Early 2026 Cincinnati Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal to preview Cincinnati’s 2026 season.
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:50) - Vibe Heading Into 2026
(00:01:40) - Play Calling
(00:00:00) - JC French
(00:04:50) - Running Backs
(00:06:30) - Wide Receivers
(00:07:50) - Offensive Line
(00:09:30) - Offensive Name To Know
(00:11:14) - Defensive Changes
(00:13:40) - Defensive Line
(00:15:40) - Linebackers
(00:16:50) - Defensive Name To Know
(00:18:10) - Schedule Breakdown
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore. |
| 0:10.1 | He showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:19.3 | What's going on, y'all? |
| 0:20.3 | Bud Elliott here of the Cover 3 Collegeball a podcast, and this is summer school. |
| 0:23.6 | We're back in for another episode. |
| 0:25.2 | That's my guy, Chad Brendel, of Bearcat Journal. |
| 0:28.1 | Always has a great job covered Cincinnati for us, joins us maybe year three of us getting together on these summer school episodes. |
| 0:34.2 | And, you know, Cincinnati, another winning year last year. |
| 0:37.3 | And, you know, solid season, it certainly could have been better in some areas, you know, Cincinnati another winning year last year and, |
| 0:37.6 | you know, solid season. It certainly could have been better in some areas, but also, |
| 0:41.6 | you know, some hard fought games and some impressive wins on the schedule as well. |
| 0:46.8 | Chad, what would you say is kind of like the general vibe around Cincinnati right now? |
| 0:51.4 | Got to get over the hump. I mean, it's, you know, year three of Scott Satterfield, |
| 0:56.4 | or year four of Scott Satterfield, there's been some incremental progress, and they were on |
| 1:03.0 | the verge of competing for a Big 12 championship last year and then fell apart in November, |
| 1:09.1 | two years in a row now that the bottom has kind of come |
| 1:12.4 | out at the end of the season. So that's kind of the biggest thing for this program right now |
| 1:17.3 | is in order to take the next step, you've got to finish, and they haven't been able to do so. |
| 1:22.7 | So Brad Glenn is gone as the O.C. They're going to go with a co-approach now, I guess. |
| 1:28.8 | Independent of personnel, I mean, I kind of have a hard time seeing a Scott Satterfield team not run, |
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