner and Evan Pryor
and this year it's Evan Pryor and Tyee Walker and
Soorsby is more than a capable runner. What is it
about the guys behind you that allow you guys to
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open up kind of the balance of the offense in
the run and pass game. With the talent you guys
have at running back.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, I think it gives us a great a great
deal of confidence up front that whoever is going to
have the ball, whatever situation that's in, if we do
our job up there, and we've continued to grow throughout
the season, especially with a whole lot of new guys
up there with myself, just make sure we're you know,
making the right calls and the right ideas. I'm putting
everybody in the right position to hopefully help us execute
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at a high level. And if we do that, if
I continue to do that, I think anybody in that
backfield with the ball will you know, will do great
things for us.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We've we've had the conversation about in talking about the
Bengals and their offensive line and their inability to get
the running game going. Right now from an offensive line group,
with you guys, what is the mindset in the running game?
How physical? How how are you firing off the ball?
What what type of mindset has been drilled into you
guys up front? And it has led to success in
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the ground as well.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think it starts with Coach Carlwell. I mean he
instills and implements a great game plan each and every week.
You know, there's there's different runs that are are good
for you know, against a certain team, but then there's
you know, runs that we run a lot of time
that we we just can't run versus different schemes. He
does great job impermentting that and just you know, if
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he harps on it enough that you know, we got
to have the best double teams in the country. If
we're gonna have two guys to try and move one,
we have to move him and we have to display
them off the line. And we've done that so far
and we're hoping to continue to do that. But it
starts with coach Carlwell for sure, and then just trickles
down the tree each and every player.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I would imagine not as much during the regular season,
but in the offseason and camp and and different things
like that, you've had a chance to go up against
your guys number one defense as well, and it is
a different defense with coach Vite with the three down lineman.
How much has that helped you guys as a group
and identifying what you need to identify and how much
growth have you seen on that side of the ball
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as well that has led to some early season success.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, I think they they do a great job giving
us different looks throughout practice. You know, we we we
go against them all off season, all plps, all fall
camp and whatnot, and all spring ball, and you know,
they instead of just throwing out the same base defense
out there against us, and that's getting a hang of
blocking in. You know, they throw different looks at us.
You know that that that challenge us in a lot
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of ways, and they're always changing schemes up. You know,
we don't try to to game plan each other obviously
because we're not playing against each other on Saturdays, but
if we can, if we can help each other out
in any other way, we try to do that. And
the defense has done a tremendous job, you know, given
me and the guys up front different looks and and
trying to you know, move at the last second to
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make us you know, a little hard for us to
make calls at some points in time. But they've done
a tremendous job and I'm really looking forward to what
they'll you know, continue to do this year.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
From a personal growth for you over the years, being
able to spend time, as you mentioned in the off
season in camps, going up against a guy like Dante Corleone,
the term iron sharpens iron is thrown around a lot.
How much have you been able to refine your game
going up against a guy of the caliber of Dante
corleon I.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Think it's It's helped me tremendously. I think I wouldn't
be the player I m today if I if I
didn't have that guy to block every day. He challenges me,
and I try to challenge him to you know, kind
of confuse him too at some points, because you know
he is he is a freakously strong and a great player.
And then I try to use some some mind tactics
as well as you know, try and get him out
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of his comfort zone to also challenge him to where
you know, if there's anything that's thrown out him on
game days from the opposing team, you know he'll do
just fine.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Lastly, before we let you go, Gavin, the Kansas game
on on Saturday. It's a little bit unique. It's an
eleven am local start time, so a little bit early
to get up and going. What have been some of
the talking points leading into this game? On Saturday. That
that you guys need to make sure you take care
of to get a W in Kansas and bring it back.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I think just you know, overall communication. I think if
we communicate, well, we've been in you know, implementing a
lot of new things that will help us in a
lot of ways, but communicating, you know, well across the board.
