Cincinnati fans have delusional reason to think they’ll beat Alabama

When you’re facing a team as good as the Alabama Crimson Tide, you take any advantage you can get. Just ask these Cincinnati Bearcats fans.

The Alabama Crimson Tide are the ultimate juggernaut when it comes to college football. When facing a team this good, you take any advantage that is available to you. That’s exactly what some Cincinnati Bearcats fans are doing.

One Cincinnati fan in particular is celebrating a few “advantages” that are, well, very interesting and also absolutely inconsequential.

Along with comparing Cincinnati’s unblemished 13-0 record to Alabama’s 12-1 record and the ages of both the University of Cincinnati and the University of Alabama, one Bearcat fan decided that having a taller coach might make a difference in this game.

Cotton Bowl: Cincinnati Bearcats fan clings to every possible advantage against Alabama Crimson Tide

Hey, you can’t blame him for bringing up every possible advantage. Beating a Nick Saban-coached Alabama team is tough to do. Few teams ever actually do it.  Why not point out one way the Bearcats might actually be better?

Luke Fickell is a good bit taller than Saban. That’s pretty obvious. Saban is shorter than several of his contemporaries.

And hey, maybe Luke Fickell’s height is the real reason why Saban said Cincinnati would be as tough as any foe the Crimson Tide had faced this season?

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