By Henry Rawn
Scott Satterfield UC head coach Postgame Press Conference #21 UC 41 Baylor 20 October 25, 2025
Seventh-Straight Win For Bearcats
October 25, 2025
CINCINNATI – No. 21 Cincinnati jumped out to a 24-0 lead, and the defense did the rest by holding the nation’s leading passer to a season-low 137 yards in a 41-20 victory over Baylor on Saturday at Historic Nippert Stadium on Homecoming.
The victory propelled the Bearcats to 7-1 and 5-0 in the Big 12. Cincinnati’s seven-game win streak is its first since the 2021 College Football Playoff season and the Bearcats remain tied for first in the Big 12 with the BYU Cougars (both 5-0 in the league).
Cincinnati star redshirt junior quarterback Brendan Sorsby had 196 total yards and three touchdowns, throwing for two and rushing for one. His final two touchdowns of the game came with less than seven minutes to go, turning a one-score battle into a 21-point triumph.
Sorsby and running backs Evan Pryor and Tawee Walker all rushed for TDs. The Bearcats’ 265 rushing yards were also a season-high.
The Bearcats’ defense was terrific, holding Baylor quarterback Sawyer Robertson to just 137 yards passing. The Bears were the nation’s top passing offense in the country entering the weekend, averaging 334.3 yards per game coming into Saturday. The all-red Homecoming crowd, the stout defensive performance, and the season-best game from the rushing attack had head coach Scott Satterfield pleased with his Bearcats after the game.
“What an awesome atmosphere,” Satterfield said. “I’m really proud of our defense, Coach [Tyson] Veidt and the whole defensive staff put together a game plan to contain the nation’s top passing offense, and what they did tonight was incredible, holding them to 137 yards passing. I can’t say enough about what those guys did, and how well our players executed the plan all week long in practice. I thought he did an outstanding job with that. And then to have our offense to go out there and rush for 266 yards and to control the game that way. We haven’t really won games this year like this, where we won the time possession by 10 minutes. We were controlling the game, running the football, and I thought it was a good game plan to come in and be able to do that, keep their offense off the field.”
Cincinnati scored on its first two drives of the game with Sorsby leading a pair of 10+ play drives and senior running backs Evan Pryor and Tawee Walker both scoring touchdowns.
Senior kicker Stephen Rusnak made field goals from 46 and 36 yards to remain perfect (11 of 11) on the season. He has made 22 straight field goals dating back to the 2024 season at Charlotte.
Robertson kept Baylor in the game, engineering three touchdown drives in between the end of the first half and the start of the fourth quarter.
Baylor’s furious comeback attempt was effectively ended with a fourth-and-one conversion by Tawee Walker from the Baylor 25-yard line with Cincinnati in front 27-20 with 7:05 left in the game.
Two plays later, Sorsby provided the icing on the win when he kept the ball on an option play, juked a Baylor defender, and sprinted 23 yards to the endzone to put the Bearcats ahead 34-20 with 6:13 left.
The Bearcats put a bow on it when Tayden Barnes‘ forced fumble on the ensuing kickoff was recovered by Jiquan Sanks, leading to another Sorsby passing touchdown to Isaiah Johnson three plays later.
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