No letdown: cincinnati rips temple

Desmond Ridder passed for 259 yards and three touchdowns, Jerome Ford ran for a career-high 149 yards and two more scores and No. 5 Cincinnati followed up its big victory against Notre Dame with a 52-3 rout Friday of Temple in Cincinnati.

The Bearcats (5-0, 1-0 American Athletic Conference) came out somewhat sluggish after their 24-13 victory last Saturday against the Irish, leading only 17-3 at halftime before turning the game into a laugher by outscoring the Owls 35-0 in the second half. They have won 23 home games in a row.

Cincinnati’s defense was strong, too, limiting Temple (3-3, 0-1) to 235 total yards and intercepting D’Wan Mathis once. The Bearcats also held Mathis to minus-9 yards on 11 carries.

minnesota RB out of hospital

Minnesota running back Trey Potts was discharged from a hospital in Indiana where he spent six days after an unspecified medical condition developed during the team’s game last Saturday at Purdue.

The Gophers’ athletic department announced that Potts had returned to Minnesota for follow-up care and said that he was ‘‘doing well.’’

The school declined to divulge any details about what sent Potts, who is second in the Big Ten with 552 rushing yards, to the hospital after he left the game late in the fourth quarter. His last carry went for six yards near the three-minute mark in the Gophers’ 20-13 victory.

covid outbreak at uconn

UConn interim coach Lou Spanos, two assistants and two players tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the team’s game Saturday against UMass.

The Huskies said Spanos, offensive coordinator Frank Giufer, tight ends coach Corey Edsall, senior offensive tackle Ryan Van Demark and freshman offensive lineman Will Meyer are all in a 10-day quarantine but are fully vaccinated and doing well.