Wednesday, February 03, 1999
1999 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Badgers, Buckeyes back to back
BY TOM GROESCHEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
It's not every year that the University of Cincinnati football team faces both the Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl champions, but 1999 will be that year.
UC, coming off a 2-9 season, will face Sugar champion Ohio State and Rose champion Wisconsin. The Bearcats released their schedule Tuesday.
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1999 SCHEDULE
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(Game times TBA)
Sept. 4 KENT 0-11
Sept. 11 at So. Miss* 7-5
Sept. 18 WISCONSIN 11-1
Sept. 25 at Ohio State 11-1
Oct. 2 ARKANSAS ST. 4-8
Oct. 9 at Houston* 3-8
Oct. 16 ALA-BIRM.* 4-7
Oct. 23 Open
Oct. 30 at Miami U.10-1
Nov. 6 LOUISVILLE*# 7-5
Nov. 13 at E. Carolina* 6-5
Nov. 20 MEMPHIS* 2-9
Home games in CAPS
* Conference USA game
# Homecoming
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The Ohio State game, which was announced last summer, will be Sept. 25 in Columbus. It will mark the schools' first meeting since 1931. A four-game contract also has OSU visiting Cincinnati in 2002 (probably at Paul Brown Stadium), then two more games in Columbus in 2004 and 2006.
UC coach Rick Minter was recruiting Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. In a previous postseason meeting with reporters, he addressed the tentative schedule by saying, “No one said life gets any easier.”
UC does have a breather to start with, opening with Kent (0-11 last year) Sept. 4 at home. Then come three straight 1998 bowl teams in Southern Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Ohio State. Another '98 bowl opponent is Louisville.
Alabama-Birmingham, which joins C-USA for football in '99, visits Oct. 16. The C-USA rotation will see Army and Tulane off the UC schedule this year.
Game times will be announced during the spring, once television schedules are determined.
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