Defense fails Bearcats in upset loss
October 14, 2007
Ben Mauk held his black helmet in the left hand. He slowly made a fist with his passing hand, then relaxed it. Not once did he look up from the floor of the elevator on his way to a postgame interview. This first loss hurt a lot. Mauk couldn’t make 4 more inches on a fourth-down sneak, a near-miss that became the turning point in Louisville’s 28-24 victory Saturday night that ended Cincinnati’s…