That means offense, defense, special teams. And also you know,
we're not going to have I'm all very young guys
with us to share us on, so you know, when
the defense is out there, we got to make sure
(09:20):
the offense is is cheering them on and pushing them through.
But you know, take care of one another, play for
one another, and I think we'll do just fine.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is Gavin Gerhart, the center for the Cincinnati Bearcats,
getting ready to head to Kansas to take on the
Jayhawks to open up Big twelve play. Gavin, best of
luck on Saturday. And we appreciate the time today, man,
thank you, thank you, Tony. There he is. That is
Gavin Gerhart. Awesome, awesome stuff, Very appreciative obviously of his time.
As we move forward and look to talking more about
(09:52):
the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Kansas Jayhawks.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Tone, do you know where Gavin Gerhart went to high school?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
He went to Xenia, WO, so thank you for not
asking him. Wow that Xenia just put on Sydney last weekend.
He is looking it up while you were talking. He
was also a part of a twenty to notzhering beat
down of Sydney his senior year at Zena ed Xenia.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He's awesome, man, He's such a good player, so smart,
grown man too. You can hear his voice, grown man
and anchoring an offensive line again that has yet to
give up a sack at the college football level. It's
interesting as well. Often and Moe talked about this a
little bit last week, and I'll ask him today as well.
(10:36):
This feels like the swing game for UC, like there
are a lot of unknowns right now. If you look
across the Big Twelve, only ten Big Twelve teams have
played conference games up to this point. Kansas State, West Virginia, Colorado, Baylor,
Utah have all lost. Kansas, Arizona State, Houston, Texas Tech,
(10:57):
and Iowa State have all won byu TCU, UCF U
S Oklahoma State, Arizona yet to play a Big twelve match.
I don't know what to make right now. Kansas State
was a preseason top twenty five team in the Big Twelve.
They have been awful. They're one and three to start
the year, including ohe one in league play. West Virginia
(11:17):
lost not only in league play to Houston, but also
went on the road and lost at OU Colorado does
not look the part. Baylor couldn't tell you much. I
wasn't overly impressed with Utah, who was ranked when they
lost to Texas Tech, and then at the top. I've
watched Iowa State twice, good, not great. I think Texas
Tech is clearly the team right now to beat in
(11:37):
the Big twelve. But if your uc you don't play
Texas Tech in the regular season, the teams you play
two they are three top twenty five teams. Next week
Iowa State comes into town at Knippert BYU at the
end of the year, twenty fifth ranked right now comes
to Knippert And then your last game November twenty ninth
is on the road at TCUID that Austin, Arizona, Utah, Baylor,
(12:04):
Oklahoma State, UCF. There are a lot of games that
I feel like if you look right now are kind
of toss ups and I don't know what to make
about UC yet the Nebraska game. What do you make
in Nebraska? Is Nebraska a good football team? After what
you saw against Michigan they had Nebraska on the ropes,
A bad decision by Brendan swersby who threw for sixty
(12:25):
nine yards in the game, or else they can go
down and win that game. They beat Bowling Green, it
wasn't in convincing fashion. I don't know what you can
take from Northwestern State and then a bye, much like
most at Austin, I think this is the game that
kind of hinges everything. If you win this, you get
momentum against Iowa State, you start talking about making noise
(12:46):
in the Big Twelve. If not, and you don't put
a good performance together, then you think about, okay, are
they gonna start zering two in the conference again? I
think there's just a lot that's going to go into this,
a lot to watch out for. They're gonna go to
Oklahoma State, who just fired Mike Gundy, UCFS here, Baylor's here.
There's just I think there are winnable games on this schedule.
(13:07):
I think the I think the game that this Teeter's
on is is Saturday against Kansas and where they go
from there. I think we'll be fascinating. Let's take that
topic and let's parlay it out into the next conversation
we're going to have with our guy, Keegan nickoson Jiggs
Bearcat Journal dot com. We haven't talked to Kegan in
a while. Let's catch up with him when we come back.
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