As Bearcats prepare for final AAC season, here's the 2022 UC football schedule

Joe Harrington, Cincinnati Enquirer
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Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Luke Fickell looks over a play during a spring practice at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati on Thursday, March 24, 2022.

After becoming the first program outside the Power 5 conference to make the College Football Playoffs in 2021, the Cincinnati Bearcats 2022 season will be its last as a member of the American Athletic Conference.

Yes, the UC football schedule will look a little different in 2023, but the Bearcats, the two-time defending AAC champions, will have one more shot at winning the league it joined in 2013.

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Cincinnati has won three AAC championships (2014, 2020 and 2021) and has gone 14-0 in the league the last two seasons.

In 2021, Cincinnati went 13-0 in the regular season and 8-0 in conference play. The Bearcats defeated Indiana a week before one of the biggest wins in program history, a 24-13 win at South Bend, Indiana against Notre Dame.

This year, Arkansas in Week 1 and Indiana, again, highlight the September non-conference schedule.

What does the full UCschedule look like this year? Here's a look.

UC football schedule 2022

  • Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.: at Arkansas

  • Sept. 10, 3:30 p.m. Kennesaw State

  • Sept. 17, noon: Miami (Ohio)

  • Sept. 24: Indiana

  • Oct. 1: at Tulsa

  • Oct. 8: South Florida

  • Oct. 22: at SMU

  • Oct. 29: at UCF

  • Nov. 5 Navy

  • Nov. 11: East Carolina

  • Nov. 19: at Temple

  • Nov. 26: Tulane*

*Game could be moved to Nov. 25

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati Bearcats football schedule in 2022