Cincinnati delivers 1st loss to No. 14 Iowa State

CINCINNATI -- Brendan Sorsby passed for 214 yards and 2 touchdowns, Evan Pryor ran for 111 yards and 2 TDs and Cincinnati utilized a 17-point archetypal 4th to bushed No. 14 Iowa State 38-30 connected Saturday.

The Bearcats (4-1, 2-0 Big 12) bushed a ranked hostile astatine location for the archetypal clip since beating No. 16 Houston 35-20 connected Dec. 4, 2021.

The Cyclones (5-1, 2-1) trailed 31-7 with 1:08 near successful the 2nd 4th earlier rallying to get wrong 8 with 1:56 near successful the game. Cincinnati recovered an onside footwear to extremity the threat.

"It's a antithetic team," Bearcats manager Scott Satterfield said, simply, erstwhile asked the quality betwixt past year's 5-7 squad and this year's roster. "It's antithetic players."

Rocco Becht passed for 314 yards and 2 touchdowns and ran different 2 successful for the Cyclones.

Sorsby's 82-yard touchdown walk to Caleb Goodie successful the 4th fourth was the Bearcats' longest walk play since 2015.

Iowa State, 1 of the slightest penalized teams successful the country, had 5 penalties for 35 yards successful the archetypal half. The Cyclones jumped offside connected 3rd down to widen the Bearcats' opening drive, which led to a 30-yard TD tally from Pryor for the game's archetypal score.

The Cyclones went connected to instrumentality a 17-0 pb astatine the extremity of the archetypal quarter. Becht got the Cyclones connected the committee aboriginal successful the 2nd connected a 14-yard run.

Becht scored connected a 4-yard tally connected the last play of the fractional and past threw an 11-yard TD walk to Brett Eskildsen connected the opening thrust successful the 3rd quarter.

"Rocco Becht is simply a dang warrior. You support looking up and helium continues to marque plays," Bearcats manager Scott Satterfield said. "That is simply a immense triumph for america arsenic we went toe-to-toe with 1 of the champion teams successful the Big 12 implicit the past fewer seasons."

The Cyclones were without 16 injured players, including all-Big 12 antiaircraft backs Jeremiah Cooper and Jontez Williams. They besides were without their apical 2 kickers.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.