I've talked about this team a bunch in the past. It's a team I always thought was really unlucky to only finish 6-5. It's a team that was consistently competative, loaded on defense and a joy to watch. I firmly believe they were the best Bearcat team of the pre-Brian Kelly era (though Dantonio's last team was probably there by the end of the season as well). Sadly they lost to a top notch Kstate team on a 30 yard pass on the last play, lost a winable game over a top 15 caliber Kansas team, lost to really good Miami and Toledo teams and their one bad performance was a loss to Kentucky. They also beat top 15 caliber VT (shutout on the road) and very good ECU/Southern Miss teams. Fun season.

Bill Connolly over at SB nation is one of my favorite college football writers and he has been going back revisiting various seasons. He was talking about the Nebraska and Northwestern teams from that year, but he included his computer ranking based on the seasons results. Fascinatingly that 6-5 UC team was the 19th best team in the country according to his rankings. Much of their schedule was rated very highly as well (3 top 15, a few others between 20-45). Here is a link if you're interested.

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2016/4/...1461180731

Also...Brad Jackson was the man. and her are some other notables:

Robert Tate, Sam Garnes, Artrell Hawkins, Orlando Smith, Anthony Ladd