UC football scrimmage

The Bearcats ran 50 plays today in a scrimmage situation with referees during the last 35 minutes of practice. John Goebel carried 15 times for 61 yards. Jacob Ramsey had five carries for 39 yards. Dustin Grutza looked good at quarterback, going 5-for6 for 53 yards and one touchdown, a 12-yard strike to Marty Gilyard in the corner of the end zone. Tony Pike also threw the ball well, goinng 6-for-7 for 54 yards and one touchdown, also to Gilyard, this one for 20 yards.

Gilyard caught two passes for 32 yards. Charley Howard, filling in for Marcus Barnett, caught five passes for 36 yards. Howard was just awarded a scholarship this past week.

"Today was really a physical day in terms of running the football," Brian Kelly said. "We were probably 75-25 run to pass. The game of football is still won up front and playing physical, even though we have a reputation that we like to play fast, which we do. But you’ve still got to be able to do the little things up front. That was the purpose of today and we saw some good things. I thought our running backs ran north and south. Last year we thought we got a little too lateral with them. They broke tackles and ran physical. I think our offensive line has shown themselves to be in much better physical condition than they were last year."