Cincy with their current coach is going to be pretty good. Therein lies their problem. They also have a small stadium, ~35K, surrounded by campus buildings. They can have a pretty raucus 35K, but they need at least 10 K more seats if they are successful longer term. There are enough OSU rejects for them to field some talented teams.
The better players used to split between Miami(O), Ohio U, Akron, Kent State, and Cincy, now Cincy gets most of them.