CINCINNATI (AP) The schedule makers for the first American Athletic Conference season came up with quite an ending: Louisville at Cincinnati with so much at stake.

Instead, about the only thing at stake on Thursday night at Nippert Stadium will be a big old keg that's the traveling trophy for a long-standing Ohio River football rivalry that's going away after the game.

"Both Louisville and ourselves would love to be undefeated, which we were all counting on at the beginning of the year at this point in deciding the conference championship," Cincinnati coach Tommy Tuberville said. "We still have something to say about it, but we can't control it."